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.