she did not want to go to hospital. he was unwilling to name his source.S.

now retrained as a locksmith
now retrained as a locksmith. ??And to be able to persuade him to keep his mouth shut. and he seemed unconcerned with prestige.?? Figuerola said.?? Edklinth said.?? ??Understood. She was once more without a weapon. is it??? ??Hardly. in effect) that the decision to lock you up in St Stefan??s in 1991 was a legitimate one. They have no record of a Jonas Sandberg on their staff. and some cash. on the dot. and Edklinth realized that Armansky??s people not only had the skills for the job. There was only one option left that was constitutionally correct.?? ??Zalachenko??s daughter.G. It??s cheap and far below what I would charge if I took the job for Milton. thinks that Bjurman raped Salander. ??So. He accepted that there was something known only as S. I??m a trained bodyguard. the visit lasted precisely nine minutes.

?? ??Yes. ??Thanks for talking to me.?? ??No.?? ??Micke.?? said Holmberg. for the first time in a long time. As soon as you see him approach a car. ??I have to tell you that your father has made a formal accusation to the police stating that you tried to murder him.. He was in his thirties. The police had carried out a search. She also knew that he could accept any number of idiocies from his friends. Salander bit her lip.?? ??It??s about Lisbeth Salander??s future and wellbeing. There really was a conspiracy inside S. ??We also have Peter Teleborian. Jesus ?? it??s wonderful that she got the job.?? ??How the hell do we make something disappear that??s been plastered all over the media??? Nystr?m said. I met them about twice a year during the time I worked for the government. And then she called to say that Teleborian and somebody called Jonas were meeting at Central Station this afternoon.M. If the attack alarm is sounded.

He??s gathering information and is going to expose M?rtensson. He hovered between life and death for several weeks. By tomorrow morning I want a document drawn up granting the Constitutional Protection Unit extraordinary authority to act in this matter. he exploited his hold over them to the maximum. For the past few weeks he had been loaned to Counter-Espionage. ??You??re right. Fredrik. Then she checked the hard drives of Ekstr?m (some routine correspondence about the trial) and Teleborian. I??m sorry ?? in the rush I forgot to let you know.?? ??It??s a hell of a dilemma. 1. friends from dozens of skirmishes with the Enemy.?? ??I couldn??t help reading in the papers that you??re mixed up in this Salander story. we want you and your husband to be aware of certain things and to take certain routine measures. Or. Bingo. ??Simply stated. Do you get along with her??? ??She??s alright. Before he scrubbed up and put on his operating clothes he sent for Nurse Nicander.se>??? ??That isn??t a valid address at S. ??I know exactly who you are. Sandberg looked at Zalachenko for a moment.

He began by making coffee and sandwiches before he went into Salander??s office and booted up her PowerBook. He seemed to be interested only in how her muscles were working. ??I know. Salander was sulky and often just silent. who were all asleep. ??Hans Faste. The Zalachenko folder. It won??t be over then.?? She fell silent and stared at Annika. Cortez sat on the sofa in Eriksson??s office looking guilty. My prognosis is that the third quarter will produce a significant loss. June is a double issue. Some day.?? ??With regard to this girl Salander ???? the Minister of Justice began. You have an infection in your body. he??s the link to the past. which would ensure that the exchange was common knowledge in no time. He checked her chart and saw that she was free of her fever. He had been killed. If he dug in his heels. He wished Sandberg had ordered Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes and lingonberries.?? ??Yes.

It was Millennium??s scoop.M. on the other hand. I was never privy to the details.?? ??Right. contacted the G?teborg police just two hours after the murder and gave them information about Gullberg??s threatening letters. F?lldin was never told Zalachenko??s name. but she expressed in a thousand other ways her dissatisfaction with how things stood.K. He bought the G?teborgs-Posten. He was not going to mention the fact of Bjurman raping her. She hasn??t regained consciousness yet.. he already had enough material to set off a landslide of headlines.?? Figuerola said. said. What general impression did you get of her nature. She did not expect that he would be quite so interested now that the Svensson murder was solved and he had got his story. They??re the last people he??d want to run into. She considered the doctor??s words. her husband.?? She paused when she saw out of the corner of her eye that Borgsj? was staring at her.

I??m a part-owner ?? it??s going to be viewed as???? ??I know exactly how it??s going to be viewed. He was there without warning. his chest hit the coffee table. It was a code that Kalle Bloody Blomkvist had been forced to work out when he got into her apartment on Fiskargatan uninvited and tripped the burglar alarm. Holmberg??s father was a city councillor for the Centre Party in the ??70s.?? Edklinth said.?? ??I can??t accept that. Bj?rck was moved from his post within the Immigration Division to a desk in the apartment in ?stermalm.?? Eriksson said. but the surplus in the budget was primarily made up of the profits from Blomkvist??s book about the Wennerstr?m affair. An A. ??So what??s this visit all about then??? Holmberg looked out of the window and saw a magpie land next to his car and peck at the ground. And for it to be worth the cost.?? ??What do you think the chances are that this isn??t a stalker but somebody I know who wants to fuck with me??? ??What??s the difference??? ??To me a stalker is someone I don??t know who??s become fixated on me. I??d give a lot of money to find out what they talked about. He was one of the officers responsible on formal occasions for the safety of the Prime Minister.?? ??Alright. But exactly how it was done I don??t know. We??ve discussed how we can help you. to shoot you too??? ??I have no way of knowing. off balance.?? Plague gave him directions to the youth hostel on L?ngholmen where he had booked a room for his colleagues from England.

He did not want to do it at the hotel where he had been staying. The image was pornographic: a naked woman with exceptionally large breasts. She was a computer expert. of course.?? Edklinth took off his glasses and polished them thoroughly with paper napkin. She got back into her car and wrote down both the registration and telephone numbers for Lars Faulsson. She went into the room and closed the door. He??s charming.?? Malm threw up his hands.).?? ??Precisely.?? ??Foreign policy??? the Minister of Justice said.?? ??Correct.?? ??So I start by getting the person who recruited me fired. Nilsson frowned. At the same time he??s a bastard of exceptional proportions. As things stood.G.?? ??This sounds fun. ??I??m sorry. no question??? ??Yes. the conspiracy ?C if it was one ?C had to be a tacit agreement that had developed naturally.

??Trained as a navy frogman and then attended the police academy in the early ??90s. other than the parts that concerned the conspiracy against her ?C Giannini needed help with those. That part of the story focused on the deaths of Svensson and Johansson ?C what they were working on. You??ve done a great deal more. the attack on Annika.N. Teleborian got up abruptly and took his leave. It was 2. She risks being charged with grievous bodily harm or attempted murder. but the figure kept slipping away. In a well-ordered world he would be at home in Gosseberga now. nutters who had the gift to read messages hidden from the normal world. Landskrona. He hoped it had not penetrated her lung. a hand-picked state secretary. he began to recover. And the reasoning among the board was to bring in the most improbable editor-in-chief they could think of. But it??s a good question. If you want to initiate any psychiatric treatment of her. The focus has shifted to Niedermann. he switched to being a private security consultant.I.

??Excuse me.?? Giannini repeated. Salander pressed her lips together and looked at the screen of her handheld. who in turn must decide whether charges should be brought. He opened the entrance door using the code and took the stairs to the top-floor apartment. and it might also be illegal. He had found a roll of duct tape and this he had used to close the wounds.M.?? Blomkvist said again.?? ??So soon??? He nodded. it??s not certain that anyone would believe him. Modig had to take the question. The other had screamed ??fucking nigger?? several times at the manager and forced him to lie on the floor. and through Niedermann he was the architect of the murders of Svensson and Johansson. made a simple dinner. and in some miraculous way he had indeed managed to hold the mortality rate at zero. Spain. that he might attract attention.?? ??Don??t call me crazy. He??s been running his own criminal network ever since. I saw him four or five times. and second.

Inspector Monica Figuerola. ??I spent the whole afternoon going over Henry??s documentation. Between 1991 and 1996 he worked for the Stockholm police. The computer started up. but the fact is we could have sent her home the same day. Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word. She looked around the room. because Gullberg had made specific death threats against Karl Axel Bodin. She sat bent over spreadsheets of Millennium??s budget and was so engrossed that Anton. Nothing unusual about this. even though this time there was no strap holding her down. My husband will be home in a couple of days. Just let??s see if you understand this message.?? ??Of course. She could go back to Stockholm knowing that she might have to take the train to G?teborg again as soon as the following day. ??Could I have a word??? They went together to the coffee machine in the canteen. The letters landed on his desk in the morning. ??And you have seen her only for a short period when she has been forced to be passive because of her injuries. ??I have to know what happened in G?teborg. but Lisbeth tracked down her father whom she hadn??t seen for fifteen years. In Personal Protection they believed that M?rtensson had been loaned out to Counter-Espionage.?? ??Blomkvist thinks there??s a faction within S?po.

v Blomkvist left the Millennium offices at 10. but not a paranoid sociopath. I want you to focus on the follow-up care given to severely injured patients in corridor 11C.?? ??Does anyone know about Torstensson??s condition??? asked one of the inspectors from Violent Crime. Edklinth shot her a glance. but he??ll try to get out of the country as soon as he can.??s now not-so-secret mistress and pictures from a party in Hollywood in which he could be seen snorting cocaine. ??I hear what you??re saying.?? ??How the hell can he know Zalachenko??s daughter ?? that sounds like too big a coincidence. I work in the Violent Crimes Division here in G?teborg. advertising. And her sexual preferences are nobody??s business.S. How should I deal with it??? ??I don??t have the energy to think that through right now. this year you will be paying out a huge amount of money in dividends to the paper??s twenty-three shareholders. It had taken him all day to work out that her room was two doors down the corridor to the right. the signature of the Prime Minister meant that he had sanctioned the need for a unit that would be responsible for ??internal personnel control??. which has Bj?rck instructing Teleborian to falsify a mental examination. ??And this is a person that you say you can trust??? ??An individual of the highest moral standing. Henry. ??This is an untraceable hotmail address. He walked to Dressman on Kungsgatan and bought a shirt and a change of underwear.

I was told to file a report at the local station. I??ll come back and see you before you??re transferred. A nice-looking man.?? Salander gave Giannini a sharp look. but there did not seem to be any single institution.S. Well. ??There??s nothing whatsoever to suggest a crime. Monica??? ??We??re following up on the robbery of the grocer??s in Sunne. She spectacularly kicked the shit out of two complete thugs from Svavelsj? M.?? ??I know. overtook the unit. Edklinth did not believe in coincidence on such a grand scale.?? Nystr?m leafed through his notes. ??That??s correct. He is correctly quoted.?? Blomkvist gave her a wan smile. Blomkvist printed out the 220 pages of the manuscript that were finished. She called her friend on her mobile.?? ??Social Democrat??? Gullberg said. ??We started with two. It was inconvenient because the police intranet was at headquarters.

Alexander Zalachenko. He felt a sudden tenderness. What I??d like to know is when you mean to publish your article.?? ??He didn??t. But someone else has.G.00. Berger did not care if Borgsj? was or was not chairman of the board of Vitavara Inc. Then she went down to Hornsgaten and hailed a taxi.?? ??That would be a mistake. ??Good evening.?? ??What condition??? Sp?ngberg said sharply. Fransson closed the folder that held all the preliminary investigation papers. It will be needed in connection with the trial. It did not work. I didn??t want it to. Full stop. can only pursue recommendations forwarded to them by other departments. and clocked out. the footnotes often referred to articles in the evening newspapers. She sent him the access codes for S. he would have known how to tie proper knots.

The prosecutor??s office offered him legal assistance in the form of a public defence lawyer. His injuries seem to be similar to those of a car crash victim ?C it??s hardly credible that anyone could do such damage with his bare hands: a broken leg. and explained how a policeman??s death was a needless catastrophe because Niedermann had already been shackled. Although. She spent a while limping around the living room. she thought. Both Holger and I have accepted your plan and are co-operating with you. is it??? ??Hardly. but she knew he had broken completely with people who had previously been close friends because they had done something that he regarded as beyond the pale. The shot in Lundin??s foot must have happened after she kicked him. The man would always nod politely but never laughed if he said anything humorous. ??What??? ??Svavelsj? M. On the other hand. That means that I work for you and not for anyone else. ??You don??t have any pain in your neck??? he said. He was not looking at her.S.?? Modig nodded.Monday. If Sweden had a constitutional court. I??ve never heard mention of this ?? what you call the Zalachenko club. The other seemed a bit older.

But he had seen M?rtensson go in through the front door of his building. Was he exaggerating? Should she dismiss his professional caution? In that case.A. and she might live to be a hundred. and they??re evacuating a ward for acutely ill and injured patients who really ought not to be moved. Ekstr?m is the head of the preliminary investigation ???? ??But Bublanski??s leading it. He had also gathered that she was polite to the rest of the staff but never said a word when the police came to see her. if he walked into the corner of a table or a bench. she hit back and threw a Molotov cocktail at him as he sat in his car. But the surgeon says he has high hopes that she??ll survive. They introduced themselves only as Stefan and Anders. which has Bj?rck instructing Teleborian to falsify a mental examination. In other words.?? He tapped on the screen with a pen.?? ??And what did you tell her??? ??I said that someone had faked your address and is obviously harassing her.00??? ??That??ll be fine. Her foot was throbbing painfully. We have to suppose that he switched vehicles. The chief of S. She was taken completely by surprise when the door opened and Faste came out. Blomkvist was suddenly awake and he did not know why. Do you see what I mean??? ??Yes.

and not some celebrity chasing headlines. Finally he inserted narrow forceps with serrated jaws. and throw a brick through the window. You have no idea. accompanied by his personal nurse. ??Peter told me that you got an email from me. who was also a temp. as well as certain guarantees. ??God damn it. Probably he would go to Tallinn. It was 2. She could use the socket inside the bedside table to charge up the Palm during the day. You??ve been damned good as assistant editor. Five minutes later she propped herself up on her right elbow.K. ??He defected during the F?lldin administration.?? ??Drottninggatan heading north.?? ??O.P.?? Berger got up and went to the door. Then the assassin??s shots rang out on Sveav?gen and the matter became irrelevant.00.

The battering he had been subjected to could only be defined as torture. Gullberg took a taxi to Frey??s. But let??s not lose hope altogether.?? ??But how did Bjurman get involved??? ??Palmgren had a stroke in the autumn of 2002. but he wanted to go and see them to get their approval. I??m not holding back anything that could be useful to your investigation of the Section or throw light on the various crimes that have been committed. for God??s sake. but she had very straightforwardly conceded that she had no authority to interview him and that naturally he was perfectly free to tell her nothing at all if he did not want to. ??Hello there.?? ??And did any of them buy it??? ??Yes. He hesitated for a long time.?? Berglund said.00 that I can??t postpone. ??As the situation stands.?? ??I understand that. But the nurses would know.?? They all took stock of their colleague??s plight for a few moments until Sp?ngberg turned to Erlander.?? ??But I am. Somebody must have made that decision. She was just reaching out to shut down her computer when her I.?? she said. Then he sat on the edge of the bed and untied the strings of her nightshirt.

?? Sellberg looked rather startled. By 12. When he returned she had just finished her call.?? ??She had an operation soon after she was brought in and was awake in the early evening. but she has obvious delusions with distinct paranoid schizophrenic characteristics. And that leads to one or two disagreeable conclusions.?? Figuerola nodded. stopped at the desk of the new assistant chief of Secretariat. That was almost three weeks. So you remember what happened. and because she probably thought you had your hands full with the Salander story. I was in the police for six years and I??ve worked at Milton for four. The hopes for a breakthrough. Maybe he??ll talk. and Zalachenko had avoided paying taxes on them.?? ??Good. And if anyone starts asking awkward questions. And it had to happen sooner or later. Objectively. Then he called Dragan Armansky.T. And then he remembered that she had left Millennium.

almost all) agreed had an indispensable value. locksmith Teleborian had been hired by S. ??Do you know what I??d like to do now??? she said.?? Giannini understood Dr Jonasson??s reasoning. S.?? ??What about it??? ??Couldn??t you get me a pizza??? ??Sorry. promising to make it up to him as soon as she could get home. ??I think it??s time we had a discussion in peace and quiet to try to make sense of this mess.?? Armansky said. Blomkvist nodded. ??You??re here on a temporary basis. But Lisbeth has enemies.?? ??This means that if you have questions about something.I. Karl Axel Bodin Inc. and take the day off sick. and in a few days we??ll present an assessment that we??ll go over with you. All the company??s secrets and emails ?C along with some fake documents that might lead people to think that its C. overtook the unit. ??I can prove my assertions. But Dragan ?? we??re talking about the Swedish Security Police. Now.

But the majority of the workers are convicts. Hitler salute. 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. along with a laboriously crafted personal history ?C a fictitious but verifiable background in Swedish records. He lit a cigarette. She was pleased and thanked me for taking the trouble. But don??t forget that this was during the period when the Soviet Union was collapsing and the K. then said. This guarantees the inalienable right to say aloud. Exactly how high up the conspiracy went he had no idea. They??re sitting in the Tre Remmare pub on Vasagatan by the stairs down to the Akalla line. entry wound.?? ??It??s no guess. ??But it??ll cost you a bottle of Cragganmore the next time we go fishing. then he pulled up the visitor??s chair. & M. ??Yes.?? ??So you want to cut your own salary? Is this some sort of wage-communism you??re advocating??? ??Don??t bullshit me. or resign from S. Henry. She had told Giannini everything that had happened in Gosseberga.?? ??Can you prove that??? ??I can.

?? Cortez said. and he has a very painful facial wound. Who would do it ?? you? But she has to disappear. ??So what you??re saying is that the medical assessment of Salander is correct??? ??Oh yes.?? There was impatient muttering around the table.?? Blomkvist said. And the reality is that over the past fifteen years.K. nor did she want their jobs ?C that was the last thing she wanted. and opened the windows in anticipation of his guests?? arrival. to think things over. You know I??m not a criminal lawyer.?? ??Hello. In the midst of all this mess he??s like a hand grenade with the pin pulled. The first had been extraordinary ?C Counter-Espionage had identified a Russian informer inside the Swedish telecom industry. Welcome. This happened because Bublanski had repeatedly tried to get hold of Bj?rck. Then she considered whether she wanted Niedermann caught or not. that will put the matter in a rather different light. Blomkvist calls them ??the Zalachenko club??. In any event she has to have a lawyer. On the other hand.

Hans von Rottinger was always a pleasant chap. Mikael doesn??t know anything about it either. logically organized. had lost upwards of 60 per cent of its assets with G?ransson??s death.I.58 a. ??First-class research. and they were well versed in the art of contriving viruses.?? ??I??ve been in touch with the Prosecutor General. His real name is Alexander Zalachenko and he??s Lisbeth??s father.?? Ekstr?m had a dozen questions that Nystr?m meticulously noted. Then she looked more closely at the computer and saw the little scratch on the top left corner. when suddenly he became assistant director.?? ??Shall we take it from the top??? Berger said. In this way Plague could also monitor outgoing calls from Ekstr?m.??s hierarchy. Berger stared in fascination at the screen as her computer slowly rebooted. ??If his plan was to go to Germany ?? Why would he drive to Stockholm? Shouldn??t he have made for Malm? and the bridge to Copenhagen.?? ??You said there was no rush. she did not want to go to hospital. he was unwilling to name his source.S.