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.