correct.S. The follow-up care had been a marathon of agony. At first she felt faint.

We haven??t found hide nor hair of her since
We haven??t found hide nor hair of her since. He??s actually in worse shape than you are.?? ??His own shop??? ??He became a consultant in security for industry.?? ??We suspect Chief of Secretariat Albert Shenke. But it??s going to take some preparation. but it would take half the night. The majority were of girls. But you think we should publish a story that might be a lie just because we have no proof that it??s a lie. and through the doors of Central Station as the station clock ticked over to 3.M. and she had severe headaches. to ask her about that ?? even if you??re not present??? ??That??s fine ?? you may ask her questions relating to the police hunt for Niedermann.?? ??O. ??Not much. Whore.44 she heard steps in the corridor and the rattle of the Securitas guard??s key ring. By the time the train went through Nyk?ping he had already discarded a number of drafts. They were sitting at a kitchen table in a white farmhouse called Gosseberga.?? ??Lisbeth is my friend. ??Get on to the Undersecretary of State and the head of the legal department.?? ??You mean the Security Police.?? ??I??m sorry for your wasted journey.

?? ??We??re ready.?? He threw up his hands. Shit. I had a late lunch and was going to make a pasta when I got home. the board will have to find somebody else for August. the car belongs to G?ran M?rtensson. however. Every time she accessed Teleborian??s hard drive she felt as if her body temperature dropped a few degrees. We chatted for a couple of minutes. How? She walked all the way round. It could have been at his home or at his office or somewhere else altogether. you should set off the alarm. I get it. One of Erlander??s colleagues joined them with an update on the hunt for Niedermann. It was absurd. Henry ???? ??Yes??? ??I don??t need them until tomorrow. had been shot and killed at Sahlgrenska hospital in G?teborg.?? Baksi gave Blomkvist a searching look. This was not very informative. ??And what do I get in return ?C if I do co-operate??? ??Nothing. and in A. and according to what I??ve overheard he was shot in the head all three times.

??I know a good therapist. You??d better dress nicely. You could have switched places at any time. In Sweden the task is that of the Prosecutor General or the Parliamentary Ombudsman. Nurse Nicander handed him a cup of tea. That is serious. this is not a joke. listening to her breathing. ??Bj?rck. and examined her to check on her progress. according to the report. He showed Blomkvist the photograph of Evert Gullberg with Colonel Wennerstr?m. in the form of convicts. He was one of the new team. Then we??ll need to hire a new employee. some pathologically obsessed ones who stalked celebrities and looked for love by hiding in woods near their villas.?? ??I must not have realized that it would centre on Salander. it could be a major step forward in your career. Salander switched on her Palm Tungsten T3. three of them around thirty-five years old. But you??re going to have to make up your mind whether to take on the assignment or not.33.

It had upset F?lldin that an important Soviet agent had sought asylum in Sweden. What??s happened to him since I retired??? ??Bj?rck is probably one of the very few internal colleagues who left the Section and went back to external operations.?? ??Those were necessary cuts. That??s why F?lldin sent me to see you.I. ??Before we begin to discuss anything. But that??s just the problem. ??Pull yourself together. And of course it was usually after somebody had given in to such impulses that Inspector Bublanski was called in. of course. It was glorious May 1 weather. Nilsson was not unhappy that she had been passed over. train at Stockholm Central Station.?? ??What sort of burns??? ??I??m guessing a taser.?? said Andersson. After a while the P.?? ??Am I to conclude that you??re running some sort of surveillance on Teleborian??? Figuerola shook her head.?? said Modig. A pro. She needed a weapon.?? he said. ??Blomkvist and Millennium are going to publish it.

??Hello. She reached for the telephone to call him.?? ??It??s very simple.M. and acting very quickly and efficiently.?? ??Curt Andersson.?? ??Cancer??? ??He??s been carrying that gun around for the past six months.?? Figuerola was making notes. the stringer in G?teborg. makes its toilets to sell at 1700 kronor apiece??? Silence fell over the room. That could be explained. Nor do I ask you to tell me a single military secret that Zalachenko may have revealed. had written letters to companies that had placed orders with Fong Soo. Just before 6. But she knew that. Which must have been Edklinth. Cortez frowned and followed Berger with his gaze as she cut across the hall from her office to the kitchenette. That would require us to believe that Salander is innocent. was alive. and who at that moment was sitting in a ditch on the road to Nossebro tied to a traffic sign.E. She put her police revolver in her shoulder bag and picked out a dark-red leather coat.

To Modig??s great frustration the meeting in Ekstr?m??s office was lasting a long time. At 8. He had packed his van on Friday morning and taken the ferry from Dover to Calais. Her intelligence. Then he opened his own shop. Berger had expected the ??Poison Pen?? to strike. ??But I don??t think we could manage that even if we had a whole year. ??So why did you resign from the police force??? Berger said. It was a mark of the sort of greed that did not go down well with the Swedish people in the wake of the revelations about other criminal capitalists such as Skandia??s former president.44 she heard steps in the corridor and the rattle of the Securitas guard??s key ring. First of all. and he wasn??t mentioned in Svensson??s material. I??m beginning to think that I made a colossal mistake taking on the job. There was something in one of the pockets. She had chosen to ignore his existence. I don??t know if it was your father or somebody else in the family who helped him. just that they were the ones who took care of the defector.00 she logged on to Hacker Republic and uploaded the list to Plague. which means the transmitter substance in his nerve synapses doesn??t function.?? Eriksson did not answer the telephone. It was always a matter of details.?? ??Is that so??? F?lldin said.

She took the call. Blomkvist headed into Berger??s ?? wrong. It took ten minutes for the cleaner to work his way over to Adamsson??s spot at the end of the corridor. patients and visitors. ??Forgive me for pointing this out. the IB affair. There was a pile of unopened post that he shoved firmly to one side. I don??t have the faintest idea how to handle it. She would go to Borgsj?. cares about it. Gullberg had just come home and was watching the election coverage on T. he had. Comes from Norrland and is in fact a specialist in crime scene investigation. ??Hmm. Well ?? no wonder the biggest morning daily had recruited her. an academic. ??Waltari. As Blomkvist tried in frustration to manoeuvre his mobile out of the breast pocket of his jacket ?C it proved to be an impossible task with his hands cuffed behind his back. But in the half-staffed Saturday newsroom everything was normal. burglary and receiving stolen goods.?? ??I talked with Dragan today.?? Dr Endrin said.

She thought for a moment. photographers.?? Blomkvist nodded. But there was one policeman dead and another severely wounded on the road to Nossebro. He slowed and turned on his windscreen wipers.P. Edklinth grimaced. Salander has been subjected to a number of infringements of her rights. and in the end the price burden falls on the renters or the taxpayers. There was still much research to be done. It is forbidden to engage in the persecution of an ethnic group. But you already live in a one-bedroom apartment by Danvikstull which your father bought for you twenty years ago. M?rtensson worked in Personal Protection. this Gunnar Bj?rck. he would have regained his strength.?? He smiled at her. cleared her desk.?? Edklinth frowned. who was frequently the lone woman in a male landscape. and we don??t know yet whether it is connected to any known crime in Sweden. No answer. of morphine per hour.

The van was eighteen years old and was not able to go much faster anyway.m.?? ??And in this instance Blomkvist is quite correct. Salander summed up her situation in five lines.?? Ellis went on. He left the firm after ten years and opened his own practice. The really damaging thing was that Borgsj? knew about all this and still went on ordering toilets from Fong Soo Industries.?? said Bublanski in a darker tone of voice. Once he had understood how the telephone network functioned and realized how hopelessly antiquated it was. It was as if he needed a platform. He rehearsed the psychiatric report of 1991 and explained why Salander had become a threat to certain unknown civil servants who had taken it upon themselves to protect the Russian defector. and Trelleborg. then the chief of Secretariat must have approved the decision. After discussing the matter with Fru Berger. They had taken it in turns to drive. It??s four years he??s been with us. Ultimately Zalachenko decided to restructure his entire operation in a new corporation that would be owned by Niedermann and himself.Q. ??Which way is he facing??? Figuerola said. He was a hit man for Russian military intelligence. He had not. and in 1999 he had registered his own company.

??Phenomenally intelligent.?? said Sandberg.?? ??I??m happy to have you as my lawyer.?? ??Very good.?? He nodded curtly once before he went out and locked the door. She took hold of his shirtsleeve.?? ??Hmm. The first hours of her workday had been taken up entirely with meetings. ??Hi.?? ??Good luck.?? she said.G. no??? ??I??ll pay your fee myself.?? Clinton waited. it would mean that the district court finds you not only not guilty. She looked at the officers in sullen silence as they came into her room and pulled up chairs. working at the Karolinska hospital in Stockholm. The front door was unlocked. but nevertheless I don??t want to know any more than I already do about the content of the next two issues. But Trinity and Bob the Dog devoted the best part of a week to identifying and separating out Ekstr?m??s mobile from the background noise of about 200. ??Where are you guys??? ??You said to call when we passed Ikea. He felt that the situation was chaotic and ominous.

Berger thought for while before she replied. She hobbled over to her glass cage and sank into her chair with relief.?? Figuerola??s mobile played out the theme tune from Once Upon a Time in the West. feel the need to get in touch with the police ?C of their own accord. He did this after studying a video from Ekstr?m??s press conference. trying to figure out if this was some puzzling bluff.. it??s you ?? wait a second. and I went to visit my client. But Erika. Henry. She was not allowed visitors and could not even read the newspapers. so that the situation doesn??t get completely out of our control.C.?? ??I must not have realized that it would centre on Salander. Since April he had not even plugged in the broadband cable to his own machine.?? Figuerola said. She was surprised to be alive. Borgsj? is going to be persona non grata.?? Nystr?m said.?? ??Can you tell me what happened this morning??? Giannini related what she had seen and heard and how she had reacted up until the moment she had barricaded herself with Salander in the bathroom. You??ve had an operation and you??re in the intensive care unit.

I have spent years trying to help Lisbeth Salander. ??Nieminen. He did not have anything against the existence of S?po. Then she stumbled up the stairs to the fifth floor and pounded on her friend??s door. that will put the matter in a rather different light. and he dragged himself out of his sickbed to help you.?? ??Does anyone have any information on Lisbeth Salander??s condition??? Blomkvist said. She had tracked him to Gosseberga fully intending to kill him. Our operations chief Johan Fr?klund has been looking into his background. This solution to their multiple problems had presented itself at a time when the Zalachenko unit was on its way to being dissolved. In a word. and for the aggravated kidnapping and assault of the dental nurse Anita Kaspersson. then it was the Constitutional Protection Unit??s duty to react. his alias.?? Zalachenko said laboriously through clenched teeth. She did not want to draw attention to herself by leaving so soon after his unidentified companion. They were sitting at a kitchen table in a white farmhouse called Gosseberga. That way Bublanski would have his hands full for a while. But three hours after she had taken the helm of S.?? He scrubbed her back and soaped her shoulders. Cortez sat on the sofa in Eriksson??s office looking guilty.?? ??First thing is to locate all the copies ???? ??I??ve already done that.

I??m not going to quote you or mention you even in anything I write. had begun his criminal career stealing cars at seventeen. and living in Sk?vde. ??Hello. but he did not know her well. Within a few hours the Section had taken on tangible form. At the bottom of the picture was one word. or parallel to. You wanted a message from the Section. and suddenly there isn??t much time left. We can assume they??re fairly tight-knit. and finally he used flattery to bolster Bjurman??s feeling of importance.?? Modig tilted her head to one side. It suits you somehow. will Millennium??s publication clash with our investigation. importantly. which meant that they had to walk back and forth between the two buildings several times a day. The battering he had been subjected to could only be defined as torture.?? Wadensj?? said.?? Rosin??s seriousness was having an effect.?? ??It??s sensitive. He had also run into him once at the Opera.

?? ??How are you??? ??I??m sick. Otherwise there??s one very large room. and because she probably thought you had your hands full with the Salander story. I??m willing to pay him. The room was easier to guard. except for 1991 when he deliberately voted against the moderates because he believed that Carl Bildt was a realpolitik catastrophe. ??My family. Then they go back to their regular jobs in S. you??ve refused to respond when any psychiatrist has tried to talk to you. She thought for a moment and then went into Armansky??s hard drive. She had reported the matter to the head of her party. Niedermann. where she spent two hours driving herself hard to catch up on lost training time. ??It??s me. Do you understand what I??m saying??? Salander tried to nod. and that the information he provided was invaluable. He had established that pattern as early as April. He had a gun in his hand.?? She paused when she saw out of the corner of her eye that Borgsj? was staring at her.?? She sat down. Nobody has a moment to stop and think. You were injured and you??re waking up after an operation.

?? ??So how is she involved??? ??This is an intricate story. which she had hardly even thought about for fifteen years. ??Take your time. with the Zalachenko report you gave me. You all know our deadlines. This would be her last Saturday lunch at Sahlgrenska. You??re going to need a specialist. was a brand-new form of bandage. she armed herself with the canister of Mace. These pages. ??Police headquarters at 5. ??Mikael. 27.?? Holmberg said. Lisbeth Salander had at the very least been deprived of the opportunity to exercise her constitutionally protected rights and liberties. ??I think he knows that already.?? They exchanged hotmail addresses. In the end he had his own resources to fall back on.?? Gullberg said.8. Zalachenko was a Soviet defector. agents.

calm and collected. you may not speak with anyone but myself and Monica Figuerola. If you say yes. If it hasn??t already happened. She took out her mobile and pretended to make a call. pushed open the door. I know that you??ve worked together for twenty years or so and you??ve had your ups and downs. On the way he passed Zalachenko??s door. Here it??s not a matter of subtle alterations. ??On your way home??? ??You too. Prosecutor Ekstr?m??s weakness was his conviction as to his own importance.M. and she recognized all the signs of a reporter who had a story in the works.?? and a subscription to fashion. He did not need a master??s degree in psychology to know that she was not doing very well emotionally. he??s a threat to us. who. I??d like to have a word in private with you if you have a moment. When they were alone she had asked her why she so provocatively refused to talk to the police. I have Henry. ??Blomkvist ?? we have to be able to trust each other. and we??ll raise any awkward problems at the editorial meetings.

the same in every A. I??m beginning to think that I made a colossal mistake taking on the job. It was an indication that Niedermann was functioning. Finally he lit upon the obvious solution. Those are the ones that prompted the hunt for Salander: the deaths of Advokat Bjurman. Ekstr?m wanted an extensive psychiatric examination and had sent a lot of messages with the object of getting her transferred to Kronoberg prison as a matter of urgency. First she checked her email. Most of all she wanted to take him to a hole in the ground in Gosseberga and bury him. But Nurse Agneta had noticed that Dr Jonasson had spent time with the patient who was under arrest and otherwise seemed withdrawn from the world. and he began to tell F?lldin about the preliminary investigation in which he had been involved for the past few months. He always needed somebody to tell him what he was supposed to be organizing. He quoted from the correspondence between Teleborian and Bj?rck. O. But the investigation proceeded slowly. Then she looked at him. I have to make a call.?? ??Run that by me again. But she did not have the remotest wish to talk about her feelings or her actions. try to support you. He did not even want to begin to estimate how many counts of illegal activity must have taken place. They were to find out if there was any truth to Blomkvist??s story that a man was sitting in a ditch there. but ???? ??You think it??s excessive.

She arrived in Saltsj?baden at 9. But don??t forget that this was during the period when the Soviet Union was collapsing and the K. had been distracted all morning. Yet Blomkvist was right: behind the conspiracy there had to be others not known to her who had contributed to the shaping of her life. nor had Monika Nilsson.?? Jonasson said. and opened the folder of notes from her last conversation with Salander. Set up a meeting with legal at 3. certainly. Erlander knew from long experience that there were plenty of nutters out there.?? ??O. He leaned back and looked ridiculously pleased with himself. that Palme might be an agent of influence for the K. Not once had he seen its driver. but the surplus in the budget was primarily made up of the profits from Blomkvist??s book about the Wennerstr?m affair.P. no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. then we have to produce a smaller newspaper. It??s just that I didn??t want to track you down at work.?? Blomkvist shut his eyes.?? ??Yes. until after the summer.

She had intended to go straight back to S. he called Berger himself. At the same moment she felt intense pain in her left shoulder. ??Evert Gullberg.57 with Clinton in tow. Jonasson made two deep incisions all the way down to the cranium and peeled back the skin round the entry wound.?? ??So you??re saying that Salander isn??t exactly what she seems to be. an elite force that any defence organization in the world would have paid enormous sums to use for cyber-military purposes.M. ??He?? could even be a woman. In practice it was a ridiculous situation ?C Millennium was making a profit.?? or ??Salander??. And it was inexpensive.?? ??I meant every word. She clicked on the bubble and wrote Wasp. Then she got back into the bed and woke Blomkvist. her state of mind??? After a while Karlgren said: ??I??m not sure how I should answer that question.?? Berger said. Annoyed. packed his briefcase and checked out. I was ignominiously ditched earlier today. He pulled out a Palm Tungsten T3.

?? Modig said in apology.?? ??Annika ?? this isn??t the way I had planned to end my time at Millennium. a hand-picked state secretary. At a stroke she eliminated all employees in distribution.?? ??Then we could run it in the June issue??? ??No problem. If you find evidence of criminal activity. Lisbeth??s lawyer ?C you??ve met her I think ?C is my sister. And Edklinth had decided that if criticism were raised. he could do the same. but he says you??ll know what he means. He??s over two metres tall and built like a tank. First. We chatted for a couple of minutes. He had spent ten days there on that occasion and been round the company??s factories.I. The fourth was a copy of Ekstr?m??s email folder made at 2. I won??t ask him to do anything illegal. time to get up. ??Very good. Blomkvist thought. By this time Ghidi had learned Swedish and obtained treatment for his shattered hip. he had openly discussed the matter with County Governor Lassinanti on a visit to Norrbotten.

and that he should have nothing more to do with the matter. There was something in one of the pockets.F. where Clinton rose slowly from the sofa. superficial. which included a short whip. He wore a hound??s-tooth jacket and dark-grey trousers. they ask 10?C 12. In this issue. but he was the last to arrive. The meeting did not end until 7.S. Eventually he put the folder aside. Two are in Syria and my little sister is in Madrid. After a while she managed to pull the sheet and blanket up to her chin. Blomkvist and Giannini ?C until further notice. Then she sat and fumed for a long time until her adrenaline level dropped and it began to sink in that she was going to have to sleep alone in a house without an alarm while somebody was running around the neighbourhood calling her a whore and smashing her windows.?? Cortez repeated. But this was nothing new.U.

??But it??ll cost you a bottle of Cragganmore the next time we go fishing. He reminded Edklinth vaguely of the writer Dashiell Hammett.P.?? ??So what are you planning. But she could scarcely keep her eyes open.P.?? ??How about management??? ??Magnus Borgsj? is chairman of the board. then pay out as much as you want in bonuses.H. Blomkvist had apparently reached the point in his story at which Paulsson had decided to ignore everything else he might say. Figuerola gave her a lead of about thirty metres. Fredrik Clinton. she told him. was to uncover and prevent threats to the internal security of the nation. but stopped short.00 on Saturday night. ??The outline story is pretty much correct.S. The follow-up care had been a marathon of agony. At first she felt faint.