sex with Blomkvist. she was suffering from massive cyber-abstinence.

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Half were graphic artists and so on. He??ll understand. that??s not necessarily the same thing as saying that she??s my friend. My guarantee is this ?? if you don??t wave your magic wand and make all this disappear. ??Do you have any pain or discomfort in the shoulder??? She shook her head.?? Blomkvist said in a tone that indicated he had scant trust in the Prime Minister??s assurances. a feeling that had grown stronger with every visit he made since his retirement. ??That means that Zalachenko was murdered by the Section. ??He??s pulling out in front of you on Olof Palmes Gata ?? now. Quite apart from anything else. In 1987 Ghidi??s father was arrested on suspicion of being a Kurdish militant. He had slept through fifteen hours.K. ??I never thought I??d see you again. He answered on the run. She had her breakfast at the kitchen table. ??Police headquarters at 5.K. We??ll let it stand the way you??ve decided.?? she said.?? ??There is an alternative.C.

Then he said hello to Salander and asked her how she was feeling.?? ??Indeed??? ??I feel a great responsibility towards her still. Modig seemed to be weighing her words. He turned to Giannini.?? Jonasson frowned. G?tgatan was full of life at all hours of the day and night. Jonas and Teleborian had an unhealthy interest in seeing that Salander did not thrive.?? ??But if the story is true ?? if even a fraction of it is true. She was increasingly dependent on Fredriksson??s judgement in the light of her loss of confidence in Anders Holm. He was in his thirties. To include Bjurman in the special Section would be out of the question. stood on tiptoe and unscrewed the three screws in the round white cover of a vent in the wall of Salander??s room. The door was locked. it??s Monica from S. Gullberg squeezed the trigger and put the bullet right in the centre of Zalachenko??s forehead just as the patient was starting to swing his prosthesis over the edge of the bed.?? He thought for a second and then asked one more question.?? ??Yes. It had upset F?lldin that an important Soviet agent had sought asylum in Sweden. He nodded. Over the next forty-five minutes Jonasson picked out no fewer than thirty-two tiny bone chips from round the entry wound. The story was beginning at last to take shape. interview sofa to another.

He had also to resolve how to profile Salander in the article without violating her trust. just a rumour??? ??It??s no rumour that the police are looking into the possibility. Publication would be a serious blow to Borgsj?. ??We want to hear everything Janeryd tells you.?? ??And when would you like me to publish? After the next election. Jonasson sat for a while. Incoming calls were simpler because they were preceded by the fingerprint that would enable the telephone in question to receive the signal. the lunchtime memo. had succeeded in averting a suicide and managed to turn the spy in question into a double agent.G. Policemen possibly excepted. ??What would you like to know??? Bublanski said at last. Instead of exacerbating the issue. What an excellent tool the Internet was for freaks.?? ??Fredrik. A nice-looking man.?? ??Aren??t there??? ??No. Teleborian had done a strikingly good analysis. Sorry not to have been in touch. You can say hello to her and ask her whether she accepts me as her lawyer or not.?? ??I know. He instructed one of his men to get a tarpaulin to cover the trench and its immediate surroundings.

The Section was not a criminal enterprise.K. Then I??d just be in the way. taking it for granted that Bj?rck had been garrotted by someone. His parabolic antenna would be permanently listening out for a call containing Ekstr?m??s characteristic graph curve for one of a dozen commonly occurring words.?? She sat down. She stood for a long time breathing in the mild May air. If we can verify all the claims Blomkvist is making. and she ended the meeting by getting up and going back to her office without another word. thirty-five. good people. Hallberg is in charge of training. And yet through their assignments they were connected to ?? to what? The conspiracy was intimately linked to the late Alexander Zalachenko. ??What did you say??? he asked in a low voice. ??Hello. She sounded shocked. But you already live in a one-bedroom apartment by Danvikstull which your father bought for you twenty years ago. The second institution was the Security Police division for Constitutional Protection. and lance.?? ??Good Lord. She thought the most important thing was simply to stop the bastards. what??? ??Holm and the head of the legal section are on the warpath.

The discussion was about the slump in advertising and the downturn in single-copy sales.vi Blomkvist spent twenty-five minutes on the tunnelbana changing lines and going in different directions.m.?? ??But that??s nothing new. It was just before 4. In any case he had a penchant for civil disobedience on a private level. ??Clinton will make the operational decisions while I??m gone. and she felt no desire at all to engage with it. Everything she had written was true. And Skanska calculates it and comes back and says it??ll cost around 500 million kronor. ??May I help you??? ??Thank you. Instead she had an area cleared off the central desk in the heart of the newsroom. ??You certainly have a way with headlines. gathering up Blomkvist??s documentation. But first I??d like to examine you.?? he said and shook hands. that gave him a status that was beyond most people??s wildest dreams. It rang three times before Berger answered. had about 800. She checked the sender and then picked up the telephone and called Peter Fleming. He had reached the age when he had to use the toilet rather often. 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.

?? ??Lisbeth???? ??Wait. she had joined him at his table. It did not bode well. out on the car ever since. They were stopped by a red light. He did not exist in any register or in any public document. That??s all. He says that Salander won??t be in a condition to participate in an interview for several days yet. Herr Blomkvist. On Sunday she had a temperature of 102. so I??ll put her on. the woman turned 180 degrees and went down the steep hill towards Bellmansgatan 1.?? * Jonasson left Salander??s room somewhat confused. then Zalachenko. She has been badly treated and is under a lot of pressure. I never would have dreamed that???? ??Where??s the sister today? Camilla Salander. has been to see me twice in the past few days. When he was gone she stared at the ceiling. ??Get on to the Undersecretary of State and the head of the legal department. ??This morning S?po got calls from several newspapers who had received letters from Gullberg. No notes were taken at the meeting. I don??t dare to comment on the legal ramifications of such an action.

?? ??And the third name??? Edklinth said.?? ??The problem is that none of this could have happened if S?po weren??t involved somehow. Magnusson was getting on in years and as advertising manager had nothing to do with the editorial side. ??And this is a person that you say you can trust??? ??An individual of the highest moral standing. She started with Ernst Teodor Billing. ??O. The defection could only be known to a small group without risking that the information might leak back to the Russians and ?? How small a group? An operations department? An unknown operations department? If the affair had been appropriately handled.?? ??So you know nothing about it. In a well-ordered world he would be at home in Gosseberga now.?? Blomkvist headed for the bathroom.C. The older man got in. but was almost immediately hand-picked by Edklinth for the Constitutional Protection Unit. ??It??s good of you to take the time to come in. She downloaded a list of everyone who worked at S. She sat so that the light from the window fell on her back. he could move around his room. He was not surprised that she had called to wake him early that morning and put him and Lottie Karim to work. layout artists and others. I don??t dare get mixed up in anything like that. He had asked about her dragon tattoo. SisterJen wrote.

on the murderer. and that won??t be until August. On this law democracy stands or falls. But for the time being all this lay outside Zalachenko??s control.?? Fredriksson??s expression darkened.?? ??What sort of background does he have??? ??As far as I understand. She rasped out a single word: ??Giannini.?? ??And you reckon that he??s S?po. who did the bookkeeping one day a week. There really was a conspiracy inside S.?? ??But F?lldin is alive and willing to talk about the matter. He smoked a cigarette while he thought. but Zalachenko was guilty of repeated assault against his girlfriend. And somewhere the idea seems to have popped up that she might have been involved in selling steroids. Don??t misunderstand me ?? I??ll tell the truth as I see it in what I publish. Figuerola expected him to follow his quarry.?? Berger felt weariness settling over her. He happened to look into the living room and stopped short in surprise.?? Holmberg said. What??s going on??? ??He??s working in G?teborg. Eriksson and Blomkvist looked up from the typescript of the book about the Zalachenko case. If the pinkos want to avoid a war with Denmark.

and shortly after the murder he was told to get in touch with the G?teborg police. In the event. some ambitious scribbler would float the theory that the Section was behind the assassination of Palme. and closed the door.?? Berger thanked him. ??There are a few things we have to get straight. ??I need to ask some questions. ??Tell me. and by 6. She had just poured a second cup of coffee when there was a firm knock on the front door. I should think. As we know. because you guaranteed a dividend each year. but my boss.?? ??So you??re saying that Salander isn??t exactly what she seems to be.?? ??But don??t you understand what a scandal this could turn into? Are you just as barmy as Gullberg??? Clinton got to his feet laboriously. and examined her to check on her progress. but he had finally realized that there was so much material that not even an issue devoted entirely to the topic would be sufficient.. Blomkvist had blown 150. it was entirely possible that the emailer had been busy elsewhere too ?C that other people had got mail apparently from her that she did not know about. a lawyer colleague who was a member of the Women??s Network and an old friend from law school.

We have to be a single-level organization. ??Maybe they??re out. It was Blomkvist??s front door.?? After that ?str?m had designed the logo that was on Black/White??s masthead for fifteen years before Black/White magazine went to its grave and became the book publishing house Black/White. She did not have much time. He studied Gullberg.?? ??The reason I work out is that it feels great. which at that time was a name used for all of north Africa west of Egypt. The email had arrived a minute before. More than once Zalachenko had had to intervene when Niedermann began acting irrationally or lay curled up in terror.?? ??They want to take you over to the prison in G?teborg tonight. Zalachenko himself would have to spend the rest of his life in prison. The magazine suddenly felt foreign.?? ??What the fuck are you doing in Nyk?ping??? ??We decided to lay low when you and Magge were busted ?C until we knew the lay of the land. not vice versa??? ??Exactly. But she did not have the remotest wish to talk about her feelings or her actions. Then there??s Anders Holm.P.?? Modig made no answer. who had sent him the brisk advice: It would be best if you took the first train home.?? ??It??s a question of saving money we??re not going to have. He knows what he??s doing.

We have to find allies within the bureaucracy if this is not going to end in calamity. ??The defector had operated in other countries and knew nothing about Sweden. and in fact he??s already on his way.T.?? Jonasson pulled off his blood-stained nitrile gloves and dropped them in the bio-waste disposal bin. ??Thanks for talking to me. He thought simply that it might be a way to start a conversation. but she could not. The closest car will come from Adam Security in Fisks?tra.?? Inspector Erlander saw Giannini through the doorway to Salander??s room. I heard her lecture once. and then stood up.M. The police in S?dert?lje have found two graves in the place that??s owned by Svavelsj? Motorcycle Club. He had a gun in his hand. It was the reorganization of 1964 that had shaped Gullberg??s future career. ??I think he knows that already. And not a word in the daily memo about Svavelsj? M.?? ??And??? ??There are seven full-timers. purposely selecting younger talent who had experience on the regular police force and were only recently recruited to S. At first she just saw strange lights until a figure appeared in the centre of her field of vision.?? Gullberg said.

regularly. Then Falun waited on the landing as Sandberg went in. His voice was steady. I think you??re pretty tough too.B. She had short dark hair and was dressed in dark jeans and a black jacket. ??He did talk to the nurse and he left the flowers at the desk. dealer. That was good. by the way. I can tell you that he is a defector.?? the Minister of Justice said. and he wondered if a copy of Bj?rck??s report might be in her briefcase.. ??One flight up. Criminal Inspector Jan Bublanski of the Violent Crimes Division in Stockholm. ??Within these four walls.M. ??Now let me say my piece. The chief of S. and they might not be the same ones Erika would have made.?? ??I gather you??re still busy with excavations in Nykvarn.

as well as certain guarantees. but were asked instead to wait on the landings if they were meeting their partner. I should probably also mention that there are some individuals in the police force who are actually on Lisbeth??s side in all this. a white top. ??Your editor-in-chief??s untimely departure will create problems in the newsroom.* ??This print comes from ?hlens & ?kerlunds Publishers and was used in Se magazine in the spring of 1964. Detective Superintendent Otto Danielsson. The technology was not perfect. To Gullberg??s frustration. He warmly recommended that she be given the care she quite clearly needed. Please come to the point. You??ll have to speak to the P. He had met Chief of Secretariat Albert Shenke at meetings and internal conferences on countless occasions.?? ??I don??t like this. ??This is a great sleazy story. Maybe he??ll talk.?? ??So I start by getting the person who recruited me fired. but the surplus in the budget was primarily made up of the profits from Blomkvist??s book about the Wennerstr?m affair.?? Nystr?m said. ??What is it??? the P. and Blomkvist had never hesitated if Baksi asked him a favour.?? ??I??ll be going on holiday for three weeks.

and the rest of them were somehow excluded. This means that you have confirmed the existence of what I call the Zalachenko club. Armansky had begun to tell him the story of Lisbeth Salander. In 1996 he became assistant chief of the Immigration Division and ended up in a stressful position.v Superintendent Torsten Edklinth. he was unwilling to name his source. ??Bubble and I have known each other for many years. and I can??t say no. he appreciated flattery. And as you know. ??Thanks. Georg.P. In the United States you can cross-examine members of the government in a normal court of law. I don??t like this business with Ekstr?m and Faste and a new trial.?? ??And what if I make a wrong decision??? ??If I see or hear anything out of the ordinary. But he was still alive. ??She owns 30 per cent of Millennium and sits on our board. Gullberg did not have a clear sense of what Wadensj?? was made of. Salander got up from the edge of the bed and went to the window. but I have to insist that you answer the question. if I understood correctly ?C is to clean corridor 11C.

She was carrying a black briefcase.00 in the evening.S. She was carrying a black briefcase. He??s been an investigator at Justice and has handled a number of cases that got a fair bit of attention.I. Jonasson seemed distracted and bent over to arrange her pillow. I take it??? ??That??s right. 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. who was also a temp.?? If Zalachenko could have laughed he would have. we??re still two people short in editorial.?? ??Listen. ??Listen. Certainly.F.?? said Bublanski.?? ??Who gave him the instruction??? ??The chief of Secretariat??s assistant.com company that had the nerve to take the citizen to court. are you going to come quietly or do I have to handcuff you??? The consultant from Milton Security was waiting for Berger when she got home at around 7. and he had to pay the bill. and there??s no-one who can tell us who his clients were.

That??s what he put in the report. That was all she could manage. and that he had to deal with the kids in the morning.?? Blomkvist said. Berger was editor-in-chief and therefore one of the few people who could demand that information from him. Instead she took out her Palm again and went on the Net. I haven??t told anybody. he had a rough draft of two articles totalling twenty-one pages.?? ??Unless she was armed. Trinity did not even consider trying to bug Ekstr?m??s work telephone at police H. You make the decisions. For a moment he stood indecisively outside the door. He felt inadequate but all of a sudden realized that he might be luckier than he deserved. Maybe it was a planned operation that was shelved.?? ??Alright. What worried him in the short term was that he could never predict when Niedermann might be struck by his mental paralysis. But this trial is going to be about entirely different things. Last night she had a temperature of 38 and vomited on two occasions. ??I can take care of Ekstr?m. We have an agreement with a local security company. So. The technique was not uncommon.

when the district court released her back into society.?? ??Unhappily. but his mind was working on a completely different level as he reconstructed the key points. M?rtensson??s apartment was on the top floor of a three-storey building in the suburbs. He felt inadequate but all of a sudden realized that he might be luckier than he deserved. Finally he called for a minute??s silence. fifty-five. They chatted for a while.?? Berger nodded and turned on a light. ??The chief of Secretariat and the chief of Budget belong to us. then he??d do it. but from even the little I managed to know of him.?? Armansky said. training sessions. but he restrained himself. a van pulled out and left a parking space on Bellmansgatan at the corner with Tavastgatan. to be honest.D. She gave him twenty minutes to deal with his post. Ronald Niedermann. Salander smiled. talk to the press??? Wadensj?? said.

He must have driven up the 180 through Bor?s and swung south. wondering whether to leave the office.G. Then we??ll have to sign a contract.?? ??If anything happens. Blomkvist got out his anonymous mobile and called Daniel Olsson. ??Hello. But he??s greedy. ?C the major increase in personnel began.?? ??Do you? Good. Then Modig leaned forward and said in a low voice. the author of the report. where place settings were already laid out. I understand Mikael??s plan. Mikael. but they had neither the resources nor the expertise to run this sort of operational activity.?? ??That??s me. and carry a heavier load than usual. An A. Paolo Roberto and his pals. In the cell at S?dert?lje police station he had played the scene over and over in his head: how he and Lundin had arrived at Advokat Bjurman??s summer house and found Salander apparently just leaving. Have you identified M?rtensson??s sidekick??? ??He??s unimportant.

One was manageable. She needed a weapon. ??There??s going to be a scandal of enormous proportions. but she quickly regained her composure. She had worked an average of five hours each day.?? ??I??m on the way in.?? ??If Salander hit her father in the head with an axe she isn??t exactly innocent. I??m not going to quote you or mention you even in anything I write. And then you dropped that bombshell about Borgsj?. and since he did not see any blood in the woman??s mouth he concluded that probably it had not. She saw him in the wing mirror on the passenger side as he went on down towards Hornsgatan. That was all she could manage. Berger jumped as though someone had fired a shot in her living room. Blomkvist??s magazine was intending to expose him.?? Just before noon there was a knock on the door and a uniformed officer delivered a document to Sp?ngberg.S. She was still thinking when she heard footsteps in the corridor. Modig raised her voice. He had bought bread. So let??s move on. I said asap.?? Figuerola said.

??I don??t know.?? ??That??s rubbish. I have not killed any policeman.?? ??It??s the least I could do. said.00 Edklinth arrived. We??ve been wondering what that was about. or Malm?. He told Paulsson he was an incompetent fool and yelled at him that Torstensson and Ingemarsson should fucking forget about untying Niedermann until they had called for back-up. Edklinth walked into police headquarters at 7.5 who in good Philby style was working for the Russians. so he pushed the sushi aside. which just happened to mean something to him. but what is new is that the construction industry is a couple of light-years ahead of all other Swedish industries when it comes to competition and efficiency. she had joined him at his table. He did his military service first as an officer cadet and was then accepted for officer training. ??Which pub are they in??? Blomkvist told her. ??Come in ?? Evert Gullberg.?? ??This is one hell of an investigation. Figuerola had begun to think that maybe she ought to start looking for a steady partner and a more permanent living arrangement. ??This is. It took him several minutes.

Then we??ll need to hire a new employee. It made sense. Then he smiled. The arrest of Lisbeth Salander was front-page news. Advokat Giannini. ??But remember that it??s been an extreme situation. Torsten Edklinth. At 2. Johanna Karolina Oskarsson.?? she added. I don??t have time to give special treatment to specific articles. she lost interest.P. but for security reasons almost the whole team was moved out of police headquarters to an eleven-room apartment in ?stermalm that had been discreetly remodelled into a fortified office. some squiggles on a piece of paper. and thereby indirectly the entire police investigation.P. Erlander shook his head. Her uneasiness grew.?? ??Oh. M?rtensson reports that Blomkvist is still at the office. which was understandable enough from the point of view of a budget chief and a C.

??And who the hell is Evert Gullberg??? ??Retired. ??Thanks.?? He muttered to himself as he turned down the corridor to his office.?? ??Which of course you are not. An agent already connected to the most secret of the secret.V. Let??s meet tonight at 9. Armansky had begun to tell him the story of Lisbeth Salander. He needed cash. ??On your way home??? ??You too. Figuerola had given him a number of indisputable indications that something was rotten within S. She started by ordering passport photographs of Faulsson.?? ??You never considered the fact that there might be something wrong with the arrangement??? ??No. I just need to know if he has a meeting with anybody right now. But he had no evidence. But Salander was gone from her I. but we??re going to have to act fast so that we don??t squander the opportunity. but he walked briskly from the Academic bookshop to the side entrance of N.?? ??Even then Teleborian was a well-respected child psychiatrist who had also worked in forensic medicine. She put her cursor on the spire of the church tower and clicked. And sex with Blomkvist. she was suffering from massive cyber-abstinence.