??If I say that a S?po agent broke into my apartment and I can document it ?C and him ?C with a video

whether I could bring her books of any sort
whether I could bring her books of any sort. When can we do that??? ??I have a report from her doctor. But then she got restless and put on her running kit. I understand all that.00. ??This is most assuredly a matter of life or death. and the second was an analysis of the bizarre sexual behaviour of an African diplomat. if I came after 9. She had gathered that Salander could be moody and withdrawn. On the instructions of that goddamned blond monster. ??The others are on their way. Henry ?? you??ll have to go full-time and take Malin??s place as assistant editor. He??s at his best when things heat up.?? Nystr?m said with a slight smile.00 on Saturday morning to the ringing of his telephone. but when you were uncovered I was pretty busy stopping the bleeding and extracting bullets and so on.?? Berger said in a dry voice. This is about people who spied formerly within the Soviet Union ?C no regime in the world would stand for that. She had electrodes taped to her body to record her pulse and breathing. A really good story. ??But he seemed the right choice at the time. and he??s agreed to comply with every request that may have a bearing on national security.

calm and collected. ??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. I??ll be back in Stockholm tomorrow if nothing else comes up. thrown her on to her stomach on the bed. she was being unfair.?? ??A sort of secret spy police??? ??There are in fact parallels overseas. underlining. ??Has something happened??? ??Something is happening right now. eliminated all the men in the twenty-six to fifty-four age group who were married. Go and find Benny. She noticed that some people were nodding their approval. Anyway ???? ??Yes??? ??She had no good reason to trust the police.?? Gullberg said. a doorman. What was I supposed to do. Berger could not see why Holm had adopted this attitude towards her.?? Wadensj?? said. I see. In theory that would be about twenty hours?? driving. There was no reason to volunteer the information that Lundin had called her a whore or that she had bent down and picked up Nieminen??s P-83 Wanad and punished Lundin by shooting him in the foot. He was a senior official in the immigration unit.?? Gullberg leaned forward.

With respect to the graves in Nykvarn. Then he took a taxi to Artillerigatan in ?stermalm. ??I??ll gladly listen to other suggestions. I??m not above the law. or who he might go to for protection. Ever since he had heard the news at the Kaffebar he had had his heart in his throat and a panicky feeling that Salander might have been the killer. I could do it in my sleep. He tried to commit suicide. As the situation now stood. but again in vain. I don??t suppose you have any chance of hearing what they??re saying.se> with the subject line [Attn: Editor-in-Chief]. Unfortunately Holm is a walking disaster. you have to get on board with the program. The page was designed around a black-bordered portrait. The selection was scarcely based on any statistical. were guys. he had ?C literally ?C rootled around in her brain.K. stood on tiptoe and unscrewed the three screws in the round white cover of a vent in the wall of Salander??s room. either openly or covertly. Ellis always replied in his mother tongue.

?? ??What do you mean??? ??It??s Lisbeth Salander. Finally he called for a minute??s silence.C.?? ??So we no longer have the report??? ??No. I??ll explain the situation. But don??t do anything until we all agree. My prognosis is that the third quarter will produce a significant loss. You come back having found that anything is as my source describes it. placed it around his neck. We chatted for a couple of minutes.?? Berger slept until 2.?? ??That simple ???? ??And why did you become a S?po activist??? he said.?? ??It??s in ?hlen??s archive. 8.?? ??We??ll install the alarm this afternoon. is guilty of these crimes. stuffed it into his shoulder bag and left the office without a word. which meant that policemen would die and Niedermann probably would as well. ??He was S. of the server where he kept Teleborian??s hard drive. playing badminton. It was a slow process.

She also has a bullet wound in her shoulder and another in her hip.S.?? a highly placed Swede ?C or possibly other Scandinavian politician ?C who worked for the K. Blomkvist must have blackmailed Bj?rck.?? ??Could I read the original??? ??Certainly you can. She wore only a pair of wet trousers and a thin sweater. where all the documentation was being assembled. She looked at her husband and her friend.?? ??I beg your pardon??? ??As I said.U. ??Oh yes. Then she retreated slowly to the bed.?? Holmberg said. inside and out.?? ??Forget I asked. ??Of course it depends on how we interpret the confiscated weapons. He switched on their headlights to illuminate a landing area in the field in front of the house.?? ??It??s up to Salander to decide. Ever since he had heard the news at the Kaffebar he had had his heart in his throat and a panicky feeling that Salander might have been the killer. I want to talk to Erika. She waited until she heard the nurse??s steps receding before she once again picked up her Palm. Criminal Inspector Marcus Erlander from the Violent Crimes Division of the G?teborg police arrived in Gosseberga and took over the investigation from the overburdened Paulsson.

who has worked in S?po for many years. You??ve had an operation and you??re in the intensive care unit. this state of affairs was deeply unsatisfactory. We had also informed Camilla that her sister was violent and mentally ill.?? ??Do I have a say in this??? ??No. She put her police revolver in her shoulder bag and picked out a dark-red leather coat. During the first year the Section consisted of Gullberg and three hand-picked colleagues. Annika recognized him as the man who come up in the lift with her.?? ??There??s quite a bit of budget work to check up on. She sat on the edge of her bed. Francke and P. Gullberg hesitated. but the doctors don??t give him more than a few weeks. I??m going to make you so happy. Then her eyes fell on a nurses?? table by the wall three metres from her bed.K. Borgsj? went to Vietnam twice more. When his uncle heard that Saddam Hussein??s police were looking once more for Ghidi. this is frustrating. she was the one who would have to live with herself. And things similar. while she and Karim were expected to do all the spadework for the next issue of a magazine that had not had any real leadership since Berger left.

?? he said. we??ve already discussed the police. This is just an extra job for me. and be the news editor??? ??I wouldn??t do it for anything. I looked up the tenants. He and the whole of Sweden had seen her passport photograph on billboards outside every newspaper kiosk for weeks. then. He did not really need permission to publish the book in Svensson??s name.?? ??That??s right. ??Have we got a plan??? ??We??re going to drive over and have a talk with Niedermann. resisting arrest. he would make mistakes.S.?? ??I want to know what you and Blomkvist are up to. As a prosecutor I would be uneasy about the lack of unassailable evidence. Ghidi wondered what Adamsson would do if someone actually tried to get into the Salander woman??s room. Which he had no intention of doing. Which says that he took the lamp down.?? ??Hell of a way to die.?? she said. In the cell at S?dert?lje police station he had played the scene over and over in his head: how he and Lundin had arrived at Advokat Bjurman??s summer house and found Salander apparently just leaving. He recognized her straightaway as Monica Figuerola of S.

In the late morning it dawned on Blomkvist that his rental car was still at the Gosseberga farm. He had brushed up his prose. You??re right about that. heart and lungs shut down one after the other. You have an infection in your body. ??I don??t want details of the investigation or anything like that. because you shot him in the foot and broke his jaw when you kicked him. Even the noose was just a loop. Blomkvist logged in to I.?? Bublanski said. Part-time guard. I heard three shots. and I don??t think there is any other doctor in Sweden with the same insight into her clinical condition.?? ??Calculating what??? ??I mean. & E.?? He tied a sheet around his waist. but does this mean that Ekstr?m is working for the Section??? Blomkvist frowned. What time??? ??2.?? ??Blomkvist thinks there??s a faction within S?po. He wondered how Niedermann would get along on his own. If you imported directly from the factory in Vietnam. And she has to be charged with shooting Magge Lundin in Stallarholmen.

I need to get in touch with my client so that she can approve me as her defence lawyer. Come and have breakfast if you can make it. it was entirely possible that the emailer had been busy elsewhere too ?C that other people had got mail apparently from her that she did not know about. Where exactly this boundary was seemed to vary from one person to another. did he not??? Prosecutor Jervas said. ??You??re right. this year you will be paying out a huge amount of money in dividends to the paper??s twenty-three shareholders. It was just our bad luck that he happened to be on rotation. who was also a temp. I knew him through my mother. I don??t believe we??ll ever figure out precisely how the brain works. Blomkvist hesitated.?? ??It??s still not my problem.?? Blomkvist breathed more easily. and the consequences are there for all to see today. Then yesterday she had a setback. said.?? ??So I do need to visit her to do a first-hand evaluation of her condition.?? He got up and walked once around the table before stopping in front of Edklinth. He has a three-year-old daughter. On her side of the wall there was presumably a similar screwed-on cover. and why he had run for his life instead of staying to finish Salander off.

and he was reading it with gathering astonishment. In that case. Jonasson was left with the second patient. Finally. ??And to be able to persuade him to keep his mouth shut. I??m not really sure.?? ??That doesn??t sound so good. He nodded.?? Armansky laughed. and who at that moment was sitting in a ditch on the road to Nossebro tied to a traffic sign. and what we believe to have happened. ??Can you lift it by yourself??? She lifted her arm. It felt unreal. what??s the situation??? Andersson shook his head. and I??m afraid she??s going to get the same medicine when the trial begins. How do you know about that??? ??Stop arguing and make it snappy.?? Blomkvist said.?? Blomkvist said.?? ??No. He sat still for while. I??ve apologized to him for the way he was treated last night. and she named some standard works that I??d never heard of.

She showered. and was assistant chief before that. She put her police revolver in her shoulder bag and picked out a dark-red leather coat. He worked with you for ten years.?? Wadensj?? said.?? Bublanski cast a sceptical glance at the muscular woman on other side of the table.?? he said with real sorrow in his voice. What complicated the issue was that not a word of what he was writing was true. But the surgeon says he has high hopes that she??ll survive.?? he snapped. He had tried to get into her room. of course. He finally got off a bus at Slussen. If a storm was brewing.?? ??I understand. Do you understand??? ??Yes. But someone else has. she had pushed all thoughts of the Section to one side and concentrated on Berger??s problem.?? ??Mikael ?? I??ve said this before. Blomkvist looked at him expectantly. Figuerola locked all the material in her safe. She was filled with doubt about the plan that her brother had outlined to her.

?? Edklinth said with a faint smile.?? Holmberg said. He could not see anything remarkable. ??I don??t know. And if need be you can always come to me or Christer. good people. He knew. She had a taser. the officer who had worked with the financial police. correct??? Blomkvist nodded. I check out every car that catches my attention. Jervas raised her hand.?? She smiled sweetly. a work of art. She took a hammer from the tool box in the basement and put that in the master bathroom too. Twice convicted for beating his ex-wife. It was Giannini. After about fifteen minutes the blond man stood up and left the caf??. and then within the Constitutional Protection Unit as an analyst and administrator. She had not been given any details about the incoming cases. either by customs or by passport control.?? Wadensj?? said.

We have been caught napping. Be there in five minutes. It was Giannini. But it was now forty-eight hours since Niedermann had fled.?? ??A graze over three centimetres long on the outside of his left knee. I wish he had left a letter. I have ordered an investigation.C. Blomkvist shook his head.?? Nieminen was in a vile mood when he left the cells at S?dert?lje police station. researcher or media that had carried out a critical examination of S?po. there was no crime. four hours later than usual.K. somewhere near Nossebro. ??It??s been about ten hours since our colleague was murdered on Nossebrov?gen.M. It was an unpleasant subject.?? ??But your proposal is off the wall. No time to waste. Only one thing is important right now. ??It??s all about getting Ekstr?m to split the two cases.

Plague. He looked startled. Poison. I want you to know this: you are my patient. It involves big beasts who are either retired now or close to retirement. and two officers whose job it was to compile and analyse any intelligence information that Zalachenko might contribute.?? Armansky said. dried herself. They told a fantastic story about a Russian defector who had come to Sweden.C. but we share an objective. They sat in the car and waited. ??What do you suggest??? ??If we??re going to run Millennium effectively during the autumn. He went into Salander??s room and held out his hand to introduce himself. Then he stood up. All that is nonsense. I got in at the same time he did. You were the one F?lldin assigned to be the go-between with those who were protecting Zalachenko. I refer to the fact that Salander hit her father with an axe.M.?? ??Someone??? ??Dragan. I??ve missed you.

From the moment I sat down in that glass cage.?? ??It sounds like a good way for me to get booted off the force.S. along with a video of a personal nature.?? he said. Everything was running as usual in her head. And tell them that next time they should send a grown man for me to discuss things with.P. ??He was S. I don??t think Sweden has been in such an exposed position since the end of the Second World War.?? ??Who could blame them. How am I going to do all this alone??? ??You won??t have to.?? Inspector Erlander saw Giannini through the doorway to Salander??s room. The girl looked terrible. He had interrupted her planning how to break out of Sahlgrenska hospital. then. But I??ve moved. but he knew that it would be a bad idea to frighten off Waltari before they were in place. After a while she pinged Blomkvist on I.?? Silence. ??there is one record that neither F?lldin nor his visitors thought of.S.

and it very nearly sabotaged the entire C. When the name Zalachenko turned up in the preliminary investigation. to an apartment with the name Martinsson on the door. subdued conversation. ??Well ?? that??s good.?? ??What??s the status of the search??? ??We??re keeping an eye on all trains arriving in Stockholm and Malm?. But what really interested Salander were the forty-seven folders containing close to nine thousand photographs of explicit child pornography.?? Berger suddenly felt an enormous wave of relief. in other words. Daniel. she was a person who stubbornly kept her distance from those around her and showed no emotion at all. Monica.?? She looked at Blomkvist. That would be placing myself in the same relation to you as the Minister of Justice??s predecessor once stood to the journalist Ebbe Carlsson. A total of twelve. sweeping up the floor. but the number of his assignments decreased. the footnotes often referred to articles in the evening newspapers. and there??s been such turmoil here that I buried it. before Millennium was founded and when they worked in separate offices. I need you to confirm that this would be your intention. as soon as her client had been moved to a new room and a security guard had been posted outside.

I was born on 30 April 1978. ??It??ll pass. He doesn??t admit to a thing. but you can??t do it by mistake. I??ve been here five months ?C this is my last week.?? ??That??s nice to hear. She showered and towelled herself and went to the bedroom to put on a dressing gown. The later conventional use of the term ??S?po?? was actually something that the potentially subversive communist publication Clart?? had coined as a pejorative name for the communist-hunters within the police force. Ekstr?m was most upset.?? Modig said. they??ll say it??s confidential or that it has something to do with terrorism. Jonasson put his hand on her forehead and felt that it was damp. He had hung up his jacket and was leaning back in his chair at the conference table. The problem was that Ekstr?m seldom or never used it for work-related calls.?? ??O. n??e Sj?lander. and so a potential criminal in Saddam Hussein??s Iraq.?? ??Do you have your car nearby??? ??The last time I checked it was in the parking space outside.00. and swung her legs over the side of the bed.??s personnel has been reduced by 118. She waved him away.

The difference. Greeks. Otherwise. and he found himself with a completely different murderer and a chaos that seemed to have no end in sight. I can??t do that if I have to cut staff. It was doable. Edklinth would go through the roof. But that sort of temporary reassignment was not unusual ?C covering a shortage of personnel here or there in an emergency situation.?? ??We studied all your notes today and we??ve informed the prosecutor that we??re prepared to discharge you. He had not. and then to India. and he wasn??t sure how things would turn out at the magazine. We??re the ones who will decide what we can tell you. Everything could have gone fine.I.?? ??An attack alarm can??t be cancelled the same way you would cancel the burglar alarm. The government collapsed again when the moderates jumped ship.?? ??But he refuses to give the police any information about Salander.45 p. Protest meetings were held and petitions were sent to Minister of Immigration Birgit Friggebo. She was exhausted. I have another solution.

?? ??If he took the morning ferry. forty-eight men between the ages of twenty-six and fifty-four.?? Cortez said. has eaten into a great many old consolidated assets. (2) To wage a media war I must be able to appear in public to discuss things that you may consider your private business. this is a matter for the G?teborg police. I hired Niedermann as an assistant a number of years ago. and nobody became a member of this exclusive club without very strong recommendations.?? ??How do you know that??? ??Gullberg met Prime Minister F?lldin six weeks after Zalachenko??s defection. Wasp wrote.?? ??Why ??unfortunately????? He gave her a cheerful smile.E. of course. On that point we would be in agreement. Within the Firm the terms communist and traitor were synonymous. no matter how noble the intentions. But it??s very simple to fake an apparently legitimate address.).?? ??Naturally. will have to cobble together.?? Karim said. a dish-washer.

Then the two old agents embraced.?? ??What Blomkvist doesn??t grasp is that if the truth about Zalachenko comes out. ??Nieminen. or preventing individual citizens from exercising their constitutionally protected rights and liberties. ??My name is???? ??Monica Figuerola.?? ??She had an operation soon after she was brought in and was awake in the early evening. simple case for him to focus on. He even managed ?C for a short time ?C to take command of a nuclear submarine on patrol in the North Sea. who took pity on him and vouchsafed that. nutters who had the gift to read messages hidden from the normal world. He made a call to his sister. ??It??s a disaster.m. the role of Dr Teleborian in the psychiatric clinic in 1991. no frills.?? Blomkvist thanked him and took a taxi to City Hotel on Lorensbergsgatan. From now on we??ll meet in an office we??ve rented at Fridhemsplan. Ever since the girls were nine or ten. Salander was taken to Sahlgrenska with a bullet in her head. then he isn??t worth the time you??ve put in for him. Then I can tell you that I like neither your tone nor your evasions nor your lies.?? Jonasson said.

And he did it without ever dropping a ball.?? She thought about that. ??As far as I??m concerned. and Nieminen.?? ??I don??t think???? ??It??s up to you.?? ??What does Blomkvist say??? ??He concedes that he was insulting.?? ??I know. to take over as editor-inchief. We can assume that another two police officers ??. ??The X2000 at 5.?? Edklinth said. she thinks it??s embarrassing and doesn??t quite know what to do. a matter of minutes.?? Jonasson wondered whether Ellis was pulling his leg. He felt inadequate but all of a sudden realized that he might be luckier than he deserved. It??s a huge opportunity for you. I??m quite sure Henry would agree to that. He had filled in the gaps by saying that Bjurman had made a deal with Zalachenko which collapsed when Bjurman lost control. ??Erika??s out somewhere. Because this had been going on for many years ?C at least since 1976. practically speaking. with a broad experience.

Exactly twenty seconds after Blomkvist left Caf?? Copacabana. That??s why I insisted on seeing you at once. he finally sent Andersson to bring him in. ??Lisbeth Salander.K.?? ??Alright. But we can??t clear this matter up all by ourselves. E. from which several weapons had already been confiscated. ??Evert Gullberg.?? ??I??m not interrupting anything??? ??No.N. As Figuerola followed she flipped open her mobile with her left hand and punched in a number. how??? ??Tell me what you want to know.K. ??What do you intend to do??? ??I was hoping you would tell me.?? ??I see. Blomkvist sat on a sofa while Baksi got coffee from a machine in the hallway. Bear in mind that he had no clue she was Zalachenko??s daughter. and then sat down with his iBook. close to the corner of Olof Palmes Gata. ??If I say that a S?po agent broke into my apartment and I can document it ?C and him ?C with a video.