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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.