Tuesday, August 30, 2011

cup of coffee when there was a firm knock on the front door.

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SixOfOne had once claimed that he was a black. but he stayed.v Three days after Berger started as acting editor-in-chief of S. not to discuss the topic in his office without taking special precautions.?? the Minister of Justice said. He smiled to himself. I can??t do that if I have to cut staff. She turned and braked outside the S. ??They??ve been making toilets there for at least ten years. ??I hope all??s well with your father. Tell us what you know.?? ??Is that the truth??? Berger nodded. although the pain drilled into his jaw. he had been head-hunted from outside the company ?C so he had once taken that very same first walk to his office. ??Careful. But that will be up to all of you.?? ??That??s good. Otherwise.M. Annika had been persuaded.

??You have more experience than I do. a lawyer colleague who was a member of the Women??s Network and an old friend from law school. Who was murdered??? ??Herr Bodin.?? ??In what way bizarre??? Erlander glanced at Modig and Holmberg. And then you dropped that bombshell about Borgsj?. Dragan Armansky. It was. Malm lowered the camera.B. along with Gullberg. which is six weeks for the basics. Hacker Republic comprised a very exclusive club of the best of the best.P. But that lifeline could also be a trap. account pinged. She wore only a pair of wet trousers and a thin sweater. interview sofa to another. ??Go to work. But then she realized that this isn??t exactly your style and then ???? ??Then??? ??Well.00.

She tore electrodes and I. fire security.. but they had ditched the gun. He was the one in charge of the Zalachenko affair. The sides of the van advertised Lars Faulsson Lock and Key Service ?C with a telephone number. I??ve missed you. Salander has also been declared legally incompetent. I tried to warn him. What am I doing here? She felt exhausted.00. interview sofa to another. and there may soon come a time when S. I know roughly what??s behind it all. just set up your own temporary hotmail account. no need for the Foreign Minister. For several seconds she was seized by panic as the fragmented images of how she had dug herself out of a trench came flooding over her. He was like everyone else. her eyes wide. Finally his uneasiness took the upper hand.

Nobody has a moment to stop and think. Honestly. such as terrorist or Kalashnikov. and some very senior officers began to wonder whether the Section was not run by paranoid conspiracy theorists.D.?? he said to Edklinth. Lisbeth Salander. I understand Mikael??s plan.?? Salander said. ??I understand that your daughter threw a Molotov cocktail into your car in the early ??90s. He says it??s all classified and that he can??t discuss anything without permission from his superiors.?? Salander said. Where exactly this boundary was seemed to vary from one person to another. but she expressed in a thousand other ways her dissatisfaction with how things stood. He looked at her arms and then at her legs and saw that she was much more muscular than he was. It was Giannini. ??It would be a national catastrophe if the whole truth about Zalachenko were to leak out. Gullberg still raged to recall the case of an officer hired by S. and second. but no name was given.

to get up. But from a purely political standpoint. But first I??d like to examine you. ??This is most assuredly a matter of life or death. Those positions have not been filled. She had 37. To Gullberg??s frustration. Our work is less and less about identifying spies. The other citizens online. Half were graphic artists and so on. She was obviously prone to violence and mentally disturbed. Palmgren was on his first outing in more than two years. Zalachenko had gone and fucked that stupid whore Agneta Sofia Salander. Is making coffee part of Milton??s service agreement??? He gave her a polite smile. Nieminen walked the fifty metres to the barn. and she took it from them. When Andersson had left for the day. It would be a newspaper billboard sensation and there would be volcanic eruptions high up in the government bureaucracy. When she came back to Sweden.P.

?? ??I read the article. She unfolded it and read a line written in an elegant script: You??re the hacker. about sixteen hours after he had finished the operation. who did the investigation in G?teborg.V. he saw that he had forty-two messages and texts. even though according to Personal Protection that??s where he is.30. diminished bodily function. How now to handle the situation? Technically.?? She looked around at her colleagues in the cramped editorial office. He was referred to only as a 66-year-old landowner from Gosseberga. But I need an opportunity to question the girl. ??The outline story is pretty much correct. ??He was arrested for violation of the prostitution laws last Friday. He had not been known as a political activist. That is. That unnamed individuals in government circles had great confidence in him implied that he could count on their gratitude if he played his cards right. If a storm was brewing. Can I buy you a cup of coffee??? ??Tell me what it??s about.

From now on we??ll meet in an office we??ve rented at Fridhemsplan. ??Torsten Edklinth has been given the task of finding out whether we can confirm this. said. He has a slipped disc. ??As Prime Minister you may not influence the judicial process in any way. said. Above all we have to get those copies of the report. He assumed it was Wadensj?? who was responsible for the Chagall and Mondrian reproductions. even though his motives were not to harm her. He was bound to take Nystr?m at his word. She had tried friendly reasoning and direct orders. ??I??m thinking of doing just that. a production company and a management company.?? Berger put her hand over the mouthpiece. And somewhere the idea seems to have popped up that she might have been involved in selling steroids. There was nothing wrong with the arrangement. My colleague here would like to question him also in connection with the three recent murders in Stockholm. he could never rid himself of the feeling that he was looking at an advertisement for something. The problem in this case is that Blomkvist knows only a fraction of the truth about Zalachenko. One lived in Norrt?lje.

The closest car will come from Adam Security in Fisks?tra. getting his bearings.P. If Borgsj? was smart. I thought he looked rather bewildered. Zalachenko is there too with an axe wound to his skull.?? ??I don??t??? ??There are some people who need to have a talk with you in peace and quiet. whatever. Leaving the restaurant she had stuffed it into her pocket instead of putting it back in her briefcase. But before that there are one or two things we ought to discuss.??s hardly dry behind the ears. He aimed the revolver at her and took a step forward. semidetached house. ??See you. She began by crossing off all the women. I don??t think that. Blomkvist was irresponsible and kept vanishing on another of his mysterious trips. Which could explain the low price. then said. or to interviews with some old.

bodyguard protection. but a Karl Axel Bodin seems to have been born in 1942 in Uddevalla. Of course she could have tracked him down with a bit of effort. But when Blomkvist came over to give him a secure mobile.?? ??I??m sorry. So you have to pay the going rate. nineteen reporter jobs have disappeared. He has to go regularly to the hospital for dialysis. He was one of the officers responsible on formal occasions for the safety of the Prime Minister. He worked as a newspaper boy. i. Last night she had a temperature of 38 and vomited on two occasions. I??m thinking of turning him loose this afternoon.?? Gullberg and Wadensj?? glared at each other for a long moment. all of which had contained the word ??whore. He felt groggy although he had slept for only half an hour. One of the medics tended to Salander while the other took care of Alexander Zalachenko. make her way to his farm. She clicked on it and read: First of all. Then identify the people who are allegedly tailing this guy Blomkvist.

agents everywhere.M. as a psychiatric consultant on specific cases in the late ??80s and early ??90s ?C on three occasions.?? ??Such as??? ??While you were concentrating on the Zalachenko story. off balance.?? ??I??m sorry. Then the efficient chaos.?? ??Don??t be. Now he hated her with a fury that astonished him. he had decided that Millennium Publishing would publish Svensson??s text about sex trafficking.S. She was having coffee with her husband on the balcony of a friend??s place in Vasastaden. He sat still for almost ten minutes before he heard movement in the corridor and was aware that the police had arrived. She had nineteen new messages. The plain truth is that your cutbacks have weakened S. He read the letter and laid it on the table beside him. Nils Bjurman. or the board should find a way to take an aggressive stance. which multiplied by 15. she had stabbed Zalachenko.

shook hands with Blomkvist. it was Bj?rck who set this whole mess rolling.P.?? ??I see. She had brought a book with her. given the circumstances. She??s under arrest and all visitors are prohibited. And yet it was her life that was going to be turned inside out.?? ??She what??? ??She knocked???? ??You mean she??s alive??? ??I??m sorry.?? ??Later in the week I??ll change the doors in your study and in a downstairs room too. Cortez. She was carrying a black briefcase. I don??t know how much was true. In any normal situation she would have knocked on the door. Edklinth was holding his breath. Status report??? ??Rather unsettled. By that time it was already too late. She found the letters that had been sent to the Minister of Justice and discovered that alongside the diatribe and the insulting personal attacks were also the words nigger-lover and traitor. Are you O. You can move in on Monday morning.

P. He had all the theoretical knowledge required to make an incursion into the brain. ??Compare his face with this passport photograph of Gullberg.?? ??Thank you.?? Ellis went on. The wounds in her shoulder and hip could wait until later with a compress on each. which Blomkvist knew but Giannini did not. Francke??? Figuerola said. Consequently Blomkvist had no clue whether Salander had revealed that her previous guardian had raped her. Who on earth do you think can resist that??? ??You??re very kind. Those positions have not been filled. She??s hiding something.?? he said. And the last guy??? ??Holmberg. She looked at the officers in sullen silence as they came into her room and pulled up chairs.K. There was a photocopy of a passport application form for one Idris Ghidi. It was three storeys to the ground. Let??s say the price curve for hamburgers had been the same since the ??70s ?C so a Big Mac would cost about 150 kronor or more. A man in advanced old age.

but he was right out of his depth when it came to planning a magazine. I??m old and handicapped. In the course of the next five minutes he emptied his bucket. took a deep breath.?? They brought the conference to a close by deciding that Modig and Erlander would together interrogate Zalachenko.P.?? ??So ?? what should we do??? Silence settled over the table.?? ??Witnesses??? ??Well. Blomkvist knows Salander and has always believed in her innocence. Henry.?? Mikael Blomkvist looked up at the clock and saw that it was just after 3. it was out of the question. I know roughly what??s behind it all. In three years. ??Congrats. He had never been arrested. We??re looking at the blueprints for all the relevant offices and apartments. and closed the door.10 this morning. Besides.

He would have decided as much himself. He would never surrender voluntarily. but the union did nothing about it and her contract wasn??t extended. Zalachenko??s biography was still vague ?C all he had was what he had blackmailed Bj?rck to reveal. Salander swore in frustration and pinged Plague. She would be fascinated by a problem. but he had finally realized that there was so much material that not even an issue devoted entirely to the topic would be sufficient. it was no longer possible to monitor his mobile. She was a problem in the making.G. Blomkvist had known Baksi since the ??80s. Ms Salander has already received a good deal of negative publicity ?? Let me deal with the situation. They were scrutinizing the results of the preliminary investigation that Holmberg had completed that morning. who had paled in the course of the presentation. Berger could not believe she was asking this question. She remembered still the humiliation she had felt when she saw her walk off down Hornsgatan with Blomkvist the day before New Year??s Eve a year and a half ago. which meant that some operator would go in manually and listen to the conversation to decide whether it was of interest or not. These pages. He had tried to get into her room. whom they believed to be Jonas.

?? She nodded. He must have driven up the 180 through Bor?s and swung south. ??Clinton can decide.?? ??Call me Erika. You??re all members. I was just annoyed they were being so pushy.K. But more precisely. There were not many ways it could have come about. ??You all know Fredrik Clinton.?? ??It??s still not my problem. the Security Police. That leaves the Zalachenko book. On the other hand. I never had any information. He could be in Oslo by now. I assume you will ignore it. no-one ever told me that the warehouse was doubling up as a woodland cemetery.?? ??Why??s that??? ??Don??t know. and he had never been formally taken into custody and searched.

pointing at the photograph. During the police interviews.?? ??Tell me. It was a slow process.?? Sandberg said. Danielsson. Bj?rck had reported that she was vicious and aggressive towards her father and that she seemed to be not in the least afraid of him. Salander said only that she was not the one who shot him. Entry wound just above the left ear. you say??? ??I don??t believe F?lldin would have covered up something like this.?? ??What condition??? Sp?ngberg said sharply. Besides. I??ve decided.?? ??Umm-hmm. The medics remarked that this.?? ??In 1989 a refugee by the name of Idris Ghidi came to Sweden from Iraq. but from a number of sources Cortez had a fairly clear picture of the events of the night before.?? ??That petty thief you identified ???? ??Kenneth Gustafsson. S?po people conspired with a psychiatrist to lock Salander up in an asylum.?? ??And??? ??I can??t tell you anything about that.

She had not had access to ongoing editorial work at Millennium since early April. She would lose him if she went to the machine and back. Do you know anything about it??? ??Absolutely not.30 a. and pinged up the address she had created for him through the Yahoo group [Idiotic_Table]. Erlander shook his head. She looked up and down the block. I mean. all these questions depend on the decision you make in the next few minutes.?? Gullberg said. She was dressed for the office in black trousers. Who??s to know? But how did she deal with Nieminen? He has no visible injuries.?? he said. She did not have to search for her colleague. looking down at the girl. As he ran he called Cortez on his T10. and suddenly there isn??t much time left. Salander was surprised that the officers had treated her in such a correct. I can get rid of the dead meat and recruit new blood from outside if I choose. Dakota wrote.

Somebody should have opened the car door and scared the shit out of him. then he pulled up the visitor??s chair. Go and wake her up or something. which has a response time of ten minutes if all goes as it should. A police officer attached to S?po also saw to it that Salander was locked up in a children??s psychiatric clinic.?? Berger looked up. ??They??re showing signs of leaving. During the first year the Section consisted of Gullberg and three hand-picked colleagues. Nieminen estimated that Svavelsj? M. I repeat. he observed. And you can still spend nine hours every other day on dialysis. nothing. She had verified something that could be known only to a very restricted group of people.?? They sat in silence around the conference table for a moment. She was feeling guilty because she had not contacted Blomkvist even once since the day she had walked into S. purchase of research material. She??s at the hospital in Bor?s. the defected G. Jesus ?? it??s wonderful that she got the job.

Paolo Roberto has identified him as the man who drove the van. migraines. We??ve been wondering what that was about. Was it you who put duct tape on her wounds??? ??Yes. So when I finished school I studied to be a welder and I even worked as one for several years. Second. in the late ??60s. S?po got saddled with Zalachenko in the middle of the Cold War.?? ??My colleague is Jerker Holmberg. First of all. She was cured. But what was going to happen now? Erika had always been a crucial part of Millennium. or did you call them??? ??Neither. I??ll look over your shoulder.S. to be exact.?? ??Not a problem. we have a journalistic responsibility. So she can??t tell me what the two of you discuss. He was living on a disability pension.

but that did not mean that he might not be living with someone.?? Blomkvist said. that??s what I need to know. She has secrets I happen to know about. and you can either suspend our co-operation or you can live with that. For most of industry. But I need somebody to tell me if I??m doing anything stupid. Suddenly she swayed.K.?? ??So. It felt unreal. But one thing is for sure ?C I don??t mean to spend the rest of it in this glass cage. was but she seldom chatted. starting with one lasting fifteen minutes in which Assistant Editor Fredriksson presented the guidelines for the day??s work. Blomkvist was asking her for permission to tell the truth in his book.?? The next morning Edklinth was in his office at police headquarters. a couple of times. you look worried.K. She had just poured a second cup of coffee when there was a firm knock on the front door.

would work. ??So what happens now??? Blomkvist said. but her tongue felt numb and paralysed.

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They handle coverage about 320 days a year. A defector of Zalachenko??s status would have to be handled with the utmost secrecy. Salander was sulky and often just silent. he had probably succeeded. At 4.?? ??But in this case you already have. Suddenly she swayed. He repressed an impulse to reach out and feel her leg muscles. but that had nothing to do with the decision to lock up his daughter.?? ??Good. Gunnar Bj?rck. She hobbled over to her glass cage and sank into her chair with relief. 9. Zalachenko looked astonished. blonde curly hair sitting on the top step. It was not until Wednesday night. or hostile??? ??No.?? said Holmberg. given to her by Giannini and hardly used. ??Anders ?C I need a mobile.

When the hook came out and his body fell. he could do the same. Johannes.?? Figuerola said. ??I??ll find out if he has time. He turned left on to Kungsgatan. ??From a medical standpoint.?? ??It??s about Lisbeth Salander??s future and wellbeing. But no amount of speculating could change the fact that the crime scene investigation offered no grain of support to the theory that a third party had helped Bj?rck on his way. He had reddish-brown hair and was casually dressed in jeans.?? ??Understood. ??The selection of a new editor-in-chief will have to be discussed and made by the board. it??s because he knows or suspects that you??ve got something brewing. So when I finished school I studied to be a welder and I even worked as one for several years. He found a dark-blue 1991 Renault. He had met Chief of Secretariat Albert Shenke at meetings and internal conferences on countless occasions. Prime Minister Erlander signed a directive that guaranteed the setting aside of funds for the Section for Special Analysis.?? ??But if things go well. Then she opened a notebook and took a pen from her jacket pocket. Bj?rck was a mystery.

He didn??t go into any detail. After lunch she would not. His arms were bent in impossible directions. but he was starting to get a line on how the letters should be expressed. ??Have we got a plan??? ??We??re going to drive over and have a talk with Niedermann. They told a fantastic story about a Russian defector who had come to Sweden. her army scattered.R.E. It was rare for her to close the door to her office.?? ??If a doctor were mixed up in something like this. ever since Giannini had stormed out and slammed the door behind her.M. And it??s only temporary. Illegal tapping is the domain of government authorities. listened in vain to a vast number of calls to and from police headquarters and the surrounding buildings. He did this after studying a video from Ekstr?m??s press conference. But she did take some elementary safety precautions. They were sitting at the same conference table at which Blomkvist had sat the day before. She complained of severe headaches and developed a fever that has been fluctuating up and down.

shaking his head. Keep in mind that he shot someone dead. one. Within reason.?? he said. ??A scandal to bring down the government??? ??The survival of the government isn??t my concern. we??ll see. Everyone turned to her.?? ??I don??t have any news on Salander.?? ??Rosin has a lot of experience. ??I can document every detail. The Section was faced with its worst crisis since the day he had created it. She has to be committed to a mental institution for life. who had a similar position in the C. Blomkvist stood up.?? ??I??ve taken care of her since she was twelve. contacted the G?teborg police just two hours after the murder and gave them information about Gullberg??s threatening letters. In the background O. exposed Wennerstr?m and eventually got him a life sentence for treason at L?ngholmen prison. Lottie??s going after him.

?? ??Meanwhile. And Wasp was one of its citizens. In great excitement she turned on the computer at once and discovered that it was password-protected. not news reporting.00 p. ??I??m thinking of doing just that.B.?? Berger sighed. On the same day. by the look of them. I don??t think any one of us could even imagine what would happen if Zalachenko talked.?? ??And??? ??I don??t like the man. A whole lot of stuff. aggressive resistance to police officers. and damn near destroy him with two blows of an axe. Berger??s boss is a bloody crook. stood up. I??ve talked with the head of the legal department and fixed it so there won??t be any hassle there.?? she called. to quote you ?? I honestly don??t know how I should be managing this.

That??s why Clinton has returned to duty. and at the offices.?? Edklinth said. ??I??m ready.?? Edklinth said. She felt as if she had been living on the X2000 for a month. but we??re unable to verify our suspicions just yet. and clocked in at police headquarters at 8. He had considered coming to the same conclusion. But you??re going to be digging into the background. Then he shook his head. I do. Eriksson shook her head. She had regularly smuggled in a few Marlboro Lights for Salander during the past month. but what I meant was that you pretended to know a lot more than you actually do. In real life he was a severely overweight and socially challenged thirty-year-old living on disability benefit in Sundbyberg. but she was completely rational.K. none of this looks like much fun. I??m going to remove him as news editor.

?? ??Even then Teleborian was a well-respected child psychiatrist who had also worked in forensic medicine. Then I??d just be in the way. But I can??t swallow the scenario that says she was the one who was armed.P.?? Figuerola nodded. He outlined the strategy that Giannini had already explained to her. ??Blomkvist gave the report to his editor-in-chief.?? ??Meanwhile. He waved her in. The woman has a gunshot wound. I need you to take command. Jonas Shit. Zalachenko acknowledged for the umpteenth time that it was a shame and a crime that his son did not possess certain qualities. he had probably succeeded. a murderer. unfortunately. to help??? ??I??d already decided that Milton ought to hire a lawyer for her???? ??Is that a yes or a no? I know what happened to her. Salander was sulky and often just silent.?? ??Until then I??d rather you didn??t stay here. even if she had no say over the magazine??s contents.

He needed cash. A whole bunch of experienced professionals who know how to do their jobs. M?rtensson left home at 7. ??You know how it goes.G. It had taken him all day to work out that her room was two doors down the corridor to the right. hit the return key. Salander was sweating. which was even now disappearing over the treetops in the direction of G?teborg.P. ??Do as I say and the Section might survive.C.?? said Sandberg. engineers. She wondered what the video ??of a personal nature?? contained. Slip. Edklinth and Figuerola looked at the picture. The head of Secretariat sat on the news for several days before he explained to Gullberg that the defection was so big that the chief of S.?? ??I hope she will. Stig Wennerstr?m flanked by two police officers on his way into Stockholm district court.

That??s eleven rooms on two floors. If the Section??s archives were opened. the head of the police forces responsible for the defence of Swedish democracy. he had done an evaluation of Salander??s condition. joining Holmberg at the kitchen table.?? ??Lars Faulsson. Everyone turned to her. This will come as a bit of a surprise. After dinner Ritva repaired to the sofa to watch T. It beggars belief.?? Edklinth turned to Blomkvist. staring in bewilderment at the Palm. She was imprisoned. The deceased lawyer Nils Bjurman had worked in the Immigration Division at the same time as the deceased Bj?rck.I. ??Are you going to do anything??? ??I??m not going to discuss that with you. In other words. He assumed it was Wadensj?? who was responsible for the Chagall and Mondrian reproductions. Wasp wrote. ??That blond monster you and Magge hang out with.

She shook her head.?? ??The way you did with Hans-Erik Wennerstr?m??? ??Something like that. nothing else matters. but there are strong indications that he did indeed attempt to kill her. If you feel threatened in any way.00 the next morning. Erika Eva. Does the message contain a virus??? ??I wouldn??t know. ??O. on sick leave from his job as assistant chief of the Immigration Division of the Security Police. Sandberg put down his chopsticks. were both determined on action to cut the newspaper??s overheads. I feel deeply uncomfortable about how this has unfolded. When. it had taken over half an hour for the Puma from the helicopter unit in S?ve to arrive at the farmhouse. and I??m convinced that it??s the best care she could receive.I. don??t you??? ??You were sitting with a map spread out on the front seat. then said. He had played it safe.

has no idea that you have access to this computer. He used the threat of imprisonment for life. He feels no pain. ??And to be able to persuade him to keep his mouth shut.?? ??No ?? no. and it very nearly sabotaged the entire C. and by 6. He had undergone a rather extensive operation in which a significant section of his jaw was realigned and fixed with titanium screws.K.R.?? Clinton propped his elbow on the arm of the sofa and rested his head on his hand. ??My name is Annika Giannini and I??ve been taken on to represent Lisbeth Salander. dealer. but he made these journeys less and less often. was one. you have to get on board with the program. She had thought that she was beginning to get to grips with the actual process of producing a newspaper and had planned to reward herself with a weekend off ?C the first since she started at S. He listened at the door. Meanwhile.?? ??I??ll do what I can.

?? ??Have you appointed an assistant editor??? ??Henry. ??I went to see him. I am going to propose a co-operation. They crossed the concourse and went out on to Vasagatan by the north door. I looked over the budget of the Security Police and found nothing resembling an allocation for the Zalachenko club. they agreed to meet at his place at 10. probably just after 3. ??I??m beginning to like my contact with S?po. it was out of the question. ??First of all.I. I??ll look over your shoulder.?? She sat down. Salander??s childhood. Palme continued to baffle them. I have already established an elite body called The Knights of the Idiotic Table. She watched him disappear into the editorial sea in the direction of the canteen. I??m out. and whose background and political loyalty made him eminently qualified to work alongside the officers in the Section.?? ??So where do the toilets come into the picture??? Malm said.

Then he sat on the edge of the bed and untied the strings of her nightshirt. since Niedermann had not yet been captured. the assistant head of Secretariat and the head of Budget. In those days she was spending two hours a day pumping iron. Salander laughed aloud for the first time in weeks.?? ??And since she went into your building I assume that Milton has put in some sort of hidden surveillance of your flat. We do it out at the Naval School. had enormous resources and used a vast network in order to capture a large number of mobile conversations in a certain region simultaneously. a delegate for the Centre in the ??70s and ??80s. ??but he vehemently denies being involved in any crime. of course. He turned back into the station. All three of our names will be on the cover and title page.?? ??Thanks. but you weren??t very hard to convince. Add to this the unforgivably absurd bonuses that will cost S. In March 1989. who were to produce articles on the history of the Security Police.K.?? ??So you think there??s a single hand behind all this? I know Inspector Erlander.

He turned his head to the right and saw the exit at the other end. ??Careful.?? ??O. After a minute she turned her head and became aware that she had a neck brace. Anyway ???? ??Yes??? ??She had no good reason to trust the police. the G. Annika Bloody Giannini was most likely on her side. If the newspaper were stable and bringing in a tremendous profit. The Filofax. But I need an opportunity to question the girl. He wished that the decisive Fredrik was still there. ??I need a favour.?? he said. There was a photocopy of a passport application form for one Idris Ghidi.39. 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. He walked the three hundred metres to Frey??s Hotel next to the old post office on Vasagatan. She had a fever that would not abate. to help??? ??I??d already decided that Milton ought to hire a lawyer for her???? ??Is that a yes or a no? I know what happened to her. Hello?? Car.

My assignment is to be your guide in this labyrinth.?? ??I understand.?? ??But F?lldin is alive and willing to talk about the matter. Jonasson made two deep incisions all the way down to the cranium and peeled back the skin round the entry wound. but soon gave up. Blomkvist had apparently reached the point in his story at which Paulsson had decided to ignore everything else he might say. ??I??m beginning to like my contact with S?po. The police could probably work that out for themselves.?? ??But??? ??He??s an analyst. It was frustrating. But if Salander was shot and buried. The alternative is a person who wants to take some sort of revenge and sabotage my life for personal reasons. a man infinitely better qualified.?? ??I??ll have a taxi waiting outside by the time you get down to the lobby. the woman G?ransson lived with. She looked on the verge of tears. As things stood.?? ??I no longer have access to the report. when. That held for a few minutes until the head of Budget pointed out that S.

Lundin and Nieminen of the Svavelsj? M. And she was exceptionally fit. I removed a bullet from her brain. ??This is a friendly invitation. ??It was an operational decision. He waited in the stairwell.L.O.?? ??What did you do??? ??Well.G. His leave of absence had begun on April 10.000 kronor for a week??s research on a story that was not now going to be published.?? Edklinth said. It made sense.?? ??Is there a story in that??? ??Wait.00 she had accomplished nothing and decided to go home. and in the end the price burden falls on the renters or the taxpayers. This included almost everything that had to do with Zalachenko??s background. ??And how did you know that this meeting was going to take place??? ??I have to protect my source.?? Figuerola said.

For fifteen years he was protected.?? ??Sit down. In her rear-view mirror she saw the man in the blue overalls turn into Br?nnkyrkagatan. He seemed to be thinking about something.?? Blomkvist said. but we don??t have time to go into them all today.?? Sp?ngberg said. You must not even mention that you??re doing research for Millennium. ??Pnkllrs.?? ??I??m curious about something. ??I think we??re done. Born in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. which he did in broken English. And it was inexpensive. and Blomkvist spent more than an hour sorting through its contents. the role of Dr Teleborian in the psychiatric clinic in 1991. ??It makes no difference to me who you appoint.?? ??Well. She was a computer expert. First of all.

is to investigate the truth of this story. as you can appreciate. Berger looked up and scanned the half-empty newsroom beyond the glass cage. ??Hello.B.?? Fransson wondered whether she could somehow arrange to hand the entire business over to Prosecutor Ekstr?m in Stockholm.?? ??You said there was no rush. And if problems crop up along the way. What I wanted to say was that you??ll probably have to give Holm some concessions.?? Jonasson laughed. did not have any teenagers on its staff. despite the fact that he poked at her and fussed over her fever chart. and you??ve been running around being unreachable for several weeks now. I want to know the whole layout of the corridor. as a twelve-year-old. ran the bath. Annoyed.?? Sandberg looked around the room. Blomkvist could find no such enquiry in Ekstr?m??s email.?? ??As I understand it.

After a five-hour operation.?? ??I??m curious about something. Jerker requisitioned it. but he can??t go against an administrative decision. but not so high as to present a real problem. angular face about a foot from hers.?? ??What Blomkvist doesn??t grasp is that if the truth about Zalachenko comes out. Berger was determined to retain her shareholding in Millennium and to remain on the board. she was going to have to get an accountant to help her.?? Sandberg looked around the room. Out of this somewhat esoteric bureaucratic debate. which should mean that Zalachenko??s room was two doors down from hers. is going to pick this up. She pulled open a drawer in the hall where she kept scarves.?? Zalachenko said. I had a late lunch and was going to make a pasta when I got home. ran a hand through his thick blond hair. ??Tell me. He explained in a low voice that.?? ??It sounds as if there are revolving doors into the place.

He jogged home to Bellmansgatan and up the stairs.?? She expected him to get up and say he would come back in a few days.?? the nurse said. somewhere along the way. He very seldom called in sick. of which the first concerns the skills he discovered in Hedestad. ??Guess where Vitavara Inc. Niedermann is linked to the site through the kidnapping of Salander??s friend Miriam Wu.?? Inspector Modig woke with a start when her mobile rang at the other end of the bedroom. We??re looking at the blueprints for all the relevant offices and apartments. Wadensj?? stared in disbelief when Gullberg returned at 2. ??The subject fascinates me. yes. She had electrodes taped to her body to record her pulse and breathing.R. ??We have to get busy on this. it??s starting to feel like this thing with S. if that would work. ??So what happens now??? Blomkvist said. but her tongue felt numb and paralysed.

turned his attention to the wounded man in the woodshed. you have to trust me.

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A man carrying a brown briefcase stepped carefully down from the 7. Most of all she wanted to take him to a hole in the ground in Gosseberga and bury him.?? ??I see. The dental surgery is about 150 metres from the spot where the patrol car was found.iv Zalachenko had been awake for eight hours when Inspectors Modig and Erlander came to his room at 7. her father. Have we alerted Malm???? ??Yes. I badly need a second opinion.D. and he began to make a list of headings on Armansky??s whiteboard. Giannini needed to have all the facts. assault. ??Plague.U. My job is to produce a good newspaper. the media regarded S?po as an excellent news source.com>. She reached for her mobile and called her brother. the G.M.

It was blocked. She was being stalked. She already knew that however she dealt with it.. ??How??s the headache??? ??I feel it now and then. He bought a pack of Lucky Strike and a tin of G?teborg??s Rap?? snuff.P.?? Magnusson nodded.I. ??You??re getting better too fast. his alias. I cannot help it if some idiot in the Security Police fantasizes in his reports. so far as they could tell. Finally. ??He??s at Sahlgrenska. On the other hand. but it was up to them to prove it. If she had a car parked down on Pryssgr?nd. ??Can you open your eyes??? Who was this bloody idiot harping on at her? Finally she did open her eyes. But Jonasson was head of the trauma unit.

including an AK5. M?rtensson carries a portable photocopier with him. in corridor 11C. Zalachenko would give his word. But he never regained consciousness and died after nine days in intensive care. or if you prefer. In the end she had to admit that the folder was gone.?? ??Activity of this kind is most definitely not sanctioned by the government. Anders Pehrzon. 2. 2. has. ??I made a copy for Curt but I never had a chance to give it to him before the Prosecutor General collected the others. V. Those were the words she had said to him when he moved to Hedeby. ??We have enough evidence to charge Lundin with participating in the kidnapping of Miriam Wu. The problem with Niedermann was that he had no friends. And at the same time. having met her before. And yet his liver.

He was on leave of absence from the Section for two years in the ??80s when he worked as intelligence attach??. Lisbeth Salander??s trial will be starting in a couple of weeks. The disk is very strong evidence. then we??ll decide what to do. ??Which pub are they in??? Blomkvist told her. Figuerola changed gear and turned up Vasagatan. Mikael Blomkvist. He was in G?teborg being his usual Blomkvist self.?? ??What do you mean??? ??It??s Lisbeth Salander. But you??re Lisbeth??s doctor and you have access to her.S. We don??t know his last name. They had expected the car to turn up in a matter of days. and we??ve had an A. You??re very sexy. I??m here to deliver it. Anita Kaspersson has been found. The missing patrol car was found in Alings?s early this morning. He asked her to please ?C on overtime ?C hurry over to the pub as back-up for Cortez. Bublanski had called to give them new instructions.

?? ??You don??t understand what you??re asking. They all shook hands. Holmberg was studying his fingernails.00. You might bear in mind that the beating that provoked Lisbeth??s attack put her mother in hospital for the rest of her life. ??Alright ?? go on. Checking the backgrounds of Swedish citizens was one thing. She changed the ring to silent and leaned back in her chair.?? Nystr?m said. She watched his face.?? ??So you??ve discovered Salander??s hideout??? Modig said. Then there??s Anders Holm. But when the discussion was over. Personally I don??t think S?po is behind this.?? ??What do you want??? ??What do you think??? Gullberg pulled up the chair and sat down. and that had to be prevented at all costs. ?C the major increase in personnel began. Same registration. Odd. ??My role is to expose shit like the Zalachenko club.

he took a zigzag route through the narrow streets of the old city until he reached the right address and knocked at the door of Black/White Publishing. A whole lot of stuff. but she had always known.I.S. But the work is often to do with people who have been threatened. so he waited for her to finish her call.?? Wadensj?? read the letters with rising astonishment. to bring some clarity to the fog in which Paulsson was apparently enveloped. The most worrying aspect of all this was that the command of the Security Police had changed so much that not even the overall chief of S. I mean Alexander Zalachenko.?? Blomkvist said nothing. Could you please ask her to come to my office in ten minutes??? In the meantime Berger composed her own email.?? ??Something along those lines.?? Nurse Agneta frowned. this isn??t about you and Micke. He would then take the used batteries home and recharge them overnight. but the preliminary investigation against Salander for the murder of your friends seems to have been shelved. leaned her crutches against the bookshelves. She would hardly notice the difference.

And then he had attempted suicide. Then he burst out laughing. he showed up and needed a place to hide. But isn??t it strange that they don??t appear anywhere in S?po??s organizational chart??? ??That??s ridiculous.?? ??What do you mean. out and we??ve alerted the police in Norway and Denmark. it was. It was a question only of how the case was presented. She requisitioned their passport photographs and identified at once the woman she had followed from Bellmansgatan as the Susanne Linder who lived in Nacka. That will take time. Worse still. Can you tell me your name??? ??Pshalandr. She has hit the nail on the head.?? Ekstr?m looked pleased.?? he said heartily.?? Jonasson nodded. where Plague had uploaded all the administrator rights for S. We think it??s an organization inside the organization. Jerker asked F?lldin not to put a name. what??s going to be in the paper tomorrow??? ??Well ???? ??Well.

The patient was still awake. but the principle is this: if we cut personnel. right next to the gate to the Maria lift. ??Bjurman subjected his ward to some sort of sexual assault ???? Blomkvist shrugged and said nothing. ??Forceps. Danielsson. She??s going to need someone with a completely different sort of clout and experience than I have. even less with his daughter. ??Turn the print over. Her eyes lit upon an air vent just below the ceiling. Dakota wrote. this is frustrating. Putting a mobile telephone into an air vent inside a locked cleaning supplies room. I have no idea what these particular grey cells are for. And so on. A stab wound to the lung or a crushing injury after a car crash were both particular and recognizable problems that could be dealt with. ??I spent the whole afternoon going over Henry??s documentation. That the budget was so low was a stroke of genius. to an apartment with the name Martinsson on the door. In the organization.

the previous day.?? ??What is it??? ??Out here.F. then it??s documented. albeit just for a couple of days. Niedermann is a murderer who has no grain of conscience. The news neither pleased Nieminen nor made him any calmer. when Gullberg was nineteen years old. Erika. Ekstr?m had brought a charge for grievous bodily harm in the case of Magge Lundin. She had been quite precise. He did not know whom he could trust.?? ??I agree with you there. the visit lasted precisely nine minutes. No response. chatted a while. deceased ?C a suicide. Believe me.I. Salander pressed her lips together and looked at the screen of her handheld.

?? He scrubbed her back and soaped her shoulders. not for a moment. They found G?ransson and his girlfriend in the basement. we might save ourselves a lot of time. And being a welder wasn??t so different from being a doctor. Berger thought for while before she replied. but just before the trial begins we might be able to publish a whole feature that examines the accuracy of all the statements that have been made about Salander.S. Reassigned to a secret post abroad in 2000. Then Blomkvist went out and had a light dinner at a restaurant near his hotel. The first time he was given a light prison sentence; the second time he got three years. the signature of the Prime Minister meant that he had sanctioned the need for a unit that would be responsible for ??internal personnel control??. I do have secrets. The legal desk does not even in practice exist ?? there we have a chief editor who borrows reporters from the news desk for each of his features. when S. He had worked part-time at the magazine for four years. He smoked a cigarette while he thought. He??s acting on orders from the government. Herr Zalachenko. with a golf bag slung over his shoulder.

This is a lot more fun than sitting around waiting for a kidney. if you add in your annual bonus. she could always widen the net again..?? ??It??s all hypothetical. staring at the chair Teleborian had been sitting in.?? ??Then who was the murderer??? a reporter from Dagens Eko shouted.?? ??Interesting. ??From a medical standpoint. there??s good reason for you to be worried. She would be forced to explain herself and to beg for forgiveness because she had defended herself.?? Nieminen was in a vile mood when he left the cells at S?dert?lje police station.. you alone are responsible for your investigation. I do not mean for this to continue on my watch. ??Because a ?? what did you call it ?? a crazy-doctor by the name of Peter Teleborian. He had no great hope that she would contact him. because no matter what measures he took it would almost inevitably result in a lifetime of suffering.?? Nieminen shut his eyes for ten full seconds. he could even turn Per Gunnar Vinge??s life inside out.

??One was Evert Gullberg ?? he was the top man.?? Jonasson laughed. Her heart was pounding hard when she started up the hand-held for the first time in two months and ventured on to the Internet. very angry. I??m clearing my desk tonight. Immediately it was easier to breathe. She was advised to contact her local station in the morning. they were surprised to see me there. ??The Security Police are pulling on my leash.P.?? ??I was shot in the head. The deceased lawyer Nils Bjurman had worked in the Immigration Division at the same time as the deceased Bj?rck. we were talking about him as if he were some sort of a hired killer. Jew-lover. and came to the conclusion that the girl was mentally ill. He enjoys indulging in intrigue and playing people against each other.M. the so-called Ronald Niedermann. Karl Axel Bodin would disappear into rehabilitative custody. as evening approached in the United States.

Two had a background in the Fraud Division. He was suddenly aware of Nurse Nicander saying something.?? ??Hmm.T. Lottie will follow Teleborian. In Personal Protection they believed that M?rtensson had been loaned out to Counter-Espionage. She could not stay away. ??Good evening.?? ??What is it??? ??Out here. She then saw that the woman with the camera had stopped filming and was heading past the Laurinska building in her direction. she did not want to go to hospital.?? ??Congrats. It was an almost shocking feeling when the hand-held suddenly showed that it had established a connection. He left the firm after ten years and opened his own practice. for God??s sake.?? Armansky told her. get in your car and meet me in S?dert?lje.?? ??I understand. She vouchsafed that it was not absolutely certain whether she had the right to question him.?? ??There must have been some other purpose ?? a secret organization within the organization.

She did not need anyone to tell her that.?? Gullberg said. Finally he called for a minute??s silence. two titanium screws had been fixed into his jawbone. which he took to be a good sign. He held it up to the light for a few seconds and saw that it appeared intact; then he dropped it into a bowl. Or did he? Blomkvist got up and went to the telephone. The Salander affair had cracked wide open. who normally wore a jacket and tie. It??s in direct line-of-sight of the reception desk and the nurses?? station.00. And it was now in Blomkvist??s keeping. She started by ordering passport photographs of Faulsson.??s personnel has been reduced by 118. ??Teleborian??? Jonasson could not help overhearing the name.?? she said. That??s all.P. Within the Firm the terms communist and traitor were synonymous. You??ve spoken to our notorious patient.

you have to understand that Salander is exceptionally resourceful. and looked into the empty landing where the lifts were.. A yes or no will be fine. He lives out in Sm?dalar?. He had kept his mouth shut through the entire series of police interrogations. She had cut back on bodybuilding. In a word. one of them the globally recognized International Joint Effort Against Child Labour in London. I was rather young ?? I didn??t know how I should deal with these people. immigrant. Bathroom on the left.?? ??Was she angry.?? Berger was at home. Security Police officers in senior positions had looked the other way when a series of savage assaults were committed against a Swedish woman. She had spent an hour infiltrating and charting the intranet at S.?? ??I notice that you have golf clubs planted here and there around the house. It doesn??t matter how hard Annika works for you.?? ??So what exactly is the purpose of your visit??? ??First. Much more blood had obviously been shed in and around the trench.

As well it might be.?? she said.M.?? Edklinth said. I cannot help you. She was not the one who had killed Svensson and Johansson. She discovered that they got along famously. and I are tending towards the belief that Blomkvist is correct in claiming that the first three murders were committed by Niedermann. The prosecutor??s office offered him legal assistance in the form of a public defence lawyer. and Zalachenko had avoided paying taxes on them. Then she shrugged.A.K. the night before. and we know for sure that he didn??t take any of the ferries. What should have happened is that you should have taken the information to Holm. and it??s urgent.?? ??Exactly.v ?C Sunday. Who??s going to talk next? What do we do if Bj?rck signs an affidavit confirming his story? And Clinton.

we have had an analysis group working almost round the clock to discover exactly what happened. and they had both ended up in bed with Torkel. If this were the United States a dozen or so senior S?po hands would have been arrested for obstruction of justice and forced to appear before a public committee in Congress.?? Blomkvist said again. that would have been against the law. Her neck had been broken when her head was turned 180 degrees.B. the article is nonsense. ??Mikael. very close to Sand?bron. especially when he had been drinking.S. but it could have been longer. Are you with me? All of this she had already worked out for herself.M. but it??s almost unusable. who did the actual eavesdropping.?? he said.?? ??Indeed??? ??But morally it??s the right thing to do. Normally I??m involved in civil cases in which I represent victims of rape or domestic violence.

?? ??Media??? Modig asked. Probably he would go to Tallinn.?? ??I see. You must not even mention that you??re doing research for Millennium. to leave. The Zalachenko folder. Then he inserted a thinner probe and located the bullet. The walls are sturdy and it would take quite a while to break down that door even if your assailant had tools at hand. Honestly. He says he absolutely won??t discuss a person who is not only innocent but who also has had her rights so severely violated.?? ??No indeed. Despite the fact that she kept urging her client to answer questions from the police. and he paid attention because those were the initials of Zalachenko??s holding company. even in budget memoranda. Ekstr?m had remarkably little on the record about Zalachenko. He had transferred the most crucial documentation to her desk. I explained that I wanted information in advance on all proposed articles.?? ??What ?? huh??? He sat up and looked around in bewilderment. What is it that you want from me??? Blomkvist spoke with a confidence that suggested that he had a source right at the heart of the affair and had followed every step Edklinth had taken.?? Blomkvist laughed.

of course not. Which will be in about an hour.?? Berger smiled.?? ??Nonetheless. The room was easier to guard. naturally curly hair. polite. She had filled five packing crates. Then there??s the investigation at Nykvarn ?? three cold-case killings.. If it happens again I??m going to relieve you of your job as news editor. They waited for almost an hour before Inspector Erlander arrived from Gosseberga with Blomkvist.37. They spent a few minutes making arrangements for the weekend. It seems completely beside the point. I see him sitting in the glass cage over there. puzzled.?? Berger slept until 2. But you didn??t see that??? ??No. or whether this would go on being the preserve of the Immigration Division.

then the chief of Secretariat must have approved the decision. As far as Millennium is concerned. Her eyes narrowed.?? ??I??ll tell you later. ??Thanks for the help with Niedermann. Zalachenko had at first been thought of as a potential breakthrough in the Palme mystery. so that we know exactly what our deadline is. Do you feel like coming over to Sahlgrenska to help out in a brain op. You took a break. modern. And if need be you can always come to me or Christer.?? ??So you don??t think it takes much to manipulate him??? ??Exactly. Bj?rck was a sailor. He pushed away the sheet of paper with the nine succinct points that Berger had presented at the weekly meeting of the budget committee. ??I was hired to make S. it??s like the old days. Ekstr?m straightened his glasses and stroked his well-groomed goatee. wasn??t established until four months later. Paulsson had then turned his attention to the wounded man in the woodshed. you have to trust me.

had to admit that the folder was gone. They think that the price of construction materials is absurd.

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14. and closed his computer. The criticism meant that the Section??s future was questioned. hoping to get rid of the daughter. She poured black coffee into a paper cup and ate a lettuce and cheese baguette. This is a unique situation and applies only to Salander. I presume that the report now exists in two places. What you??re proposing means that we??ll have to cut back on sports coverage. who for some strange reason was not online. even if he happens to be her boss. Then yesterday she had a setback.30 on Saturday afternoon when he heard the sound of rotating brushes from the low-humming floor polisher and saw that it was the dark-skinned immigrant who walked with a limp. Editor-in-Chief Morander died at lunchtime. He picked four colleagues.?? Annika Giannini.?? Blomkvist leaned forward and explained his plan. and in his opinion no government had been less prepared to meet the new political opportunities emerging in the East. Have you identified M?rtensson??s sidekick??? ??He??s unimportant. ??My role is to expose shit like the Zalachenko club.?? ??That??s O.

He stopped and looked about him. and Edklinth was Figuerola??s boss. Then he logged on to the media archive and picked out several of the articles on which Olsson??s report was based.00 and discovered Blomkvist still asleep. But we can arrange for that if you like. he had decided that Millennium Publishing would publish Svensson??s text about sex trafficking.?? ??It was just that sort of bureaucratic procedure I wanted to avoid. But she had not done that since she was fourteen.?? said Bublanski. his colleague Inspector Modig. She heard a movement and turned to see Salander just starting to clamber out of bed again. Even if somebody were following Teleborian for Blomkvist. But there was as yet no sign of it. Now it was just a matter of mapping out the moves. but since I had already filed a report. ??No.?? ??Aren??t there??? ??No. PART III DISK CRASH 27. ??I assume that this is bound to leak to the media. It??s a public document.

His job was to open the door. ??My role is to expose shit like the Zalachenko club. is Bjurman. Figuerola was out of luck. He was one of the new team. I don??t know how much was true. Suddenly Borgsj? smiled. And then locked it. You have a beach at the back of the house and a few large houses in the immediate vicinity.R. ??Since the early ??90s S.P.S. when there was less demand for this type of operation. was studying for a test in three weeks?? time. She requisitioned their passport photographs and identified at once the woman she had followed from Bellmansgatan as the Susanne Linder who lived in Nacka. I??m still learning this job. But she did not have the remotest wish to talk about her feelings or her actions. The national vehicle register had just informed him that the car he had seen at the top of Bellmansgatan with the blonde woman inside was owned by Monica Figuerola. A man whose name in the public register was Karl Axel Bodin but whose real name.

and showed Zalachenko his I. that is. Reassigned to a secret post abroad in 2000. as you are all aware. We can assume that another two police officers ??. ??He??s crossing Vasagatan. ??She??s mid-twenties. She needed to get away for a while. I can??t break the law. Teleborian had offered concrete. blood pressure is 100/70.?? ??Extraordinary.?? she said. That means that Milton Security is working with Blomkvist and has placed surveillance cameras in his apartment or in the stairwell. When she was admitted here.?? Modig said.G.?? ??Do you feel like having dinner later??? ??Bosnian again??? ??No. ??The Section?? was Francke??s idea. she would leave hospital with a scar on her scalp.

That??s all.?? ??It all sounds a bit ?? I don??t know. but it??s almost unusable. At 2.?? Bublanski cast a sceptical glance at the muscular woman on other side of the table. a relic from the Cold War. a bathtub retails at 5. I have a number of opinions about him too. Blomkvist and Giannini ?C until further notice. has developed its own text editing system. Who uses the address centraled@smpost. a freelance journalist in G?teborg. my assignment is to provide you with background as necessary. Orring turned it in at 3. which is pretty much a toy gun alongside the others.?? Erlander cleared his throat. I??ll arrange to hire one that you can trust.?? Berger looked at the clock and sighed.?? She seemed stressed. and swung her legs over the side of the bed.

when the trial starts. There was a period in which he spent every waking minute in front of his computer screen.?? ??She had an operation soon after she was brought in and was awake in the early evening. He glanced at Cortez and Karim. A bit ironic. and blood gushed from the wound. ??I am sorry for coming to see you without warning.S. I repeat. It did not bode well. Her constitutional rights are being violated by the very people who ought to be protecting her. She made a note of every name and every incident in the report that had to be verified. Cortez frowned and followed Berger with his gaze as she cut across the hall from her office to the kitchenette. Who did you hand everything over to??? ??How do you mean??? ??When F?lldin??s term came to an end. and the purpose of the trial is to get me committed to a secure psychiatric ward. She had done a risk assessment and pondered his plan. with a broad experience. He liked being a taxi driver except for two things. The bleeding had apparently subsided. Blomkvist had found him in the woodshed at the farm with a nasty-looking gash ?C probably from an axe ?C in his face and some shattering damage to one of his legs which he did not trouble to investigate.

Sorry not to have been in touch. 19.I. but somehow she managed to survive and dig herself out and???? ??And somehow got back to the farm and swung an axe into Zalachenko??s skull. or skinhead. In other words. He was better off not asking any questions. had acquiesced.?? ??Well. if that happened. She had never heard those footsteps before. ??Do you have anything against a Milton employee staying here? I could call and find out if my colleague Susanne Linder is free tonight. Eriksson had only called. If this were a regular police investigation of an ordinary crime. chief of Secretariat. but she did not sense the same condescension from him. Millennium was the kind of small office where co-workers were close. Then there were several lines of text where she identified the implements he had used during the rape. An article she had rejected in the afternoon would appear in the newspaper sometime after she had gone home. Let??s agree on what??s most important right now.

and I??ve found out the truth about what happened to her. Even if they provoke you or accuse you of whatever ?? Can you promise me??? ??I could manage that. And Edklinth is on a very thin ice if he does so. and the defective alarm from N. I work in the Violent Crimes Division here in G?teborg. installing alarm systems and managing burglary protection. Consequently Blomkvist had no clue whether Salander had revealed that her previous guardian had raped her. And who knows? Maybe he??ll catch Niedermann. Then she clocked out and went to the gym at St Eriksplan.?? ??And you??re perfectly sure about that? It??s not difficult to imagine things when you??re scared or excited. On Friday the Volvo was back. Berger thought for while before she replied. and nigger. Time and again he urged the man to cut his ties and disappear from their lives. But we can arrange for that if you like. But in my eyes you??re not worth a bonus of so much as one single ?re. but we don??t have time to go into them all today. This co-operative effort has to be based on mutual trust. then the chief of Secretariat must have approved the decision. or that Bj?rck was not alone at the time.

to shoot you too??? ??I have no way of knowing. ??Why the hell is it that the first thing Millennium does after I leave is to start running background checks on S.?? ??What??s that??? ??We are only there for clients who can pay.?? the assistant chief of the Violent Crimes Division concluded. No such address exists. Mikael. Despite the fact that she kept urging her client to answer questions from the police. It was 9. now that he??s dead. everything was quiet.F. Clinton??s career was hard to follow. which eventually became a law office at Odenplan. She felt as if she were the last person on earth. but I??ll probably be following him pretty soon. and G. possibly three. She could not help but smile. We have excellent documentation in Dag Svensson??s notes. You were the person nearest to him in the corridor.

it means that someone is acting against us. ??Such a shame. There??s one apartment that raises a question mark though. ??I was wondering when one of you was going to show up. half a mile from home in Saltsj?baden when her mobile rang. When Salander logged off. Kista.?? she added.?? Figuerola said.M. which was no surprise since S?po was deeply involved in what had happened. but we still don??t have a picture of him. and he??s an ace. ??Very good. Alexander. V. ??You spend a couple of hours a week at the gym. Illegal weapons are more serious. Which meant that they all had to carry two mobiles with them. ??Good.

??I assume that we??re going to tell him in a subtle way what he has to do to avoid an abrupt end to his career.?? ??In Stockholm we have a photograph of him that??s about twenty years old. ??No. I never used it. then.?? It took ten minutes for Giannini to give him her account. The Prime Minister gave him a sharp look.I.M. The text was short. Ekstr?m says he??s received evidence that the report is a fake ?C that there is no real report with that protocol number. Flodin looked similarly concerned. and a person in that role is under no obligation to report his activities to the government. She could not sit up even.?? ??It sounds far-fetched.?? One of the detectives from G?teborg said: ??What have we found at the farm in Gosseberga??? ??We found four revolvers. V.?? ??What do you want??? ??What do you think??? Gullberg pulled up the chair and sat down. Lunch consisted of black coffee and a meatball sandwich with beetroot salad. He was twenty-six years old and had been at Millennium for four years.

?? ??I see. I want you to lock yourself in your bedroom and let me handle the situation. ??I had a cranial X-ray done. well someone did. the same in every A. but it was not. uninvited. The paper has to be rejuvenated. He pressed his stethoscope against his wrist for a moment to warm it. Those were the words she had said to him when he moved to Hedeby.?? Berger put her hand over the mouthpiece. round man in his fifties with grey hair. is to investigate the truth of this story.?? ??I??m sorry.T. ??I don??t want to get into it. ??O. But now I have to be careful that the muscles don??t turn to fat. Pippi and the password is p9i2p7p7i.M.

But it??s a shame von Rottinger isn??t still with us.?? ??Why the hurry??? ??Because as soon as you come back I need you to make love to me. But this injury happened long after the time of death. her state of mind??? After a while Karlgren said: ??I??m not sure how I should answer that question.?? ??Correct. terribly sorry. Until now she had not confronted him in front of other colleagues in the newsroom. written at the time by your handler at S?po.?? ??But that??s all speculation ???? ??Where are the old personnel files kept??? ??Gullberg isn??t in them. The door was locked. 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. before Millennium was founded and when they worked in separate offices.?? ??I??d rather you didn??t. At last he looked up. He knew that G?ransson was the one who handled the money. She was thirty-six.30 in the morning. you listen here???? ??Imbecile. She disconnected and looked up at the ceiling. I was terribly intellectual.

have you? Lisbeth Salander is in fact innocent and the police have violated her and destroyed her reputation in ways that beggar belief.?? the P. You approved it and gave her the assignment at 11. ??My office. there??s good reason for you to be worried. dull headache and acute pain in her left shoulder. he had established his own headquarters at Salander??s apartment. The letters landed on his desk in the morning.M. on the idea of God in the ancient world. ??Child labour exists mostly in the textile and souvenir industries in Thailand.?? Erlander had no more questions. That??s why S.M.?? ??I consider her to be withdrawn. When he checked the clock he quickly closed his iBook.?? ??True. There aren??t many people who are as stubborn as Mikael about not being available when you need him. not 250 metres from the hotel room where he found himself today.?? said Berger.

55 and walked to Caf?? Madeleine. when that idiot from Trollh?ttan took charge of the situation. subdued conversation. The government collapsed again when the moderates jumped ship. And he could not resist going to intensive care to look in on the patient whose brain he had rootled around in early that morning. and the future of the Zalachenko unit ?C of the whole Section even ?C had hung by a thread.?? ??A . Suddenly Borgsj? smiled. May I come in??? Holmberg sat at the kitchen table while F?lldin poured them some coffee. in your opinion. & E. I would consider some form of autism. Why not? Maybe he??s going to change tactics. Most of all she wanted to take him to a hole in the ground in Gosseberga and bury him. Where is everybody??? Waltari told him where the other five members of Svavelsj? M. but he had a memory of having once seen him in the garage of the police building in casual clothes.R. since he??s still alive.?? ??Curt Andersson. ??Blomkvist.

Or rather ?? the differences that exist might be of a legal nature. She turned to the first page.K.000 kronor for a week??s research on a story that was not now going to be published.Q. She estimated that the width of her room was about five metres. let??s say ?C could publish selected excerpts from it. which he considered a pretty clever idea. On three occasions Zalachenko was arrested by the Swedish police for drunkenness and twice more in connection with fights in bars. ??The biggest industry in Sweden by far is construction.Q.A. H?kan Morander. A police officer attached to S?po also saw to it that Salander was locked up in a children??s psychiatric clinic. a matter which was still under investigation. But then she took him too. Then there??s Anders Holm. Monica pondered this turn of events for a few seconds. or maybe even Stockholm.?? ??No leads??? ??No.

?? Blomkvist referred to M?rtensson??s C. She emailed him a brief reply and thanked him for the upgrade. ??You got that right. He opened a new Word document.P. Edklinth??s palms were sweating when he put down the telephone. She shook her head. Finally he inserted narrow forceps with serrated jaws.K. Cortez frowned and followed Berger with his gaze as she cut across the hall from her office to the kitchenette. She clicked on it and read: First of all. He??s fearless and shows promise. and I have no intention of revealing its whereabouts. she??s on powerful painkillers. this was made out to be a conspiracy.30 p. His job was to decide what to do. is not an exact science.P. She simply called Milton Security and explained that she was looking for a female employee she had met a while ago and whose name she had forgotten.

I mean.?? ??In what way??? ??Faste appears to have become obsessed by one newspaper story about a lesbian Satanist gang. had never set foot in the office in London where he supposedly worked. A real breakthrough. The night nurses were at their station about twenty metres down on the other side of the corridor. Second. I assume you will ignore it.P. ??Oops. Now we have burglaries. is guilty of these crimes. The staff on Jonasson??s shift set about their appointed tasks. Within a few hours the Section had taken on tangible form. but I just didn??t have time???? ??We??ve been doing our own investigation at Milton.?? ??According to Blomkvist. I have to look presentable. The report was what finally put us on the right track. have you got anything new??? ??Nothing I haven??t already told you on the phone. He hovered between life and death for several weeks. a pervert and a rapist.

What do we know about them??? ??Prosecutor Ekstr?m. He honestly did not give a damn about the man. ??Are you alright??? Berger asked him. She could not see the blue overalls. they are anxious to arrest him as soon as possible. and they enjoyed working together on a number of assignments in subsequent years. Two are in Syria and my little sister is in Madrid. but he made these journeys less and less often. He came back with sushi and light beer and passed the food around the conference table. Do you understand??? ??Yes. Shit. where he was received by Birger Wadensj??.?? she said at last.vi Blomkvist spent twenty-five minutes on the tunnelbana changing lines and going in different directions.U.?? ??I know. Salander has been subjected to a number of infringements of her rights. Blomkvist printed out the 220 pages of the manuscript that were finished. He says that the resistance consisted of a forceful verbal attempt to prevent Torstensson and Ingemarsson from going to pick up Niedermann alone. Berger was aware that her objections were being systematically stonewalled by Flodin and Sellberg.

I consider this office of central importance to Swedish democracy. But you ought to know that you could easily kill an intruder with a golf club. It was this last which created potentially acute political problems. forty-two. was going to spy on the spies? In August 1964 Gullberg was summoned to an afternoon meeting with the assistant chief of the Security Police.?? ??Why did Helena ask you to visit her??? ??Salander is starting to recover.?? Salander felt an icy chill run down her spine. Niedermann is known to have a habit of burying people. He had stayed in Stockholm for another three years and worked almost daily at the Section. The legendary double agent Colonel Stig Wennerstr?m. In 2000 she applied to the Security Police in Uppsala. She had a taser.P. to an apartment with the name Martinsson on the door. Not at mine. They??re sitting in the Tre Remmare pub on Vasagatan by the stairs down to the Akalla line.?? Bublanski said.?? ??Which was the sensible thing to do. In the end she had to admit that the folder was gone. They think that the price of construction materials is absurd.

think you ought to see a doctor. Then he spoke in a lighter tone of voice. The car was still there. ??I think we??re done. as you all know.

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taking a folder from his briefcase. We have to concentrate on finding Niedermann and working on the graves in the woods at Nykvarn. Don??t misunderstand me. Something was eluding him. ??I assume that this is bound to leak to the media. he would stay in the intensive care unit for a few more days yet. He watched the flow of people on G?tgatan. and he??s dead. Magge gets shot and you??re busted. What??s happened to him since I retired??? ??Bj?rck is probably one of the very few internal colleagues who left the Section and went back to external operations. She might develop epilepsy. She wanted to know what charges she was intending to bring against Salander.?? ??Because we??re facing a conflict of loyalties too. The meeting at the Constitutional Protection Unit lasted until after 5. and then you??ll find yourself editing the family page or the comics page or something like that. The articles they turn out are terrible. But they had never worked together.?? ??And the answer is ????? ??We don??t know. Lisbeth. regular operations.

Blomkvist could find no such enquiry in Ekstr?m??s email. I??ve had a whole string of crazy emails accusing me of being all kinds of things ?C and suggesting various perverse things that ought to be done to me. She spectacularly kicked the shit out of two complete thugs from Svavelsj? M.?? There was a charged silence around the conference table before Erlander went on. and delinquent in his youth. Gullberg followed the story in a state of awful confusion. would you??? she said. I??m furious at the state and the government and S?po and all these fucking bastards who for no reason at all locked up a twelve-year-old girl in a mental hospital until she could be declared incompetent. a black leather jacket and running shoes. He simply concluded that Salander was suffering from stress. make her way to his farm. The question is. or die. He saw a dining-room table of dark wood that was cluttered with glasses. In the autopsy report. This isn??t the first time I??ve handled Top Secret information. Finally his uneasiness took the upper hand. And he??s right. semidetached house. but he stopped himself.

?? ??Ekstr?m says Bj?rck refused to discuss it. ??The problem is that the closest car we have at night is in Nacka centre. Are you going to disappear to work or do you want to come to my place and come to bed with me??? ??Well ???? ??You don??t have to feel pressured. I know that you??re not a psychiatrist. ??You??re here on a temporary basis. but there are strong indications that he did indeed attempt to kill her. Figuerola most definitely had no right to invite him here on her own authority.P. She had managed to free herself from the barn where the man had tied her up. have any influence in editorial matters. Are you and Erika Berger together??? ??Erika Berger??s married.30. He glanced at his watch. He has a three-year-old daughter.?? ??Very chivalrous. But not at 7. He crossed Sveav?gen on the viaduct at M?ster Samuelsgatan and went straight down to Klara Norra. Millennium did not have the resources to keep any employee on an open-ended budget with all sorts of expenses in the form of rental cars. there was a possibility that the Section would be subjected to official scrutiny. and present documentation that annihilates the prosecution??s game.

Teleborian was assistant head physician at St Stefan??s psychiatric clinic for children in Uppsala. That night Gullberg??s life underwent a radical change.?? Edklinth studied Malm??s photographs of a man getting into a car with a registration number that began with the letters KAB. He listened to the news and heard a summary of what had been said at the press conference. Dr Teleborian. He put on a jacket and walked to Milton Security??s offices at Slussen. How was Kaspersson found??? ??She turned up at a house on the outskirts of Seglora.?? ??I didn??t have much choice.K.C.?? Blomkvist looked around the room. she won??t be able to do the research she needs to do to prepare her defence. Good to know. But we have several suspects. the way you do when you haven??t seen someone for some time. but did not doubt the truth of it..?? ??Aha. But you have already been placed under arrest on a charge of grievous bodily harm. also keeping one for himself.

We live in a democracy and naturally we cannot influence what is written in the press. so he limped to the telephone booth at the grocer??s to call Landsort and book himself a room in the old ships?? pilot lookout. And there??s a connection to Niedermann there too.?? Inspector Bublanski listened to Prosecutor Ekstr?m without expression. Now he hated her with a fury that astonished him. testing his sense of balance. A third goes to salaries. Lisbeth Salander. Right now. 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.00 on Saturday evening when Armansky left his office and walked to the synagogue of the S?der congregation on St Paulsgatan.?? ??What kind of job??? ??Do you trust me. There had been no doubt in his mind that Salander was guilty of three murders. The nurses obviously had been instructed not to discuss other patients. He reached for his prosthesis stored in the cabinet next to his bed and attached it to the stump of his leg. when Bergling became the object of suspicion outside the Section as well.?? ??What about Gullberg. Extremely good at puzzles. Whoever did the falsification was extremely well informed. and Zalachenko could not predict how he would react under interrogation.

No-one can go into her room without permission except for doctors or nurses who work here at Sahlgrenska. Nieminen shut the door and walked slowly away from the barn. Accordingly she had the right to involve herself in the investigation of Zalachenko??s murder. Half were graphic artists and so on. She did not expect anyone to be her friend. If the situation had been reversed ?C if S. Both were dressed in jeans and leather jackets. who then provided him with a steady stream of assignments to keep him busy.?? ??I was never convicted of anything.?? she said cheerfully.?? ??Which means that if problems arise.?? ??I understand.?? ??That??s what he says. Next week I??ll be travelling.P. after all. Then she was allowed to go back to sleep. The sports desk has six and a half jobs at the moment.D. whose regulations simplified his visits to the Continent.

??I hear what you??re saying. On Monday he had begun his research by sending Cortez to the second-hand bookshops on S?dermalm. After some palaver over jurisdiction between Str?ngn?s and S?dert?lje. From now on we??ll meet in an office we??ve rented at Fridhemsplan. I??ll have a car in place in five minutes. Blomkvist closed his eyes. she was a psychopathic mass murderer.?? ??Could we stop going round in circles? Why do you think I arranged this meeting??? ??To find out what I know and what I intend to do with it.?? Ellis went on.?? ??O. I have a mountain of work before the trial begins. And thank God nobody yet knew that he was her brother. She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and pulled the electrodes off her arms and chest. Within reason. Either way she would have a fearful conflict of interest.?? he said. All they??ll have is the statement that I??m composing now. he would say that he personally had given Blomkvist clearance. He had a very deep gash across his face and another just below one kneecap. Then there was the incident in the tunnelbana.

??In other words. Zalachenko seemed to be grinning beneath his bandages. while the Security Police took care of the criminal investigation and paid the bill. In Sweden apparently they were untouchable. I can??t go up stairs without gasping for breath. Henry ?? I agree with Mikael that we should publish the story. ??Can I ask you what you think of Wadensj??. He carefully closed the door. At 1. and the Ministry of Justice. which Bj?rck and Teleborian drafted together.?? ??Which part was truth and which part was fantasy. Nieminen switched on an overhead light. nodded. I officially leave on the last day of April. He also gathered samples of blood-soaked clumps of dirt. And her breasts. Afterwards the discussion went on for almost three hours. and so on. and Mia Johansson.

to renew the contracts. As soon as he closed the door Figuerola was on her feet and back out on Kungsgatan.?? Nystr?m said. Besides ???? ??Besides what??? ??It??s nothing. Assistant Chief Fredrik Clinton. In his opinion. Four or five more of the same.?? ??Those were necessary cuts. the magazine is a threat because of one thing only: Bj?rck??s 1991 police report. But Svantesson hasn??t had much to do with her ???? ??I??ll arrange to be her primary care doctor while you??re on holiday.?? ??Good. ??You know what I would have done. But Lisbeth should be able to choose whether she wants to make use of them in her trial. A pistol would compensate for her physique. ??Today is all about May 1. we determined that the theft must have occurred during the time she was at Nacka hospital.000 kronor. He was Prime Minister at the time. Armansky had Blomkvist??s copy of Lidbom??s book An Assignment. He did not really need permission to publish the book in Svensson??s name.

?? ??Thanks. the seat of the County Criminal Police in Western G?taland. For them costcutting was what counted.I. even less with his daughter. I was told that we would have to wait until after the next election. Bublanski and the others who arrived at the summer house had treated it as a crime scene from the word go. and would have been passed over to the next administration. She was a little shaky now that the adrenaline had worn off. He??s actually in worse shape than you are. and we have extensive forensic evidence against her. And yet Bj?rck had never had anything to do with Counter-Espionage. You were in pretty bad shape. The pain in her left shoulder had subsided a bit.?? ??He isn??t a bad person. round man in his fifties with grey hair. She had not had access to ongoing editorial work at Millennium since early April.?? he said. I??m the one you hired to run the paper. She radiated a cheerful confidence.

I write whatever I want ?C and I also have an entire magazine at my disposal. ??Bellona Inc. When the trial begins.M.?? He smiled at her. Erlander knew from long experience that there were plenty of nutters out there. He had a very deep gash across his face and another just below one kneecap. ??I??m sorry. He checked carefully to see that he was not being followed and hurried to catch the Arlanda Express. S. When I got to him he was unconscious. this is how things really are.??s administration. In the long term there was another worry.10 this morning. He went down to the hotel??s breakfast room. Do we have a description of the third man??? ??Even better. plainly irritated. ??Have we got a plan??? ??We??re going to drive over and have a talk with Niedermann. At last they exchanged glances and then looked at Blomkvist.

82 of whom were women. He was reserving judgement until he knew what this was all about.?? She saw that Borgsj? had opened his mouth as if to say something himself. She put her hand on Salander??s chest and shoved her client down on to the bed.I.00.?? ??I??d like to take you home and undress you. Cortez. but she lacked experience and the gravitas of Berger. I can??t afford to keep him on as a dead weight all that time. Let me tell you the main points that I??m going to put in my statement. much of which was home-made stuff that Bob the Dog had set up. but we can make a few assumptions. Trinity had an antenna constructed by Bob the Dog which had an effective range of about five hundred metres. has received a number of emails that appear to come from me. She turned ice-cold and spent the next five minutes searching the bathroom and going through the stacks of papers and newspapers in the kitchen and bedroom. But I can??t swallow the scenario that says she was the one who was armed. Surely? Edklinth felt cold shivers of apprehension. There??s a new realpolitik in Europe since the Soviet Union collapsed. Otherwise.

?? ??How much would it take for you to come to S.?? the P. one of Ghidi??s uncles paid the equivalent of 50. ??Thanks. ??Pnkllrs. I just happened to be passing by. of course. Lisbeth.-savvy. It was agreed that Zalachenko would be handled by the Section for Special Analysis. so far as they could tell.?? Sellberg looked rather startled. and in the end the price burden falls on the renters or the taxpayers. It was Armansky who had set this in train by giving information to someone he trusted. He had at first worked in the field in the Personal Protection Unit.?? Sandberg said at last. worked primarily on incoming calls to Ekstr?m. knew about the Section for Special Analysis.M. I would consider some form of autism.

why are apartments so bloody expensive? Because the people commissioning the buildings don??t know how to set the price. to the local leader of the Ba??ath Party. But she did not have the remotest wish to talk about her feelings or her actions.?? They made their way to the police canteen to have breakfast. She concentrated on the present and opened her eyes again. ??Can you lift it by yourself??? She lifted her arm. Figuerola decided to leave her car behind and turned left in the direction of Slussen on Br?nnkyrkagatan.I.?? ??Anything else??? ??Sandberg lives in Sollentuna.?? ??Evert Gullberg. Perfect dramaturgy with a bad guy who swindles Swedish tenants through the system ?C which is legal ?C but who is so greedy and so bloody stupid that he outsources to this company in Vietnam. ??This is how things stand.I. This recurred at around 3. We do it out at the Naval School.M. But he??s tricky to deal with. Blomkvist gave him a succinct account. I never would have dreamed that???? ??Where??s the sister today? Camilla Salander. and when??? ??What would you have done if we??d uncovered this story two months ago??? Berger looked intently at her friend.

slept in her bed.10 he took the tram to Angered and got off in the centre of town. who took pity on him and vouchsafed that. He??s very experienced and doubtless one of the most competent news chiefs I??ve come across. ??You were reading a book about it on my staircase.?? ??And who are his superiors??? ??He won??t say. The woman??s face had been replaced with Berger??s. Naturally I don??t want the scandal to affect S. She was barefoot and suffering from severe hypothermia.M. I??m swamped too. I??m assuming you??ve already left for the day. political parties.B.?? ??How do you know it was his room??? ??Well. That left a period of c. the answer was not so simple. Is that a clear enough answer??? She shut her eyes to say yes.?? Blomkvist kissed his sister on the cheek and immediately asked: ??Are you going to be representing Lisbeth Salander??? ??I??m going to have to say no. and grievous bodily harm or attempted murder in the case of Karl Axel Bodin.

BuckRogers. surveillance of the farm.?? ??This conversation is over. Or else the falsification was done for a completely different purpose by someone inside the Security Police. getting up.00 on Tuesday night. She came back with four mugs and the coffee pot. She actually asked him how many copies there were in circulation. who in turn must decide whether charges should be brought. 2. which was mostly figuring out what was going on on the other side of the Baltic.?? Giannini said. so that Millennium??s office was always staffed and someone slept there every night. The cost of all that work would be almost 50. Remember the Wennerstr?m affair. He enjoys indulging in intrigue and playing people against each other.?? he confirmed.?? ??Blomkvist thinks there??s a faction within S?po. I??ll have to call Prosecutor Ekstr?m in Stockholm. Late as it was.

Whoever did the falsification was extremely well informed.30 a. ??O. He??s asleep and has turned off his mobile. She put her weight on her feet and stood up. which meant that he would be able to control the flow of information. but on the blueprints from the city construction office she knew that it was on the other side of the building. ??You suspect that there??s a conspiracy within the Security Police that is acting outside its constitutional mandate. at least three murders in Nykvarn. ??Can you explain what prompted her to do that??? ??You would have to ask my daughter. ??I??m cutting back on the training now. a government agency.35 when she heard the key in the lock and Nurse Agneta looked in on her.?? ??He was once one of the very best we had here in the Section. People greeted her as she limped past the central desk.?? he said. When he reached Slussplan he was badly out of breath.?? Armansky said. ??It??s about Vitavara Inc. as a result of which Wu was rescued from certain death.

but the editor. ??She was operated on during the night. Because Trinity could record the calls from Ekstr?m. staring in bewilderment at the Palm. They handle coverage about 320 days a year. ??Nothing??? Modig said. S?po??s ears are going to be burning. at her instruction.?? ??Could we stop going round in circles? Why do you think I arranged this meeting??? ??To find out what I know and what I intend to do with it. First. I was Dr L?derman??s assistant when he was in practice.B. All except for one thing.?? ??Alright.?? ??It sounds like a good way for me to get booted off the force. ??Idris lives in Angered. and he was more or less forced to resign at the age of fifty or fifty-five. A bastard defected Soviet Russian agent and professional gangster.?? Nystr?m said. must have been persuasive.

??Is there any way we can isolate them??? Wadensj?? lit another cigarillo. That was how he lit upon Zalachenko. She got the instant reply [PROVE IT ?C OR ELSE ??] as the animated Lara Croft unlocked the safety catch on her gun. He saw a dining-room table of dark wood that was cluttered with glasses. the government cannot do a thing. and in his opinion no government had been less prepared to meet the new political opportunities emerging in the East. You say that you never beat your girlfriend. By now resigned to his futility. as you know. I don??t have time to give special treatment to specific articles.000 kronor. He??s not married. ??The first thing I did when I started here was to tell you that I had a special interest in everything to do with Lisbeth Salander. He took his breakfast back to his room and read the paper. ??Within these four walls. He got out of the car and looked around. She had a fever that would not abate. ??The question is.?? ??What do you want??? Bublanski said.??s treasurer??? ??Viktor G?ransson ?C and his girlfriend.

and squeezed the trigger. But I advise that you wait for the report from forensics. what??s he doing here??? ??Clinton has decided to return to active duty. She kissed his cheek and waved as she left.?? ??Who gave him the instruction??? ??The chief of Secretariat??s assistant. Anything else of interest on the table??? ??Books. It??s all about patching up things. Paulsson finally asked how Niedermann had come to be in that ditch. During the police interviews. and he has backing from higher up in the bureaucracy. Slowly he turned to look. it??s Monica from S.M. It was just before 4. entry wound. I think you ought to see a doctor. Then he spoke in a lighter tone of voice. The car was still there. ??I think we??re done. as you all know.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

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?? Ethan said. Ethan had taken enough salt to work up a thirst for truth. And he??d been pants-wetting nervous. To redo the furniture in these quarters.In retrospect. Aelfric (pronounced elf-rick) was an Old English word meaning ??elf-ruled?? or ??ruled by elves.Anyway.Humor is your best and often only defense against the horror. Garlic wouldn??t repel the chef. a distant rumble like the marching feet of legions gone to war in some far. horseshoe curves. ??Manheim would have faded away in the black-and-white era. and motion foils the law. steadily receding beyond reach. A red gift bow.A series of steel plates formed the floor.

a shooting stance: Doing all that.[107] Fear knocked on his heart. drawing as little notice as might a ghost whose substance was but a twist of ectoplasmic mist. Fric. the depth of field made possible by modern cameras. and ethnic groups in equal contempt. For about forty minutes. headlamp blazing. ??That held the clothes he was wearing when he was admitted to the hospital. His agents call the nonacting income ??additional revenue streams..IN THE PALOMAR PARKING LOT. Several businesses in the mall and the lives of their employees might be disrupted.With needles of rain. sequined Styrofoam snowflakes hung on strings from the ceiling. Are you making progress on the Ermitrude Pottlesby murder? It would always be.

and avoid drinking strong spirits.Taking Hazard??s order. He would say. He??d watched it six times before. Festoons of plastic and shiny aluminum-foil icicles. spun funnels of rain. geese flew in formation across a somber sky.??The seeds of knowledge have been replaced by the eye. amber.The medical-lab division of Palomar analyzed blood samples. The case belonged to another detective. She had that temple-dragon look when she talked about it. stillness distilled. Does that make sense? What??s a wolf have to do to get famous?????Kill a lot of sheep.Reynerd plucked the remote control off the coffee table. mostly in care of his studio.

Crap. they would become the envy of the afflicted. Ghost Dad would come on the line.Two dozen roses found on a grave would not be admitted as evidence in a court of law. Without the ardor of a wind. But it doesn??t feel entirely right.Only the last names of the current tenants were printed on the mailboxes. without one weed or blade of blight. corruption had attained a degree of rot seldom seen outside a banana republic. and he answered the phone on the fourth ring.He imagined that he heard the faint tick and scrape of crow claws on an iron fence.Fric had never known anyone quite like him. theft. Ha. but a crank. drove him across the hallway.

??I have no desire to hurt you.But then this man. even sweet. Upon discovering the black gift box.The possibility existed that the psychotic chef was the very danger about which Mysterious Caller had been warning Fric. he wouldn??t have wagered a penny against the proposition that these were the very clothes.??Ethan paused to think. As it should be. however. WEARING THE SAME jeans and wool sweater as before. and a kitchen. smiled. the Formica surface of the dinette table appeared to be black.Telephones were located at both the exterior and the interior control stations. figured anigre. until they were scrubbed raw.

He had wondered if a mad criminal genius had hung the bodies of his human victims in this meat locker.????That??s not quite it. Reynerd must have a job.??The caller was Rolf Reynerd. Trains of every vintage raced through forests. he also detected another odor less clean than the first two.?? I like sex male.With school out. the rapid pulse visible in his right temple. descending grades.If she had been willing to share some of her money while still alive. they would assume you??d come after them next.That??s when he??d set the matter of the hooks aside for later contemplation and had come to the determination that the room had been a suffacatorium. they also gave me a weird look. he turned toward the bathroom entrance.Nervously.

Ethan??s Uncle Joe??who??d served as a surrogate dad when Ethan??s real father had been too drunk to handle the job??had been a truck driver for a regional bakery. he encountered two uniformed maids and a porter with whom he exchanged greetings. picked up a three-year-old Honda. He sat on the sofa. In their industrial division. this apple had been selected because it wasn??t ripe. Here was hair that foiled brushes and broke good combs. ??and Mr. Reynerd returned to the car. the rapid pulse visible in his right temple. He knew what that meant.One of those four lines served Mr.????Even you can??t eat a hundred thousand bucks?? worth of kibby. the guards unwrapped it. She wanted to flirt more with Hazard.Having collected hair by hair along the back of his head.

across unknowable vertical and horizontal distances.But then this man.??Figuratively.??Sorry to have bothered you.When steel sagged. The scene with the elephants! The airplane-to-airplane midair jump with no [126] parachute! The sinking ship! The alien snake king! The funny monkeys! Nurses would gush over him. how to find a new source for cocaine. the eyes would not be his. Nearly everyone knew that palazzo was Italian for ??palace.Few people knew. the film industry nevertheless flourished. nothing that Channing said or did would have left an impression. only leaves.????Truman derives from two Old English words. The farther their hopes and dreams receded from their grasp.Two puffs.

??When he had been a teenager and a young man.??It??s off. ensured that the contents would not be mistaken for garbage. he would have enthusiastically passed that disease to everyone he met by way of sneezes.????Just take a bagful of mamouls. agent. as had the emotional and the physical pain of living under the thumb of alcoholic fathers with fiery tempers. were all hackneyed. he would have suffered cardiac arrest and dropped dead into the train controls. featuring advanced night-vision technology. only recently released.Either Dunny had discovered a genie-stuffed lamp and had wished himself exquisite taste. he had photographed the black box before opening it. either. tongue and palate came apart as reluctantly as two strips of Velcro. take it again a half-hour later.

dusty ball bearings. and chocolate in every form from nonpareils to Hershey??s Kisses.Hazard had already been served a double order of the kibby appetizer with cucumbers.Moving closer to the bed. ??is to take a look at the guy up close and tell me what you think of him. the toilet visible.Some adults would have had to turn sideways to slip through one of these openings. Struggling to draw cool medicated air into his lungs. to the single control. applied with a Magna-Brush. ??For who???When the hand came out of the bag. including one that must have punched significant scraps of his heart muscle through an exit wound in his back. half full of used paper towels. those trunks didn??t shelter a lurking observer.This five-story Westwood condominium. like threads of seed pearls.

Then in a moment of clarity. over the years. if you insisted that life always proceed according to some this-because-that system of logic.In addition.?? a man said. one atheist priest hiding in cassock and alb and chasuble. He wrenched it away from the assailant. It took a lot of care. or bigger. all-seeing. on a state level and in too many local jurisdictions. before stepping out to meet the dreary day. in his bedroom.Not a good place to have a severe asthma attack. Hazard seldom accommodated himself to the world.Even with the water turned off.

He didn??t succeed. and urgently.Like the truncated pyramid on the back of the one-dollar bill.THE TREES. with arms out straight. the exercise with the poker proved cathartic. he would need something in which to pee.Receiving no response to his knock. Does that make sense? What??s a wolf have to do to get famous?????Kill a lot of sheep. But they would not be able to obtain a useful image of his face.As his wheezing quieted.Now he was desperate. or both??had not been cheated recently by Dunny.He had work to do.Badgeless.?? Ethan agreed.

trying to look equally bewildered and afraid. I guess.??You??ve hardly touched your salmon. as though he were a man on a brisk walk.Hunching his shoulders. the actor said.Reynerd proceeded into the kitchen.A little woozy. places like that.As if he??d sustained an electrical shock. ??It??s not so bad. he had a welcome-to-the-Bates-Motel edge to him that any fan of Anthony Perkins would have recognized.In a week. a reporter from Entertainment Weekly. to rose gardens. Ethan felt no pain.

Breath had become so hard to draw that a killer might as well have had both hands around Fric??s throat. Or even tired. though unexpected.??That??s because you??re not as smart as us morons. He looked up from a paperback novel that featured a grotesque corpse on the cover..Outside.A flock of pedestrians hurried past the restaurant windows. trying to look equally bewildered and afraid. A clockwork mechanism in his heart and soul. Birds were the subject of every photo. even his own son. That??s okay. He had hated it when he??d been six. departed the unreality of the train room for the unreality of the multimillion-dollar car collection in the garage. where he washed his hands vigorously at one of the sinks.

Two dozen roses found on a grave would not be admitted as evidence in a court of law. Eight were standard. when one of the maids changed the bedclothes??Mr. rides in theirs. and woo again.????So far it doesn??t mean much to me.A gorgeous excess of spangled and frosted holiday decorations further compromised the usefulness of the cameras. Clairvoyance. through the deceiving eye of the camera. the Reaper would track him down by smell and cancel the reprieve that had been granted to him. [36] twice. the tune was as mind-numbing as the original. through the deceiving eye of the camera.????Not in this hospital. as relaxed as might be a genuine demigod living with the sureness that life and youth were for him eternal. and Camera 03 captured a clear image of his face in the glow of the flanking gate lamps.