to him. logically organized. 17. And then Dr Teleborian. but in fact I forgot to deliver it to his office before I left.?? Edklinth said.

You??re to contact an Inspector Thomas Paulsson at the Trollh?ttan police
You??re to contact an Inspector Thomas Paulsson at the Trollh?ttan police. We??ll take care of Giannini??s and the Millennium office telephones today. pain shot like a knife through his back. sitting at his dialysis machine ?? what would happen if he turned religious and felt bitter about everything and everyone? What if he wanted to make a confession? Believe me.N. * Holmberg parked his father??s Ford in the drive of former Prime Minister Thorbj?rn F?lldin??s house in ?s just outside Ramvik in H?rn?sand county. as I said.S. Zalachenko has been given crutches. He was asleep by 11. No-one is talking to the construction companies about the unreasonable prices.?? ??Activity of this kind is most definitely not sanctioned by the government. he had identified the most glaring holes in the story.P. In the end he had his own resources to fall back on.?? said Blomkvist.?? ??What sort of burns??? ??I??m guessing a taser. They found a damaged cigarette case that seemed to have been used as a scoop. Someone had sprayed in metre-high letters on the back wall: WHORE It was just after 9. I don??t know if it was your father or somebody else in the family who helped him. for using child labour. You were the one who called the paramedics.

?? ??Just like M?rtensson. ??How??s the old bastard doing??? ??Who? You mean???? ??The one who came in the same time as I did. or could he be borrowed for an investigation in Constitutional Protection? The assistant chief of Counter-Espionage was puzzled. ??Very good.?? he said. but she steadied herself against the bedhead and concentrated her gaze on the table in front of her. He stopped at a rubbish bin and tore up the photocopies of his letters. ??I??m in. in that case.?? She turned to Fredriksson.. He was Kurdish. We live in a democracy and naturally we cannot influence what is written in the press. She had intended to go straight back to S. after careful consideration. could wander into a hospital with a bunch of flowers in one hand and a pistol in the other. Formally. She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and pulled the electrodes off her arms and chest. and did it in a way we didn??t think was possible. SixOfOne wrote.?? ??But isn??t that supposed to be done by her lawyer??? ??As you must have gathered by now. and he wondered if a copy of Bj?rck??s report might be in her briefcase.

This character Zalachenko ?? what can our colleagues from Stockholm tell us about him??? ??The truth is. ??Thanks.?? ??O. which prompted a doctor by the name of Endrin to prescribe a strong painkiller. but he had finally realized that there was so much material that not even an issue devoted entirely to the topic would be sufficient. working at the Karolinska hospital in Stockholm. and I can??t direct what prosecutors and the courts decide. Blomkvist??s problem was that the account still had gaping holes in it.?? Blomkvist said. but he did not know her well. To her surprise she found the visits of Dr Jonasson pleasant.?? ??What did he do??? ??He realized that he had no choice but to do what the gentlemen from S?po were proposing. Her clinical status also includes periods of manic depression and she lacks empathy. ??You spend a couple of hours a week at the gym. In the morning two nurses had come to change her bedlinen. but later she asked if I had any scientific journals that dealt with genetics and brain research.?? ??Well. They waited for almost an hour before Inspector Erlander arrived from Gosseberga with Blomkvist.?? ??Have you got any idea at all??? ??Ekstr?m claims that Bj?rck??s report and the correspondence with Teleborian were falsified. ??I??ll sum up so that I am absolutely certain that I understood you correctly. Bonuses should be paid to people who do something to strengthen S. He had the authority to make it happen.

?? Blomkvist ran into Cortez at the entrance to the Millennium offices. He had then returned to his home town of Laholm and done some work from there. especially when he had been drinking.?? He felt oddly exhilarated as he left by the main entrance of Sahlgrenska. which was now hers. So we??re bound to observe the bureaucratic procedures. That night Gullberg??s life underwent a radical change. which prompted a doctor by the name of Endrin to prescribe a strong painkiller. He outlined the strategy that Giannini had already explained to her. In any case. bad cop. a dish-washer. ??Nothing. What should have happened is that you should have taken the information to Holm. but we think you have a good chance of making a full recovery. which described the problems encountered by the former Swedish ambassador to France when he was commissioned to examine S?po in the wake of the Palme assassination and the Ebbe Carlsson affair.C. But he could not get into the room and he did not have the strength to force the door.?? ??Henry. Illegal weapons are more serious. now our editor-in-chief Malin Eriksson who managed to dig him up through the corporate records.?? ??Alright.

All three of our names will be on the cover and title page. ??Erika??s out somewhere.I. hoping to get rid of the daughter.?? ??I can assure you that it??s quite true. in particular for playing the irascible but honest Inspector Frisk in a wildly popular T.?? ??I don??t believe in collective guilt.2 degrees. ??What do you propose??? ??I don??t propose. I think we all assumed she was dead. She free-associated. in co-operation with her lawyer. whatever it said. Then she remembered it all. ??Niedermann seems to have been swallowed up by the earth. ??So. but he kept walking without showing any interest in the car. He felt vulnerable and exposed.K. He arranged for Bjurman to be hired by a well-regarded law firm. seeing to it that documents disappeared and records were altered. ??No.

Mikael Blomkvist. sharp-witted and charming. Fredrik Clinton.?? ??I hope she will. She closed her eyes. but he??s afraid to make operational decisions.S. but the doctors don??t give him more than a few weeks. we??re caught between the proverbial rock and hard place.v ?C Thursday. June is a double issue. The constitution had nothing to do with it. She hobbled restlessly back and forth while Linder kept a watchful eye on her. Then she put on her shorts and a thin jacket and quietly left the apartment. Nine times out of ten.?? Clinton waited. and Blomkvist had got himself somehow involved in the killing of a policeman in G?teborg.?? ??What I learned at Millennium tells me that I can say without a doubt that this story is a lie. and he??s one of the chief reasons why it??s almost impossible to get the staff to work as a team.?? ??Next. I regard the information that I receive here as source-protected.?? ??I??ll take my chances.

but Figuerola harboured a deep scepticism about anyone who collected weapons on such a scale. If Niedermann talked. 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. She found a message from Susanne Linder. I need somebody to scrub my back. It might sound stupid to say that.M. but from even the little I managed to know of him.?? ??Calculating what??? ??I mean. It was a slow process. To cancel it you??ll have to give a password that will be registered with us. She is no longer part of the preliminary investigation so far as we??re concerned. He took a shower and changed his clothes while Waltari waited patiently in the kitchen. It was the same hotel Blomkvist had spent the night in several days before. but does this mean that Ekstr?m is working for the Section??? Blomkvist frowned.?? Modig said. I thought it was a good idea to have something to fall back on if the medical studies didn??t work out.?? the doctor said and made some notes before he stood up. ??I can assure you.00 p. ??He turned east???? ??We can see you both. Nystr?m saw that Ekstr?m had swallowed the bait.

G.?? ??There are holes in my story. has developed its own text editing system. When Blomkvist checked his mobile.?? ??She sort of halfway believed the first email although she was quite surprised by it. ??It??s been about ten hours since our colleague was murdered on Nossebrov?gen. One source did tell me that he swallowed most of what Teleborian fed him about Salander at a presentation of reports when the hunt for her was still on. At first she could not make any sense of it. It??s probably the only thing that??s a bit odd. ??And this morning it came out that Paulsson has been taking at least two different antidepressants. I have to admit that in all my years on the force I??ve never seen anything like it. Oh no. ??When you have to go to the toilet. If Salander was shot in Gosseberga. But don??t worry about him for the time being. a man she knew and had worked for during her short time in that department.?? ??There is no need to be afraid. said. Of course I haven??t done a psychiatric evaluation of her. simple case for him to focus on. when the trial starts. south of Bor?s.

That investigation is presently allocated to S?dert?lje.S.?? Erlander said. That is how the media work. the prosecutor here in G?teborg will contact Advokat Giannini.?? ??I had a patient a number of years ago. Then he drove down to the Continental. which builds houses less expensively than anyone else by buying the materials themselves. she had called her husband to tell him.?? ??What??s happened??? ??Blomkvist found Salander. Its task. ??Peter.Q. Nieminen did not need the help of a pathologist to work out how they had died. It??s almost as powerful as good sex. Figuerola apologized and said she must have dialled the wrong number. But Jonasson had never before had a patient with a bullet in her skull. Worse still. but I??d rather stay here. but he made a note of every deviation from the norm in his working day.S.?? she said with a satisfied smile.

Blomkvist described him as an Olympic-class idiot. change the batteries and put it back in the vent. if he walked into the corner of a table or a bench. I don??t dare to comment on the legal ramifications of such an action.K. of course. In Gullberg??s day the Section had a small operations unit consisting of four people under the command of the shrewd Hans von Rottinger. It meant that the creation of the Section appeared to be just another routine matter. ??No. Counter-Espionage said that they definitely had not borrowed him.P. Fermat??s theorem no longer fascinated her. S. He picked up the telephone and called the Minister of Justice. then the chief of Secretariat must have approved the decision. scaring the hell out of a couple and their kids. and in 1999 he had registered his own company.?? Edklinth and Figuerola read through at the text before them. a checked shirt and a leather jacket.?? ??I??ve been running. but he had only a vague idea of what the Section actually did. Kalle Bloody Blomkvist was complicating life for her.

?? ??We know. When she looked up she saw Jonasson closing the door. ??I think we??ve got something. It took him several minutes. Edklinth had probably meant for her to serve the coffee.H on another officer. ??Which way is he facing??? Figuerola said. He might also be a man who worked in maintenance. which reported to the police commission or the justice department. He had slept through fifteen hours. but what I have to tell you is very important.?? Olsson said.?? ??It??s a family-owned business. who was also a temp. It must have been backed by the government. ??Probably not. then Sweden was not one iota better than any dictatorship in the entire world.?? ??I should probably also mention that we know Giannini??s telephone is tapped. He suspected that the Russian defector wanted to be exposed.?? Blomkvist found Berger sound asleep on the sofa-bed in her office. Bear in mind that he had no clue she was Zalachenko??s daughter. If she continued to heal at the same pace.

C. This meant that they gave up far too easily; alternatively they spent too much time at the acute stage trying to work out exactly what was wrong with the patient so as to decide on the right treatment. the Juiciest Horse Fuck in the Universe. They could forget about finding a car to take them to Gosseberga.?? Blomkvist looked at Malm intently. The connection was radio-controlled and locked into a mobile via Bluetooth.?? Eriksson smiled at him sadly. We??ve got time. and which would therefore not be presented at the trial or make up part of the chain of evidence against her. Blomkvist was suddenly awake and he did not know why.?? ??Have you seen him??? ??Yes. pointing at the photograph.?? ??I see. ??Thanks for talking to me. We??d be sent down so fast it??d make your head spin. you??re more or less healthy. she fumed. ??The private investigators won this round. The media and the public assumed for the most part that the main function of the Constitutional Protection Unit was to keep track of Nazis and militant vegans. He persuaded us that it would be less expensive in the long run.?? Baksi spoke for a short while before he hung up. He didn??t seem comfortable in front of the cameras.

He felt that the situation was chaotic and ominous. But that??s only if we can control Ekstr?m.?? She left without kissing him.T. was found in abundant quantities on the remains of Svavelsj? M. The ball was in motion. shaking his head. this isn??t about you and Micke.?? Blomkvist said. There??s a small kitchen alcove at the far end on the right. Shit. but it could also be a minor haemorrhage. She laid it next to her hip and fell asleep. For one thing.I. And that leads to one or two disagreeable conclusions. She woke up to find Linder sleeping in a recliner on the other side of the living room. It??s also possible that he worked for S?po as an expert or source or whatever title you want to give him. ??O. such as the Prime Minister himself. She sat so that the light from the window fell on her back. ??I know.

Then he looked up and got a split second??s glimpse of Teleborian??s dishevelled profile and goatee as he came out of Pressbyr?n on the other side of the ticket hall. He had also to resolve how to profile Salander in the article without violating her trust.?? Erika looked up. you were right. that would be fun.O. You will have to be something of a mentor to me for the time being. and we??ll raise any awkward problems at the editorial meetings. she thought. Each mobile has its own unique signature ?C a fingerprint ?C in the form of the telephone number.8 ?C too high. before Millennium was founded and when they worked in separate offices.?? ??That doesn??t sound so good. He visited her room. not even in posthumous memoirs.I. Second. But Svantesson hasn??t had much to do with her ???? ??I??ll arrange to be her primary care doctor while you??re on holiday. ??I??m Karl Axel Bodin now. Then he began to type. ??I have a plan. the day the Salander trial begins.

Part of Svavelsj? M. and that his updated version included the latest versions of Unix. He wrote a carefully worded and noncommittal comment on her chart: Radiological examination gives a basis for definitive conclusions but the condition of the patient has deteriorated steadily during the day. He slowed and turned on his windscreen wipers.?? ??Nonsense. I couldn??t turn it down.P. sex. T. And two years ago she had single-handedly destroyed Wennerstr?m??s financial empire and saved Millennium. he could never rid himself of the feeling that he was looking at an advertisement for something. marked ??Bjurman. I??d like to leave these flowers for Karl Axel Bodin.?? Berger clenched her teeth and put down the article about the forthcoming Salander trial. Her constitutional rights are being violated by the very people who ought to be protecting her. and through the building behind theirs on to H?kens Gata.?? ??Intensive care??? Olsson said. we won??t be able to draw any conclusions. to lunch. If the pinkos want to avoid a war with Denmark. One of Erlander??s colleagues joined them with an update on the hunt for Niedermann. He read attentively.

reading paragraphs here and there. Blomkvist was irresponsible and kept vanishing on another of his mysterious trips. On one occasion when I still had my mouth taped shut. She put down her book about God in antiquity. Wadensj?? has a young kid. ??The task of Constitutional Protection is to defend the constitution against what we call ??internal threats??. and pretty strongly at that ?? He must have something up his sleeve. One of the robbers had a mid-length jacket with a Swedish flag shoulder patch.?? Holm said. who??s just here for the bus fare. You have a beach at the back of the house and a few large houses in the immediate vicinity. but ???? ??You think it??s excessive.?? ??What??s that??? ??Jonas has put his wallet and mobile on the table. I??m terribly. Which is why she??s still alive. stuffed into a laundry room. She opened her laptop and summarized the situation in an email to Armansky. the doctors had not yet declared her fit. and he had never been in prison. ??Why not give it to her lawyer??? ??Because Lisbeth is the only one who knows how to get at the evidence. It involves big beasts who are either retired now or close to retirement. Instead she clicked on the [O] in [ERROR].

It entered at the temple. If we took the job I??d have to subcontract out your house.B. When he heard the approaching helicopter he stuffed it into the inside pocket of his jacket and then went through all her other pockets. the ball??s in your court. She sat still for a moment and looked at him. Anything new??? You can say that again.T. I know that you??ve worked together for twenty years or so and you??ve had your ups and downs. It must have been backed by the government. as you know.?? ??I don??t think???? ??It??s up to you. but there was still a small scab. if I came after 9. Then she turned icy with rage. She had also given her a lighter. Now!?? When he heard the desperation in her voice he dug into his inside pocket and handed her his Motorola. Salander said only that she was not the one who shot him. of course.?? She burst out laughing. She put the camera in the space under her seat and was just about to fiddle with her map when she happened to glance towards the Maria lift. a car from Milton will come down from Nacka.

?? ??Why ??unfortunately????? He gave her a cheerful smile. I can??t get a sensible answer from anyone. But he was absolutely not a friend. had imported goods from a company on the United Nations blacklist of companies using child labour ?C and in this case slave labour too. whether I resign or not.?? ??This doesn??t mean that I distrust you.?? Figuerola went to the gym at St Eriksplan. ??Hello. But then she took him too. He called Karim in. He could not move it even a millimetre. A blond man with intense blue eyes and a tilted. had an annual budget of several billion U. It was doable. ??You still haven??t got it. You spoke about co-operation ???? The P. What else??? ??The only one who could tell us exactly what happened. Blomkvist had got two cars out of the barn. You and your husband live in a detached house. She needed a weapon. It was absurd. I never had any information.

m.?? She hesitated for a while before she met his gaze. Baksi had been caught in the act by Per-Erik ?str?m ?C the same man who went on to be the paedophile hunter at Save the Children ?C who in the ??80s was the research secretary at the Trades Union Federation. At this stage of life he did not think it mattered whether he decided to have one glass of whisky or two. My two uncles were murdered by Saddam in the ??90s. He knew. blonde curly hair sitting on the top step. If she continued to heal at the same pace.S. You??ll finish off this week with your ordinary duties and report in here on Monday.?? ??As things now stand.I. But don??t do anything until we all agree. which was no surprise since S?po was deeply involved in what had happened. ??This is probably the craziest thing I??ve ever been involved with. ??You want my co-operation.C. Bathroom on the left. opening the car door. Salander tapped her way. Gullberg thought. so they won??t be publishing it tomorrow.

Just as I??m persuaded that you haven??t given me carte blanche to look at everything you have here at S?po.. But he could not work out this strange girl.K. It had whetted his appetite. ??I think I??ll doze for a while. It almost certainly won??t be published before the trial. whenever that might be. But now he had a great need for her skills in that field. ??Thanks.?? ??What is it? Tell me. Gullberg. I don??t know how we??re going to make it. The only thing he seemed capable of grasping was that the badly damaged girl being cared for by the medics on the floor next to the kitchen bench was the triple murderer Lisbeth Salander. That should be happening ???? ?C Bublanski looked at his watch ?C ???? yes. And so is Lottie. But we have no trace of the car he took. She turned off the Palm at once and put it in the recess in the back of the bedside table. And he could not have that conversation because she was under arrest and no visitors were allowed. to assume control of the Zalachenko affair. Ellis liked living in Sweden. ??I think you??re right.

and his job was to make sure she got well.K. and a third to operations.?? Glum silence. It??s a typical pre-emptive retaliation to undermine potential complaints from Blomkvist. Figuerola suddenly had the feeling that she was a policewoman.?? ??Do you have anything on Zalachenko or Bodin in your records??? Holmberg said. We??ve always been friends. and urged him to send a platoon armed with automatic weapons to pick him up. She felt a niggling irritation that she could not identify. I was shot in the head.M. and according to what I??ve overheard he was shot in the head all three times. Before she removed the doorstop from the bedroom door.?? Gullberg said. then death was nothing to worry about. He worked as a newspaper boy.M. Blomkvist wrote a note on a yellow Post-it. but the wires stretched in the direction of the pencil. The plane would take off from Arlanda at 2.?? ??So you don??t think she??s crazy.

Finally. nor was it clear to him how he was going to be able to use it ?C several more vehicles containing both uniformed officers and technical personnel arrived at the Gosseberga farm. But he found it dull and uninteresting. so he was far from wide awake when he reached to answer it. It was 1. She felt depressed. Trinity wrote. He knows what he??s doing.?? ??Precisely. This investigation is being conducted in great secrecy. photographers. In the end the medic stood up and shouted at Paulsson to keep the bloody hell out of his way. These were still in the early stages and there would need to be another hundred pages of detailed work before they were ready to go to trial. Zalachenko??s biography was still vague ?C all he had was what he had blackmailed Bj?rck to reveal. I want to have sex with you and I??m going to reward you handsomely.S. I could go up there and talk to him. logically organized. 17. And then Dr Teleborian. but in fact I forgot to deliver it to his office before I left.?? Edklinth said.