that Blomkvist said. He had no idea how long the car had been in his neighbourhood. ??I was just thinking ???? Andersson stopped. Finally.

That was almost three weeks
That was almost three weeks.?? he snapped.?? ??So. It??s more serious than that. ??And how did you know that this meeting was going to take place??? ??I have to protect my source. but he??s usable. and there??s been such turmoil here that I buried it. I have all the documentation. I won??t make any record of your answer and I won??t discuss it with anyone else. It was not until an hour later that Eriksson knocked on Berger??s door.??s glasses. According to our documents. I??ll even arrange for somebody to carry you back and forth on a stretcher if necessary. possession of illegal weapons. contain nothing remarkable.?? ??Lisbeth???? ??Wait. It felt as if it was the first time in weeks that he had even been to his office. I believe that Salander is as sane as you or I. The headaches that had tormented her after surgery had subsided and came back only sporadically. Malm wanted to know what had happened in Gosseberga. He has been retired for fifteen years. But this was not going to be of any help to Salander.M.

All that is nonsense.?? ??Media??? Modig asked.30.?? she said. It was not a skilled collage. When. If the situation had been reversed ?C if S. ??This whole story is going to be published very soon.?? ??Palmgren??? ??Yes. ??You??ve recovered nicely. I understand Mikael??s plan. Gullberg. As a lawyer who mainly represented abused women without any great financial resources. You said it yourself: we have to trust each other. But what happened in 1991 did not make sense. as like as not.?? She pointed. He happened to know Figuerola??s father and had followed her career over the years. terribly sorry. Can you open your eyes again??? She opened her eyes to narrow slits. or he can do something else. I got a message that you were looking for me.?? Figuerola said.

?? ??Understood. She jumped out of bed so fast that she felt a pain in her injured hip.?? Eriksson said.M. calamity would be inevitable. He specified a dozen commonly occurring words. Then it??s a medical matter. this would have been hard to avoid.?? ??Thank you. The same is true of S?po. He had never been arrested.?? ??But if the K. as I gather. is it??? ??No.K. Zalachenko was technically an immigrant. I need you to take command.?? said Ekstr?m. and in your bedroom. Berger had been a boss she could always rely on. He went down to the hotel??s breakfast room.?? she said. She got up.

we no longer have access to the report. He defected and was granted asylum by S?po. we??re sure that Niedermann switched vehicles.?? Ellis said. So she??s read it too. Do we have any evidence to the contrary??? Modig thought for a few seconds before she replied. Figuerola decided not to pay for a ticket.?? ??This is serious. I??m here for Bj?rck??s S?po report. As far as I can work out. * Salander handed back the mobile to Dr Jonasson. But intelligence officers never really retire. But Blomkvist was a man in the public eye. He was on duty until 6.M. He had offered credentials to indicate that he worked for S.?? ??Not on your life. ??I have to think about this for a while. but rather that he was an especially cunning and intelligent spy who was not tempted to make the same mistakes that other Soviet spies had made. Salander was twelve years old and had tried to kill her father ?C it would have been very strange if that shocking event had not resulted in a psychiatric report. Three times Paulsson had asked the urgently occupied medical orderly whether the girl could be arrested on the spot.?? ??Thirty-one employees. He??s fearless and shows promise.

?? One of the detectives from G?teborg said: ??What have we found at the farm in Gosseberga??? ??We found four revolvers. and he seemed unconcerned with prestige.?? When Salander woke up it was 2. Right now I just feel like shit. Henry Cortez answered. Thomasson knew that the money came from criminal activity. I don??t doubt that there are excellent people working in S?po. it must have a special meaning for her. But from a purely political standpoint. The plane landed at Schiphol airport at 4. This time they failed. and S. Then she considered whether she wanted Niedermann caught or not. even if he was beginning to get an idea of what he was up against. and underwear. We??re so secret that we don??t exist. so it was not easy to prove that his work was a fabrication. I don??t want you underfoot if there??s any trouble. a coup has taken place. sixty-three. ??Can I share information with you and discuss things with you without the risk of your leaking it to the police or to anyone else??? ??I can??t get involved in criminal activity. her blood pressure. There was a confused atmosphere in the newsroom throughout the afternoon.

C.. it means that a group of officers within S. ??I don??t know. Fuck you.I. we have to be decisive and resort to tough measures. I want to approve everything we publish on that topic.C. Seven letters had been sent to Vitavara Inc.?? ??If he took the morning ferry. Then her I. The articles they turn out are terrible. Whether they??re right or wrong. and he hacked his first computer when he was thirteen. Kalle Bloody Blomkvist was complicating life for her. Zalachenko scrutinized him for fifteen seconds. Blomkvist took a chance. piecing together what had happened overnight. that her hair was one big lump of dried clay. Niedermann must have bloodied his knuckles pretty badly during the beating. To do that I have to have something to work with. which normally he hated.

Come with me. Above all. ??I??ll make sure you get some painkillers in a minute. of course. We??ll have to keep an eye on both of them. Least of all the politicians.?? ??Did he remember who it was??? ??It was Bertil K. But after a few months he was always back with the Salander woman. Do you understand what I mean? She opened the archive in [Idiotic_Table]. Malm and Armansky. but for security reasons almost the whole team was moved out of police headquarters to an eleven-room apartment in ?stermalm that had been discreetly remodelled into a fortified office. At 2.?? ??And did you??? ??I went upstairs and borrowed some copies of Nature magazine and The New England Journal of Medicine. When we get to that courtroom the prosecutor won??t have a single syllable from any interrogation to fall back on. The tone she used with him was polite. or at least in her lawyer.?? ??Go on. Niedermann must have bloodied his knuckles pretty badly during the beating.C. May I ask ?? who among you was Morander??s closest confidant??? A brief silence followed as the staff looked at each other. why they were killed. and that was followed by a spate of disparaging remarks about Wasp??s mental abilities. The arrow entered at the outside edge of her left eyebrow and went straight through her head.

Who??s going to talk next? What do we do if Bj?rck signs an affidavit confirming his story? And Clinton.?? ??Andersson is a tough customer.S.30 she made Berger call S. She was given crutches and took a taxi home. It was beautiful and well done. and telecommunications. ??The police didn??t get hold of Bj?rck??s report by themselves ?? they got it from a journalist. She was not responsible for appointing a guardian who turned out to be a pig and a rapist. On the other hand. and Bublanski was feeling an intense desire to reach out and grab the copy of The Law of the Swedish Kingdom that lay on the edge of Ekstr?m??s desk and ram it into the prosecutor??s face. And you can still spend nine hours every other day on dialysis.?? ??Well.S. She rang for the nurse and asked for another Tylenol. Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. but what the hell are we going to do??? ??Malin??s going to be acting editor-in-chief starting with the next issue. ??Trained as a navy frogman and then attended the police academy in the early ??90s. For us it??s important to bear in mind that this is a case of criminal activity perpetrated by a small number of individuals. ??I read Bj?rck??s S?po report this evening. starting from now. It??s not something I can influence.?? ??I??m driving.

somebody had gone into her bathroom and taken Millennium??s material about Vitavara Inc. In any normal situation she would have knocked on the door. ??No. has been to see me twice in the past few days. ??Not a thing. Fru Berger. My father??s a member of the Centre Party and knows F?lldin well.10 he took the tram to Angered and got off in the centre of town. accompanied by his personal nurse. and I won??t discuss my patient. The situation is as follows: The police haven??t found your apartment and don??t have access to the D. As the situation is now. It also laid down that information about Zalachenko would not leave the Prime Minister??s office. and apart from a couple of hour-long stops along the way. I have let it be known that our Zalachenko documents are gone. Kista.?? ??I don??t know how we??re going to bill this???? ??We??ll work that out later. He knew that he had been married and had children. With all good intentions. Armansky found this entirely contradictory. In the end she had to admit that the folder was gone. And that??s why we sent Inspector Figuerola to invite you to this meeting. ??Probably not.

Inspector Paulsson had started out with a relatively manageable situation: now he had a murdered policeman and an armed killer on the run. so we??re all square.T.?? ??Bodin ?? Zalachenko is as slippery as an eel and he has an answer to all our questions.M. She wondered why she.?? Blomkvist said. When she left her office she locked the door.K. He flew across Klarabergsgatan between a bus and two cars. He had not said a word about the Wennerstr?m story either ?C not even Berger had known ?C but this time he had two confidants. As far as Millennium is concerned. did not have any teenagers on its staff. ??Can you explain what prompted her to do that??? ??You would have to ask my daughter. but I??ve been worried sick all night. Otherwise what sounds like a cross-section of middle-class Sweden.K. but it??s the research we??re after.?? ??It??s not our case any more. What makes you ask such a dramatic question??? ??It??s prompted by a dramatic and extraordinary request. If she did not find anything of interest in that group. Andersson. against or the attempted murder of Zalachenko.

After Salander??s attack on Zalachenko. She had nothing specific to work on. A police officer attached to S?po also saw to it that Salander was locked up in a children??s psychiatric clinic. but he had established that it occurred on the afternoon of April 12.?? Nystr?m said. according to the report. Salander got up from the edge of the bed and went to the window. It has to stay that way. A number of pictures were of infants. It could be scar tissue as a product of the healing process. But he was still alive.?? ??And he wouldn??t try anywhere connected to Svavelsj? M.?? ??I understand. she was a psychopathic mass murderer. I couldn??t turn it down. Opinions should be reserved for the editorial page. After a while she pinged Blomkvist on I. Formally. You didn??t say a word about it at the two o??clock meeting. I think you??re an excellent reporter. next to the lift doors. She waited until the night nurse had been and gone. You know you have to call and tell me if you??re not coming home.

gentlemen. My problem is that I don??t believe it. that he was co-operating. We??ll leave it at that. There is substantial documentation. the country might survive. so I??ll stay out of it.?? ??Which is??? ??I??m an investigative journalist. and a dozen other markers. Blomkvist briefly explained what had happened and asked Cortez to pass the information to Millennium??s editor-in-chief. this trial is going to turn on who uses the toughest methods. ??I know exactly who you are. He made sure he had left clear fingerprints on each sheet. we have to keep tabs on all three of them ?C Berger. She found correspondence between Teleborian and a person with a hotmail address who sent encrypted mail. He??s murdered at least three people with his bare hands and he??s built like a tank. it could turn out to be a disaster. But they had never worked together. ??I don??t know what the restaurants are like in S?der. We expected her to be away for much longer.?? Jonasson unlocked the door and ushered the visitor in. She looked at her husband and her friend. ??Do you know why I became a doctor??? he said.

then I have to explain why they??re wrong. When they got to the room they undressed. The robber was waiting for her inside the stairwell at 6. The immediate reason for calling the press conference was that he wanted to deny the rumours already being circulated in the media. You operate. is he out of the country? What do we think??? ??We have nothing to tell us that he has left the country.?? ??Forgive me for mentioning this. ??You could take this as a complaint from the staff. G?ransson. and I watch only the news on T.?? Berger smiled. no-one else??s.?? Linder said: ??There is something to that. She recognized him as the other man Malm had photographed outside the Copacabana on May Day. She had no criminal record.C. The next day it would take less. he had become involved.00 on Tuesday morning. He thought for a long while and then began to write. But that??s not why I called.?? ??That sounds good.?? ??But we may have a problem.

staring at the chair Teleborian had been sitting in. ??The staff would like to have a word.?? ??Was it true??? Wadensj?? shrugged.P.P. She signalled and headed off a couple of pedestrians who tried to sneak across even though their light was red. She had a taser.?? Modig said. What we??re going to do in this book is to state what happened.Q. Then she heard the voice quite clearly. She felt far from rested. limped back to the bed. ??Dag??s book went to the printer yesterday. That investigation is presently allocated to S?dert?lje. Accordingly. Angleton??s gang were as fanatical as they were paranoid ?C they suspected everyone in the C. she fumed. She got up. She was home by 7. If he decided to fight. He defected and was granted asylum by S?po. close to the corner of Olof Palmes Gata.

One nurse had merely said in a neutral tone that her condition was stable. shut down its civil service desk some years ago.?? Blomkvist thanked him and took a taxi to City Hotel on Lorensbergsgatan.?? Nieminen shut his eyes for ten full seconds. ??How am I doing??? she said. Micke. Zalachenko laboriously got up and fumbled for his crutches. And Criminal Inspector Faste is an unadulterated idiot who believes that Salander is a lesbian Satanist. The prosecutor is going to go on about this being the second time you have tried to kill him. It must have been backed by the government. Now that he had crutches. Everything she had written was true. the Minister of Defence or any other member of the government to be informed. She had no intention of doing that. it seems. but my boss.?? Bublanski leaned forward.?? ??Why did S.L. That was all Ghidi had to do. Seven individuals who over the coming years would constitute a special Section within the Section. Some of them concerned how he should present Salander in the articles.?? Beckman was completely O.

??Because while Niedermann was out digging a grave for me. Erika. I couldn??t swear to it. She was starting to get restless and felt like an intruder. She already knew that however she dealt with it. He could be in Oslo by now. who was murdered in your hospital ?C was a Soviet defector. I too think Blomkvist is a man we could work with. and that committing her in 1991 was justified. could decide to put S?po??s top bosses under the microscope. and carried him to the stool. but there were periods when she had. ??I have met Mikael Blomkvist on several occasions in the course of this investigation. Gullberg began to believe that Zalachenko was not quite right in the head. I don??t know how much you understand of what is happening outside your locked room. She had been an outstanding gymnast in her teens and almost qualified for the Olympic team when she was seventeen. ??I think it??s time we had another talk with Justice. She had a headache again. Which means that there was some degree of contact between the two of them while Salander was on the run. & E. ??Do as I say and the Section might survive. But I??m beginning to suspect that this Zalachenko club is out of house. But unlike the McDonald??s example.

I mean Alexander Zalachenko.?? Blomkvist told her the details of the story that Cortez had compiled.?? ??I??m only too happy to hear it. He knew he was being watched from the kitchen window. but they were as well trained and probably better equipped too. He was offered supervisory training a few years ago but turned it down. unvarnished truth about her life in a cracklingly terse autobiography of forty pages.?? ??A woman??? ??Not just any woman. He was without doubt a most competent news editor. Nor Cortez for that matter. but he had failed. who is considered the queen of investigative journalism. As it was growing light an observant police officer found traces of blood on the ground behind the woodshed.m. It looked as though she might have been buried during the night. 14. Blomkvist will have given his sister a copy. had been suffering chronic pain for a long time ?? I don??t know. We??re interested in hearing what he has to say about the murders in Stockholm. let??s say ?C could publish selected excerpts from it. Stage two is Millennium and Mikael Blomkvist. At a time when the newspaper was on the edge and a campaign of rejuvenation was under way.?? ??We suspect Chief of Secretariat Albert Shenke.

it was just past 2. ??Go to work.?? ??Is that the truth??? Berger nodded. I??ve already handed over evidence that Teleborian committed crimes with Bj?rck in 1991. then it was with these lunatics. No elaboration was forthcoming. it??s Malin.?? ??I??m sorry. then G?ransson??s car would have been parked at one of the ports. limped back to the bed. Quite elderly for a murderer. ??Swab. I recognize you. ??Try not to be furious with me. she now has a lawyer named Annika Giannini. Unlike Lundin. I would consider some form of autism.?? Erlander made notes between taking sips of his coffee. ??We??ll have to postpone the meeting a bit longer. and all of a sudden you??re mixed up in a shootout with that slut the law are after. What do you think it should be about??? ??Morality. I said asap. The most sensitive of all issues.

He visited her three times that evening and noted that her temperature had stabilized at 37. when the trial starts. Gullberg had a single slice of bread and a cup of black coffee in Frey??s caf??. ??I want to know who Evert Gullberg was.?? ??That was Margareta Orring??s article. Do you know where you are??? ??Hospital. He went there off his own bat. Can you bring me up to speed so that I can get the hang of what??s going on??? ??What happened here tonight is the culmination of the murders of two friends of mine in Enskede. after all. His own copy and his sister??s copy were gone. ??You??ve been scratching the wound. ??Why don??t I just go and have a discreet talk with Prosecutor Ekstr?m??? ??And if he gets difficult???? ??I don??t think he will.?? the Minister of Justice said. If the worst came to the worst. And so on. ??That was the crucial part of the evidence. Then he leaned forward. with his unfinished editorial to the left and a frieze of photographs along the bottom edge.?? ??And??? ??There are seven full-timers. Eleven rooms and apparently a bit of a snazzy joint. When they were alone she had asked her why she so provocatively refused to talk to the police. ??There are several parts to this problem. Psychiatry.

Edklinth lacked the legal authority to initiate a preliminary investigation. she accepted. I could stick my finger in the entry wound and touch my brain. Lisbeth. ??You wrote down my car registration when I was parked on the hill outside your building. But more precisely. and nobody else at S.?? ??What do you mean??? ??It??s Lisbeth Salander. but it was up to them to prove it. All he found was a link from Plague to an anonymous U.?? ??We can ask why the source might want this information to get out. Agneta Sofia Salander would necessarily disappear into an institution for long-term care. Nystr?m saw that Ekstr?m had swallowed the bait. and suddenly there isn??t much time left. No doubt someone made a blunder when the cover story was devised. shit. Was it Salander who had killed a policeman? The news item was sketchy. I??d like you to have company here for the rest of the week. the human resources were available. and then served for nine years in Uppsala police and studied law in her spare time.?? ??That sounds reasonable. On her side of the wall there was presumably a similar screwed-on cover. ??The matter has gone to court.

??Do you have the address??? Blomkvist nodded. Part of it is probably that she??s very impressed by you and likes you a lot ?? as a boss.?? ??Take us to a restaurant where we can get some decent food.?? ??Paolo Roberto uses steroids??? ??What? No. I??m also going to charge him with probable involvement in arson.?? Her hair was still so short that he hardly needed to push aside the tufts to feel the scar above her ear.?? ??No. ??Fine. so no point in looking forward to a long-term relationship. and he perfectly understood that this was.?? Wadensj?? said.O. inducing decision-making political entities or authorities to take decisions in a certain direction. the porch on the upper floor. I tried to persuade Paulsson to bring in a dog unit???? ??It??s on its way now. everything related to the Zalachenko case is Top Secret. the car was in the visitors?? car park. Your role was only to do me the kindness of introducing me to one of your acquaintances.000 Swedish citizens who were held to harbour undesirable political sympathies. 27. Gullberg had a bunch of flowers in his hand when he got into the lift at Sahlgrenska hospital at the same time as a short-haired woman in a dark jacket. Neither chose to answer the telephone. She found links to at least a dozen people abroad who traded child porn with each other.

?? ??Yes. He did not want to do it at the hotel where he had been staying. But we have to deal with Blomkvist. And since I??m co-operating with your Stasi-style bureaucracy. and a key player in the Russians?? offensive against western Europe in the ??70s. thank you. He found himself. ??I??ve just changed into jogging things to work off a little of my surplus energy. Even the spouses of his colleagues were not permitted in the corridors of S. She might develop epilepsy.?? Figuerola was on her feet and reaching for her car keys.X. which indicated that the document was Top Secret. Edklinth nodded. It??s my Palm.?? he said. Berger had expected the ??Poison Pen?? to strike.00.?? ??Sounds good.?? ??Correct.?? ??Thomas Paulsson happened at Gosseberga. They could not do anything to solve her private problems.?? Modig made a call to Inspector Bublanski from the corridor outside Zalachenko??s hospital room.

don??t do it. and generally she had done everything she could think of to make him understand how she wanted the newspaper to be shaped. Every time she accessed Teleborian??s hard drive she felt as if her body temperature dropped a few degrees. He was no longer a demon riding on her shoulder. and my superiors really want to talk to you.?? Modig said. a work of art. are aware of the contents. a work of art. whose salary was paid from a fund that had been mysteriously established to provide Palmgren with the best possible care. But I got the offer just before Dag and Mia were shot.?? Blomkvist went on asking questions for another few minutes. feeling stressed.?? ??Sounds good.?? ??What do you mean??? ??I sent Andersson to bring in Bj?rck for a formal interrogation. Well. But you ought to know that you could easily kill an intruder with a golf club.??? Blomkvist said. I was rather young ?? I didn??t know how I should deal with these people. He did not seem to take in anything that Blomkvist said. He had no idea how long the car had been in his neighbourhood. ??I was just thinking ???? Andersson stopped. Finally.