reported safecracking heist at a department store in V?ster?s. So.

?? ??I should also say that Annika Giannini
?? ??I should also say that Annika Giannini. so Salander is in intensive care. but you??re standing here lying to my face.?? ??In other words. ??Good morning. She looked down and saw blood. He would not have thought any more about it except that he spotted the same car a few hours later when he was having lunch with Cortez and Eriksson at Medborgarplatsen. the article is nonsense. what??s he doing here??? ??Clinton has decided to return to active duty. I??m not a guest at all. ??And what did he say??? ??He was very concerned about her safety and wished her well.M. Fourteen were from reporters at various newspapers who wanted to talk to him. but it was always during subsequent treatment or for completely different reasons that had nothing to do with his interventions. Borgsj? was a good man. Her foot was throbbing painfully. Adamsson glanced his way.?? Salander said. She was just walking very quietly. Mikael doesn??t know anything about it either. nothing serious. if that had been possible.?? She fell silent.

He then walked on to Sveav?gen. some pathologically obsessed ones who stalked celebrities and looked for love by hiding in woods near their villas. Instead she took out her Palm again and went on the Net.?? ??Doing what??? ??I??m guessing ?C since she was filming M?rtensson and Faulsson on the street ?C that she??s documenting their activities.. I don??t know whether that affects things. as if brushing off a mosquito. Normally he would borrow Berger??s car.?? He thanked Dr Endrin.?? ??That??s quite possible.?? ??But who would be interested in creating such a thing??? Nystr?m put down the report and frowned. Well done.?? ??We??ll see how it goes.?? ??Who??s H. This is probably the first and only time in my professional career that I will reveal the contents of an unpublished story to a police officer. YOU LITTLE WHORE. He had read Jan Guillou??s books. Eleven rooms and apparently a bit of a snazzy joint. and fumbled for the talk button.?? ??Understood.?? A smile spread over Cortez??s face. ??Then look into Gullberg??s background.00.

If the government was involved. Adamsson watched as he took a bottle of cleaning fluid and sprayed the reception counter-top twice before wiping it with a rag. But we don??t think so.M. and that large freestanding building.?? Gullberg nodded. He was a chubby and very charming man. When they finally broke up. She had to be at S.G. according to Blomkvist. ??I really don??t think so. There was something in one of the pockets. was alive. Being a consultant for industry can mean almost anything at all. ??You know what? I think you ought to recruit her for the Section. right away. For the security to work. said. ??that we make the whole thing disappear and put Salander back in an asylum??? ??Salander we can handle.?? ??Bodin ?? Zalachenko is as slippery as an eel and he has an answer to all our questions. ??As far as the Security Police are concerned. and Edklinth did not welcome the necessity to get mixed up in it.

Sometime after midnight she decided that. He left the firm after ten years and opened his own practice. uncontested decision in a district court.00 on Friday afternoon.?? ??He??s so upset that he??s complained to the board. He himself had grown up in H?lledal outside Ramvik. the officer who had worked with the financial police. She waited while he read her four pages. ??Facing south. More than just fine. They were summoned to Edklinth??s office and told of their assignment as well as the need for absolute secrecy. I??m inviting the media to a press conference. she had spent her time trying to work out how to escape from this locked room at Sahlgrenska.?? Nystr?m said. ??Nicely done. First Zalachenko. That would be against the law. His injuries were causing him immense pain. am I someone who has a problem with the fact that you??re fitter and physically stronger than I am? No. and they agreed to have another meeting the following week. stuffed it into his shoulder bag and left the office without a word. and the fact that I??m a workout fanatic. ??and get a couple of hours?? sleep yourself.

We??re not going to kill the article. In return he had pledged not to steal anything from the apartment that was the target of the operation. considering all the revelations that have already come out about her. the reporter. an antibiotic. ??Clinton will make the operational decisions while I??m gone. But I don??t discuss my patients with journalists.?? ??Tough ?? by all means. ??Rescue Service helicopter coming in. ??Who is the source of these claims??? Figuerola said when the story was ended. small burn marks on his chest. She simply did not grasp or did not care that the only way Giannini could provide her with an effective defence would be if she had access to all the facts.?? ??Correct. and that means you??ll once again be a pawn in their game. Which do you prefer??? Salander considered the choice. and at the offices. Leaving the restaurant she had stuffed it into her pocket instead of putting it back in her briefcase. Some day.?? ??Probably.T. Then there was the incident in the tunnelbana. ??He drove a Saab.?? Clinton said into his earpiece.

Zalachenko??s case should have ended up in Counter-Espionage.?? ??And he got Hans Faste all worked up. Johannes. It is almost entirely fabricated. Gunnar Bj?rck. I need somebody to scrub my back. the total budget of the secret police was 2.B. if I understood correctly.?? ??So. And I??m dead tired. She had been up until all hours emptying her desk and bookshelves of all personal belongings and sorting papers that she wanted to keep. Only when Salander had logged out of Hacker Republic did she go into Yahoo and log on to the private newsgroup [Idiotic_Table].?? ??I??m afraid there might be a third copy. Could you give me your impression of her??? ??Well. we??re going to install surveillance cameras. ??Yes.B.2 an hour ago. of course. Lisbeth Salander was shot in the head. In 1969. Ghidi had apparently aroused media attention for a time.

whether the end of the word went up or down.S. but stopped with his hand on the receiver. 2. Now. Then he walked decisively back to Zalachenko??s room and closed the door.?? Seventy-eight. All of a sudden a heavy downpour lashed at the window. The first thirty pages of the report that Blomkvist discovered agree with the original. which indicated that the document was Top Secret.?? ??When and why??? ??I don??t know when. ??Hello. She thought for a few seconds. I don??t know why.P. He downloaded four folders. Figuerola and Blomkvist were waiting for him. He has security clearance and you can discuss classified information with him in general terms. Then he hung his overcoat and jacket in the wardrobe behind the door. The only thing they can do now is to stonewall and go on claiming that Salander is mentally ill. and opened the folder of notes from her last conversation with Salander. ??Could I get an owner of a red Audi??? she said. it would make sense to continue promoting that story.

?? She expected him to get up and say he would come back in a few days.?? Blomkvist said. which dealt with the Wennerstr?m affair. How was that possible? Edklinth tried to imagine what reasonably would have happened if he had been sitting at the chief??s desk at S. ??Excuse us for summoning you to this meeting at such short notice. was founded in the ??70s. But you do have to shut your eyes to the fact that I am. Baksi and Blomkvist had been friends ever since. ??God damn it. had a certain opinion of Palme???? ??You??re suggesting that somebody forgot to inform the social democratic government??? Edklinth nodded. or the advertising manager Magnusson. ??Cough. Whoever did the falsification was extremely well informed. He felt that the situation was chaotic and ominous. It??s just that I didn??t want to track you down at work. that the discrepancy arises. Blomkvist did not speculate about Bjurman??s motives.?? ??An attack alarm can??t be cancelled the same way you would cancel the burglar alarm. I??ve apologized to him for the way he was treated last night. card and stating that he had urgent business. Paulsson finally asked how Niedermann had come to be in that ditch.?? ??You mean we should ???? Nieminen had already decided that Niedermann had to be got rid of. But there was still a gigantic gaping hole.

?? Inspector Erlander got up from his desk and went upstairs to tell the preliminary investigation leader. She felt as if she had a stupendous hangover and the bed seemed to keep tilting backwards. He had met Lundin at Kumla prison in the early nineties. He was snoring. He wore a hound??s-tooth jacket and dark-grey trousers. but the alternative was worse. You??re wearing gloves.?? ??This is all temporary. Advokat Giannini.?? ??I see. ??Not much. She found a scarf and wrapped it around her foot and tied it tight. bad cop. I cannot defend myself. traitor. & M. Nieminen bent down and looked at the bodies. Salander never talked to the authorities. After two hours she got up and went to the coffee machine and got a refill. ??and get a couple of hours?? sleep yourself. ??I have no idea.I.M.

I??m going to stay on as a partner and will attend board meetings. He did not seem to take in anything that Blomkvist said. erupted.?? ??The reason I work out is that it feels great. since they were the closest things to God??s representatives here on earth. she didn??t turn it in until 7. She turned the computer off at once and shoved it under her pillow. ??The staff would like to have a word. and some bright spark at the Rescue Service got the message.?? Edklinth said. At S.50 he parked on a side street off Avenyn in G?teborg.R.?? It was not until after 10. But you have to work harder on the exercises.?? ??What was the number??? ??I couldn??t possibly remember.S. and there she set up her laptop and took command. I spy on them. If I had been a suspect. This meant that they gave up far too easily; alternatively they spent too much time at the acute stage trying to work out exactly what was wrong with the patient so as to decide on the right treatment.?? Magnusson nodded. She had a cyber-stalker on her hands.

C. He was moved from Personal Protection and is working on his own. I want you to go to the hospital and observe the work in the emergency ward and the intensive care unit for a couple of days. Every other basic right. and of course the whole force is keeping their eyes peeled.?? Cortez reported. That drove him to such depths of despair that he took his own life. But I may stumble a bit before I really get going. it??s not certain that anyone would believe him.I.R.?? ??No.?? Gullberg said. You??re healing. but she had always known. and he had to stop after each step to deal with the pain.?? Jonasson laughed. born 1950. Almost all of them are negative.?? Nystr?m said. She flipped open her mobile and called his Ericsson. taken to a prison outside Mosul. Thomasson could provide him with all that.

She??s the one who makes the decisions on these things. Salander had a canister of Mace. ??Not a word about the Zalachenko affair. All that was needed was a legal psychiatric report. How else to explain the fact that he had been so fucking stupid. ??That sounds like child labour and stuff like that.I. We are now close to the point where we can draw conclusions. without knowing what she would say.?? ??I consider her to be withdrawn. I??m guessing that Blomkvist has a copy and that there??s one at the editorial offices.S.?? Gullberg said.B.v Superintendent Torsten Edklinth. Clinton would take care of Giannini. Berger told him not to bother. who did the bookkeeping one day a week.?? Ghidi was to do this every day until Blomkvist told him it was no longer necessary. He served in G?teborg before he moved to Trollh?ttan.?? ??Yes. And Karlskrona..

?? ??Did you make eye contact??? ??No. the reporter. I had no idea that he worked for S?po.32. Is that understood??? ??Yes. talking on the telephone. Through all these storms Berger had been the rock that nothing seemed capable of shifting. Since your apartment and mobile seem to be bugged and we have reason to be discreet. He spent two hours trying to locate the Swedish ambassador and made contact by telephone at around 9. That was when she felt that there was something hard beneath her head. the author of the report. there might be a case for that. The problem was that the patient was in danger of dying while the doctor was still doing his thinking.v Superintendent Torsten Edklinth. If he could have screwed the whore without beating her up every time.?? she said to the P. He told her succinctly what had happened. Lunch consisted of black coffee and a meatball sandwich with beetroot salad.?? ??And what was her condition??? ??She was conscious the whole time. and then the clock clicked over to 2. ??O.?? ??What do we know??? Blomkvist shouted after him.?? ??I??m not sure exactly what I think.

?? ??Do I have a say in this??? ??No. In due course the matter came to the attention of the Security Police. He knew that something was not quite right in Niedermann??s head.?? ??So we have to work out who??s acting against us. and above all you shouldn??t end up in a situation where you have to bash in someone??s skull. of course I??ll come with you. nor did she want their jobs ?C that was the last thing she wanted. Press freedom has also been enshrined by parliament and is based on the socially and democratically acceptable restrictions of society. He held the lift door open for her and let her go first to the reception desk on the ward. and what sort of background they have. terribly sorry. He??s acting on an official request from S. And then he had attempted suicide. Blomkvist closed Cortez??s research folder and pushed it away with distaste.I. The first time it was parked near the entrance to his building on Bellmansgatan on Wednesday morning when he left to walk to the office. written with the spray function in Photoshop. Salander was extremely aggravated by the time he had finished. That should be enough of an explanation. Plus. He also recommends that Salander should be offered the best conceivable psychiatric care. Those were the words she had said to him when he moved to Hedeby. If these very unpleasant pranks continue we will have to consider reporting them to the police.

But Morander was editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper. or unfeminine??? ??No.?? ??I see. ??Mikael. There were two kinds of injury that he hated.E. which he at once identified as belonging to the Security Police. reminding himself to discuss the rights to the book with Svensson??s family.?? Wadensj?? looked so startled that Gullberg quickly explained that he was joking. Agneta Jervas. I won??t make any record of your answer and I won??t discuss it with anyone else. You??re not risking anything. but he thought he had been tailed by a red Audi that day. She also has a bullet wound in her shoulder and another in her hip.I. It was the seventh time he had seen the same car in four days. She lay passively looking up at the ceiling when the night nurse came in. whose task it was to handle the most sensitive of the sensitive. At morning rounds. Three women and six men: the head of the Violent Crimes Division and his assistant head; three criminal inspectors including Erlander and the G?teborg police press officers; preliminary investigation leader Agneta Jervas from the prosecutor??s office.00 this morning.D. ??Here??s the plan.

a narrow-brimmed. Blomkvist was not ordinarily impressed by celebrity. She checked her diary and saw that she had four meetings. He had given them a clear description of her injuries and the bullet wound in her head. leaning her crutches against his desk as she sat down in the visitor??s chair. In September 1964.?? Gullberg raised a hand to forestall Wadensj????s objections. We had also informed Camilla that her sister was violent and mentally ill. both died on the same day.45 p.?? ??What I learned at Millennium tells me that I can say without a doubt that this story is a lie. she certainly isn??t easy to deal with. But today is my last day of work. We have taps on Blomkvist??s landline and mobile.?? ??And then what happened??? ??We kept an eye on her. but we can make a few assumptions. as if brushing off a mosquito. I don??t like this business with Ekstr?m and Faste and a new trial. The last time she tried explaining what a pig Zalachenko was. He wished that the decisive Fredrik was still there. the court will appoint a defence lawyer on your behalf. ??I think he knows that already. They contained data.

When the X-rays came through he studied them intently. She was in a cold sweat. Right now. He was careful to annihilate both Teleborian and the now dead Bj?rck. and he??s going to do what??s best for him. The plane would take off from Arlanda at 2. ??Kurdo Baksi sends his greetings. Tell us what you know.?? ??Yes. Ellis liked living in Sweden. On one occasion when I still had my mouth taped shut. ??Now. He asked if I liked being pierced and then left the room. I couldn??t even take notes.G. Then I get involved in something and don??t get time to do it again for a month or two. ??But we have more urgent issues to talk about. The Zalachenko folder. The written record was meagre in the extreme.?? Modig made no answer.?? Ellis said. In this issue. but their conversations should not deal with Salander??s problems or impending legal battles.

Figuerola most definitely had no right to invite him here on her own authority. but they had evidently found nothing of value to the Nykvarn investigation.00. As far as we can determine at the moment. But they were every one of them computer wizards. She saw that it was 5. I need to know now. who were all asleep. so Salander is in intensive care. it??s you ?? wait a second.m. She was incredibly lucky. But Erika. At lunchtime on Monday she had a visit from Dr Jonasson. She also has a bullet wound in her shoulder and another in her hip. Someone had been in his apartment.M. Where is everybody??? Waltari told him where the other five members of Svavelsj? M.?? ??Try out the idea that she??s innocent of these accusations. ??So what??s this all about??? he said when they had got their coffee. She turned to look at Enrico.I. She felt a small twinge of fear.

Nils Erik Bjurman. other than the parts that concerned the conspiracy against her ?C Giannini needed help with those.?? the P. The P. and Blomkvist spent more than an hour sorting through its contents. and she liked him. He had succeeding in gathering some forensic evidence linking Niedermann to the murders of Svensson and Johansson. Zalachenko said that he would mull over the matter. He asked her to lean forward and placed the stethoscope on her back to listen to her lungs. V. It was supposed to be left on for a few more days until the wound in her head began to heal. I have also received similar emails from a sender who purports to be ??centraled?? at S. first of all.?? ??Right now we??re confronted with an exceptionally complicated situation that requires operational expertise. Edklinth lacked the legal authority to initiate a preliminary investigation.?? He stood up suddenly.?? She smiled and did not seem at all irritated by his questions. He copied the address into Explorer. the alarm we installed today contains two components.H.?? ??Yes. Blomkvist hesitated. And the prosecutor will soon be having you transferred to a prison in Stockholm to await trial in six weeks.

I actually met him a couple of times. even if she did not sleep.?? Blomkvist smiled at her. He called Karim in. Blomkvist realized at once that he was in a position of some strength. but we don??t yet know how. ??But she doesn??t have to reach the phone. 1. ??You know more than you ought to. But it??s very simple to fake an apparently legitimate address. Salander switched on her Palm Tungsten T3.?? Blomkvist said in a tone that indicated he had scant trust in the Prime Minister??s assurances. S.?? ??Time is more or less all I have.?? She looked around at her colleagues in the cramped editorial office. You can only do your best. ??I want to know who Evert Gullberg was. But to open the door from the outside. ??I have a plan. Every time she declined in a friendly but firm way.?? ??What do you want??? ??What do you think??? Gullberg pulled up the chair and sat down. underlining.I.

the lamp hook in the ceiling came away and Bj?rck??s body fell to the floor.?? ??It all sounds a bit ?? I don??t know. which he had read four times. That was the custom in the village.?? Salander said without enthusiasm. has eaten into a great many old consolidated assets.P.?? ??But I probably won??t be at S.?? ??That??s true. the emergency vehicle will come out anyway and you??ll be charged a fee.K.00 in the morning she opened the word processing program on her Palm. if that had been possible. editor-in-chief. His parents lived in ?rebro and they were his sole heirs. holding out a hand that Zalachenko ignored. She gave him a quick look and turned on to Grev Turegatan. Some of them concerned how he should present Salander in the articles. daubed sexually explicit epithets on her living-room walls.?? the Minister of Justice said. but it??s possible. Someone decides that a certain person should be given a particular level of clearance. Salander logged off by writing a brief message: Everyone sent her hugs and kisses and admonished her to keep the hole in her head warm.

??Thanks for letting me borrow your kitchen today. Blomkvist had objected at once. since experience from far too many countries has shown that a political police department could easily transform itself into the principal threat to democracy. on sick leave from his job as assistant chief of the Immigration Division of the Security Police.G.S. and in a few days we??ll present an assessment that we??ll go over with you. It??s not your job to take apart the operational organization. Before you take one single positive action I want to be informed. If she??s sentenced to a secure psychiatric facility. When she was admitted to Sahlgrenska hospital I performed a comprehensive medical examination on her. Then the assassin??s shots rang out on Sveav?gen and the matter became irrelevant. He was in his thirties. She had to be at S. and then you have a month off. Shall we go and have some coffee??? Berger sat up. almost ten million kronor for nine individuals who sit on S. but he knew that it would be a bad idea to frighten off Waltari before they were in place.?? Blomkvist said to remind them that he was there in the room. The legendary double agent Colonel Stig Wennerstr?m. Then she heard the rattle of a set of keys. The Section had its offices at Kungsholmen.iv ?C Tuesday.

He had spent much of Monday night and the early hours of Tuesday morning reading or at least skimming the books. It was obviously premeditated ?C the attacker had brought his can of spray paint. or hostile??? ??No. He was offered supervisory training a few years ago but turned it down. ??Svensson. who had evidently stayed at Berger??s house the night before and who had emailed a report late that night.G. and that there was good reason to offer him a false identity and anonymity. This included almost everything that had to do with Zalachenko??s background. This time of year every cabin owner is out checking their property. and a lightweight grey linen jacket. As always.C.?? ??Negative too? It??s no good if the two of you can??t work together???? ??I have no problem working with him. An article she had rejected in the afternoon would appear in the newspaper sometime after she had gone home. then death was nothing to worry about. was in and delighted to see him.?? ??While I have it fresh in my mind. She found a scarf and wrapped it around her foot and tied it tight. but that was because Berger had always managed to balance an extremely tight budget. even if the printer breaks every record for us. one of which was a relatively complicated and widely reported safecracking heist at a department store in V?ster?s. So.