isn??t exactly rock solid. That meant they had been dead maybe twenty-four hours. I don??t want to get flabby.

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2 an hour ago. your lovely breasts. We??ve got them covered. He might even be able to point you in the direction of Niedermann. and she had not used the program since starting at S. But to be honest. but I suspect that you might have a better chance of finding out the relevant information. but not before a long and diplomatic circumlocution. The son-of-a-bitch is probably out screwing around with some bimbo with big boobs. She had not booked a hotel room.v ?C Monday.?? ??It sounds as if there are revolving doors into the place. ??This is a complete mess. but he had been told to go to the passport police and immediately to ask for political asylum. ??So the Zalachenko club is somewhere in this building. and he had to stop after each step to deal with the pain. But the most obvious purpose would have been to involve the Swedish government in a scandal.?? ??Thank you. but this is how I view the general situation. She was lying with the sheet pulled up to the tip of her nose.

The P. At the last moment she changed her mind.?? ??Well. 1990); and ?C somewhat surprisingly ?C An Agent in Place by Thomas Whiteside (Ballantine. I thought I wouldn??t be starting at S. Control was everything. It was a slow process. 11.?? Blomkvist said. Not only that; she was terribly frightened. She had her first client meeting at 8. I??ll listen to what you have to say.?? ??A whole bunch of crimes.M. ??I just collapsed in exhaustion last night. I wonder ???? ??Yes??? ??She was so covered with dirt. When the name Zalachenko turned up in the preliminary investigation. but does this mean that Ekstr?m is working for the Section??? Blomkvist frowned. if I understood correctly. Ghidi soon discovered that being a well-educated and experienced construction engineer counted for nothing.

?? ??Well. nodded. If the attack alarm is sounded. he arranged. it would soak up all of Millennium??s time. Berger did not care if Borgsj? was or was not chairman of the board of Vitavara Inc. One of the robbers had a mid-length jacket with a Swedish flag shoulder patch. If you can??t rejuvenate this paper. Three times Paulsson had asked the urgently occupied medical orderly whether the girl could be arrested on the spot. and he was offering her a chance to escape in a very different way. That is serious. ??Lesbian Satanist gang?? ?? where the hell do you get this stuff? Not to mention her being sought in connection with three murders she had nothing to do with. ??One flight up. ??Thanks. This was the ninth anonymous message she had received containing the word ??whore.K. And one last question. agents everywhere. knowing things about her that Giannini did not. ??Are you going to examine me??? Salander said.

She looked at the officers in sullen silence as they came into her room and pulled up chairs.?? she said. Gullberg had a single slice of bread and a cup of black coffee in Frey??s caf??. Let??s take it as a working hypothesis that Bjurman raped her and that she somehow took her revenge. nor could she see him in the newsroom.15 and rolled out of Salander??s bed. She knew that Blomkvist was doing a lot of whispering with Cortez and Eriksson and Malm about the Salander story. compared to all other handguns. The Section became a micro-organization within the Division ?C outside. Gunnar Bj?rck. the trail will fizzle out. and started reading the Bj?rck report while she ate her sandwich.S. Finally he manoeuvred the cart into the cubbyhole. she armed herself with the canister of Mace. Classify TOP SECRET. All the police reports on the case were collected up at S. Carefully she wrote the password MonkeyBusiness. Who uses the address centraled@smpost. a black leather jacket and running shoes.

it??s time. bad cop.?? she said. He had started out from Laholm just after 8. all of which had contained the word ??whore. ??Yes ?? well ?? he said he needed to know exactly how many pieces of wood were in there. definite advice. After stonewalling his way through five police interrogations. sixty-three. ??Why haven??t we heard anything about this??? ??Blomkvist put it like this: there??s only one right time to publish a story.?? ??Or else she shot him in the foot out of sheer sadism. I followed up with her until she turned eighteen.?? ??I assume it came up during the interview???? ??Anders. I would consider some form of autism. 1989. and finish the job. At 9. One part concerns Zalachenko. has never heard of it. disappeared.

if a group of police officers decided to stretch the laws so that an individual??s constitutionally guaranteed rights were infringed. ??You know what? I??m incredibly hungry. She gave him twenty minutes to deal with his post.?? ??What was that??? ??F?lldin??s visitors?? logbook at Rosenbad. and he was looking forward to that assignment. I have the keys to your apartment and a passport in name of Nesser. I need his help to do a simple job. said they would fix it first thing in the morning.I. codes that she glanced at.?? he said. Worked first in Uppsala and then in S?dert?lje. She looked for other options. ??How does that work in practice??? ??That??s a very good question. ??If he??s out of the country. Besides. The big question within the Security Police was to what extent personnel control would be given special authority to investigate foreign citizens residing in Sweden. Objectively.?? ??Which part was truth and which part was fantasy. He quoted the newspaper headlines about lesbian Satanists and the media??s apparent hope that the murders might have involved S.

Four or five more of the same. ??I assume that this is bound to leak to the media. In the ??60s he became chief of some outfit called the Section for Special Analysis. She worked first in the Violent Crime Division and then in the unit that specialized in financial crime. The Zalachenko club. What should have happened is that you should have taken the information to Holm.?? Frisk scratched his head. Something had come up and she would be in a little later than usual. on the first of May. a change of clothes. That??s not what I??m saying. I beg you not to reject me. That??s much more serious. where Figuerola had parked. Gunnar. That drove him to such depths of despair that he took his own life.?? ??What do you mean??? ??It means that I have no legitimate reason to keep you isolated here.?? the Minister of Justice said. But he??s greedy. there is no doubt that Lisbeth Salander was shot and buried alive on his property in Gosseberga.

She used Mace and kicked Lundin in the balls and face with such aggression that she crushed one of his testicles and then broke his jaw. ??Before we begin to discuss anything. Bonuses should be paid to people who do something to strengthen S. engineers. That is. ??Do you mind if I check??? He made his usual examination. She had nothing specific to work on.M. He had been chief of Secretariat for a decade. frowning when Wadensj?? lit a cigarillo. And you don??t have to answer if you don??t want to.?? Blomkvist smiled. at least until each of them has been identified. She had brought a green military bag containing her laptop. but she was too weak to protest.?? ??This doesn??t mean that I distrust you. You??re withholding information. and chewing was out of the question. The heavy weapons cabinet stood wide open. I cannot help you.

for the life of him he could not comprehend how she had managed to dig herself out of Niedermann??s trench. ??I spent the whole afternoon going over Henry??s documentation. furthermore. 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. I??ve been sent to invite you. Jonasson did not hesitate to classify Salander??s condition as critical. since Niedermann had not yet been captured. has been sent out on this Ronald Niedermann.?? Gullberg shook his head. ??This is what I want you to do. He knew that G?ransson was the one who handled the money. So go to your superior and tell him what I??ve said. 3. ??Hello.K. ??First-class research. perhaps you could help me with a matter I don??t quite understand ?? as one doctor to another.?? Edklinth swallowed and nodded.?? the Minister of Justice said. Absentmindedly she read his email.

wasn??t established until four months later. Someone from N. The paper has to be rejuvenated.?? Edklinth frowned.S. born in 1917. and he would not exchange his appointment for any other position in the entire Swedish legal system or police force. It was 9. it seems to be a small-calibre bullet.?? ??That ?? wasn??t so good. and almost at once fell asleep. He worked as a newspaper boy.?? Malm sat motionless for a few seconds. she fumed. But I can see to it that you get a nicotine patch or some gum. He took a pinch of snuff. Luckily she does accept information. He did not seem to take in anything that Blomkvist said. Jonas??? Sandberg glanced at Wadensj??. two police inspectors were given fifteen minutes to ask her questions.

Thomasson knew that the money came from criminal activity. he had become the father of Camilla and Lisbeth Salander. stuffed into a laundry room. Shall I show you where to find Editor-in-Chief Morander? I should say ??outgoing editor-in-chief????? ??Thank you. And that would have to mean that locking you up in 1991 was illegal.v Salander spent most of Wednesday night and early Thursday morning reading Blomkvist??s articles and the chapters of the Millennium book that were more or less finished. After five days of investigations.?? ??That??s no excuse. I followed up with her until she turned eighteen. He followed me like a guilty conscience for at least a week. I didn??t know that.20 before Cortez called. and he was offering her a chance to escape in a very different way. ??His name is Evert Gullberg and he??s seventy-eight years old.?? ??I??m sorry. He knows that at the end of this conversation a scandal awaits that the government might not survive. He remembers Sandberg quite well. That??s a horrendous statistic. then she signalled yes. And we can??t allow that to happen.

Bublanski looked at the notes from his meeting with Ekstr?m. Psychiatry. He was still at Millennium. ??I??ve decided that Salander should be moved to a different room. the most her lawyer could do was to file a report with the Parliamentary Ombudsman. nothing more.00 on Friday night. He was also an excellent and cold-blooded organizer. It looks like the original. But of course things have become more complicated technically. puzzled. and in 1999 he had registered his own company. Either we ancients step in and do our bit.?? ??I see. She frowned. We chatted for a couple of minutes. If this were a regular police investigation of an ordinary crime. I was Dr L?derman??s assistant when he was in practice. We??ve just fine-tuned it. a member of the police.

make her way to his farm. He looked through it for a minute before he found the number. the general secretary of the Swedish Helsinki Committee. His fascination was extinguished the moment he had cracked a computer.M. if she??s well enough. She wondered why she. They relied heavily on computers connected to the incident reporting network of the regular police. He would need crutches. We have not yet identified exactly who is involved. Zalachenko. ??At my house.O.10. almost too close. ??I talked with Bublanski half an hour ago. She realized that she was sufficiently recovered now that she could have walked out of the hospital. and a rapist. but her breathing was not quite normal.?? He burst out laughing.

The screen changed again and now had a blue background with the text: [Welcome to Hacker Republic.?? ??Indeed??? ??But morally it??s the right thing to do. and Edklinth had examined the reports in the archive.50.?? ??I see.I. The job itself will last for a couple of weeks. She had been with Borgsj? for forty-five minutes without mentioning one syllable about Vitavara. I haven??t. ??We??ve got a positive I. ??Now let me say my piece.?? she said. ??Torsten Edklinth has been given the task of finding out whether we can confirm this.?? He looked almost apologetic. Then the older of the two receptionists noticed who had just come into the office.?? said the Minister of Justice.U. She knew the text by heart already. don??t!?? she screamed and then took a step back. I don??t know whether that affects things.

from where he took a taxi to Centraal. But then she realized that this isn??t exactly your style and then ???? ??Then??? ??Well. She heard the nurse go down the corridor to the left. He turned his head to the right and saw the exit at the other end. You must be a raving masochist. and he??s probably been trying to protect him. So I want to know if you hear of anything going on. Giannini had planned her visit to G?teborg as a brisk. my sister Annika. and opened the folder of notes from her last conversation with Salander. Then he walked decisively back to Zalachenko??s room and closed the door. including the fact that Salander??s father. Then she went down to Hornsgaten and hailed a taxi.?? He paused and looked around the room. It was 9. She was tall. but I hoped you might be able to give me private lessons.00.?? Sandberg said lightly.?? Blomkvist said calmly.

and in A. except for 1991 when he deliberately voted against the moderates because he believed that Carl Bildt was a realpolitik catastrophe.?? ??Take us to a restaurant where we can get some decent food. Gullberg was suddenly a big player: he was welcomed with respect in the exclusive club of selected warriors. ??I don??t want to get into it.?? Edklinth said at last.?? ??And the answer is ????? ??We don??t know.?? said Holmberg. married to Hans Wilhelm Francke. after all. So Dr Jonasson was the goalkeeper who stood between the patient and Fonus Funeral Service. to ?? what? A complete loony? Salander might be innocent of murder. too.?? she said. had made some damaging discovery about Millennium??s chairman of the board (who happened to be herself) ?C they would not have hesitated either. Somehow he had to establish contact with her. some pathologically obsessed ones who stalked celebrities and looked for love by hiding in woods near their villas. Saturday.?? ??Same here.?? ??Does it not??? ??Herr Blomkvist.

But after what happened today I??m more than ever persuaded that you were the ideal choice. * Salander opened her eyes when she heard a scraping sound. Trinity was born in Bradford.?? ??I notice that you have golf clubs planted here and there around the house. so the torture continued. Or. as like as not. as far as I can see. Bj?rck was a mystery. Or if he felt betrayed and wanted to get even. He had started out from Laholm just after 8. a de facto coup has taken place in Sweden. She free-associated.?? ??How did you find out Niedermann was in Gosseberga??? Blomkvist shrugged. I don??t think so. The personnel department had no information about what Bj?rck had been working on in 1991. 1988); Secret Forces by Jan Ottosson and Lars Magnusson (Tiden. the number of readers will drop and the number of advertisers too.?? ??Which makes it even stranger that he hasn??t been found. ??What??s happened??? he said.

O. then it was with these lunatics. On the other hand. right ?? here??s what it says in the daily memo: quote.?? ??The old bastard had a pistol.?? he said. making the Section responsible for Zalachenko??s safety and debriefing. or could he be borrowed for an investigation in Constitutional Protection? The assistant chief of Counter-Espionage was puzzled. Blomkvist supposed that she had not planned to come back. And this evening Edklinth has been reporting on how the investigation is proceeding.C.?? Gullberg said. Frustration was gnawing at him. ??That won??t happen now. There??s bleeding there.?? ??But isn??t Russia a democracy now too? I mean. How hard is it to hack into my email? Salander can do it in five minutes. researcher or media that had carried out a critical examination of S?po. He was slightly surprised that the Swedish Security Police had been able to penetrate the Russian military to the degree Nystr?m was describing. ??Thanks.

She had a routine that I can??t compete with. We don??t have a shred of evidence leftSUNDAY. we??ve landed in a constitutional crisis. But not one of us wants to hurt you. But their proposal to shut down the Swedish government was not an idle threat. agents everywhere. But I know how to handle those two. He??s a journalist who happened to stumble upon one of the most secret operations ever conducted by Swedish defence. we have a journalistic responsibility.iv Modig and Holmberg arrived at G?teborg Central Station just after 8. 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. and why he had run for his life instead of staying to finish Salander off. was supposed to have access to everything. You??ll have to do something about the food at this place.?? ??I??m on her side. But why not smuggle in the mobile too? Ah.?? ??You don??t quite understand the hard economic facts.?? he said. Hallberg is retiring this year..

the garage. but he??s on disability leave.M.?? Blomkvist absorbed this news. How in God??s name could he have been so bloody stupid? She wondered whether there might be an alternative explanation or some mitigating circumstances.?? Giannini understood Dr Jonasson??s reasoning.v Blomkvist left the Millennium offices at 10. and damn near destroy him with two blows of an axe.?? she said.?? Eriksson said. The first hours of her workday had been taken up entirely with meetings. You know. and squeezed the trigger. Sandberg put down his chopsticks. it sounds like she might need a criminal lawyer.?? Gullberg said slowly. ??I??ve read Dag Svensson??s manuscript. the case isn??t exactly rock solid. That meant they had been dead maybe twenty-four hours. I don??t want to get flabby.