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The evening papers and a morning paper had reported a person being badly injured in a car fire on Lundagatan on the date in question in 1991
The evening papers and a morning paper had reported a person being badly injured in a car fire on Lundagatan on the date in question in 1991. Bublanski had called to give them new instructions.?? Berger studied the chairman of the board.?? Blomkvist??s whole world suddenly felt off balance. So we are asking for your help. past the parliament building. Above all we have to get those copies of the report. Quite apart from her injuries. ??Lisbeth Salander. I??ll know exactly what you talked about less than an hour after I get to my office in Stockholm.?? Berger sighed. of course. and I won??t discuss my patient. Hire some people. which he took to be a good sign. She had a headache again. when he needed to restructure certain funds connected to a small financial firm that he owned in Liechtenstein. Gullberg did not have a clear sense of what Wadensj?? was made of. she now has a lawyer named Annika Giannini.P.?? ??What I mean is that you should go on with your life and not feel as though you need to entertain me. The business section has one. and that did not have anything at all to do with the operations of Counter-Espionage.

?? Blomkvist said.?? ??But those journals contain mostly scholarly papers and pure research. She tried 52553. You can??t call and say that it was a mistake.?? ??It would help if you??d tell me what??s going on. and we don??t want to attract attention until we have more to go on. This was enough for Figuerola??s team to initiate the preliminary investigation and to set about enquiring whether the robbers had a connection to the neo-Nazi gang in V?rmland. He could be clean out of the country. ??Hello.00. Lisbeth.?? ??I know. It rang three times before Berger answered. Bublanski was working only on Niedermann. His sister had almost?? ??How is she??? he said. 1976 had been a problematic year for the Section. and Jerker has known Prime Minister F?lldin since he was a child.S.32. She sat bent over spreadsheets of Millennium??s budget and was so engrossed that Anton. and a dark five-o??clock shadow.?? ??That??s nice to hear. she lost interest.

Blomkvist waved from a corner table. A fanatic. True.?? ??Are any of them politically active??? ??No. we have to work faster. Was I wrong??? one of the G?teborg policemen said. ??Perhaps we haven??t found the car because Niedermann drove out of the country to the north via Haparanda? A big detour around the Gulf of Bothnia.P. it??s a reasonable speculation.P. As he talked to Berger. In May 1998 he moved to G?teborg after a distant relative took pity on him and offered him a steady job at an office-cleaning firm. but there did not seem to be any single institution. but in the light of all the facts we??re setting out. and a number of individuals were acting outside of. One result of this increased workload was that Eriksson had had to contract several freelancers to produce articles for future issues. took a double room. down the street from the pub. I??ll be back in Stockholm tomorrow if nothing else comes up.?? he said and hung up. was the first indication that Zalachenko??s predicament had come to the attention of the Section.?? the Minister of Justice said. But the officers were warned not to tire him.

. and I told you that he would be hired to do the same thing again now. He interrupted a discussion she was having with her editors about what angle to give an article on international terrorism. You can say hello to her and ask her whether she accepts me as her lawyer or not.?? ??Please explain. As soon as he changed the subject. and as you no doubt realize. As soon as he closed the door Figuerola was on her feet and back out on Kungsgatan. Touch??. then G?ransson??s car would have been parked at one of the ports.?? As she waved him out of the glass cage she saw Holm watching her from the other side of the news desk.M. 1966). He took the stairs down to the ground floor. on the horns of a constitutional dilemma: he did not have the authority to conduct secret investigations.M. and that you don??t even have the resources to have it done.?? ??So we have to ask ourselves.C. but that was exactly why you hired me. Within the Firm the terms communist and traitor were synonymous. The immediate reason for calling the press conference was that he wanted to deny the rumours already being circulated in the media. and Giannini??s was stolen when she was mugged.

But today is my last day of work.?? Berger could not bring herself to sit at Morander??s desk right away. As far as a scandal goes ?? A retired tax lawyer wrote paranoid letters to newspapers.?? Jonasson looked again at the unconscious patient??s face.?? ??I??ll get back to you.??s now not-so-secret mistress and pictures from a party in Hollywood in which he could be seen snorting cocaine.?? ??So I heard. When the next two shots came she tried to get her legs over the edge of the bed. Three of them were called [PrelimInv/Salander]. I??ve never seen him before.I. V. She turned and braked outside the S.M. Fourteen were from reporters at various newspapers who wanted to talk to him. But it was now forty-eight hours since Niedermann had fled.K.?? ??I??m sorry. There was no time to act. ??It was an operational decision. ??Do we have the name of the assailant??? Eriksson shook her head as the telephone rang again.?? ??Alright. Or possibly both of you.

In Sweden apparently they were untouchable. He??s a prick who plays people off against each other. but she was more or less healed. dealer. but situations do crop up. which was understood to be essential to the nation??s security. Teleborian got up abruptly and took his leave. It??s possible that when this conversation is over.?? ??Good enough. It??s like this. Every time his right foot touched the floor. But if he can??t handle the fact that you screwed up one time in twenty years. WHORE She raised her index finger to delete the message. which consisted solely of numbers. itself be implemented? The Wennerstr?m debacle had given rise to an avalanche of dilemmas within the Security Police. fifteen years before when he had burned like a torch in his car. But now he had a great need for her skills in that field.?? Blomkvist said. Sandberg offered a considerably stronger lifeline. We??ve got them covered. who??s leading the investigation into Zalachenko??s murder. For the second time in less than a week Jonasson performed emergency surgery. It could be if someone is trying to break in or turns up in the garden or something like that.

When they were alone she had asked her why she so provocatively refused to talk to the police. And so on. And we??re on a different floor from the rest of S?po. Her father. Inspector Bublanski. The fact that the Director of Constitutional Protection had gone to the trouble of bringing him in said that somebody was nervous. given the circumstances. and I think I know how I??m going to do it. Vinge (Wahlstr?m & Widstrand. You met him down in G?teborg.K. It ended in a violent argument and a spectacular fight between the sisters.?? ??You require things of me??? ??Yes. The head of Secretariat sat on the news for several days before he explained to Gullberg that the defection was so big that the chief of S. The police had carried out a search.?? Jonasson said when the call was finally answered.00. of course. He alone controlled Zalachenko. I don??t suppose you have any chance of hearing what they??re saying. It has been 56 days since your last visit.?? ??Thirty-one employees. But Counter-Espionage had not ever had him.

She had been at Constitutional Protection for less than three years. The secret was known also to a thirteenth person. Idris Ghidi landed at Arlanda airport in Sweden on 19 October.?? ??Exactly. She was on the telephone and writing furiously on a yellow Post-it.?? ??I hear you.?? Beckman was completely O.?? ??I couldn??t stand sitting at home one more day. They were included as a sign of goodwill and to demonstrate that G?teborg wished to co-operate with their colleagues from the capital. I??m Annika Giannini.C. Figuerola walked back to Bellmansgatan. Just then Karim called and told them that Teleborian had gone up on to Klarabergsgatan via the escalators in Central Station and from there to police headquarters on Kungsholmen. ??I??m so linked to Millennium that no-one will believe I didn??t have a finger in this. Robbery. when.S. For three years after his nineteenth birthday he had worked as an engineer for British Telecom. She had failed.00 and gathered the employees for a brief memorial to Morander. public reports.?? ??If I have the energy. We have no witnesses to the murders.

?? ??Some girl. I got in at the same time he did. Cortez had the weekend shift and Blomkvist found him again in the office in the evening.?? ??Unhappily. If I were to make the decisions they would be different again.?? ??I want to know what you and Blomkvist are up to. Figuerola sat motionless for thirty seconds. But it is unusual. I don??t have to use their technical terms.?? ??Then who was the murderer??? a reporter from Dagens Eko shouted. editor-in-chief. You say that you never beat your girlfriend. ??O. 7. but probably that was not the point. And Inspector Erlander in G?teborg has been focusing his search in that direction from day one. The girl on the gurney could live with a piece of lead in her hip and a piece of lead in her shoulder.?? ??I promise. I feel stressed out and unhappy. The day that Zalachenko was shot there was a robbery at my apartment. But when I examined her this morning her temperature had gone up to almost 39. Monica. M?rtensson had not been reassigned to Counter-Espionage.

The best thing would be if he was found with a bullet in his head. What do you think the odds are that the investigation will be transferred to S?po??? Modig shook her head. Blomkvist has made a connection to the murder several months ago of a prostitute in S?dert?lje. She had wiped her hard drive clean before she left for Gosseberga and the confrontation with Zalachenko.D.?? She studied the group thoughtfully. The Prime Minister certainly looked uneasy now. She had several messages. Many of them were sadistic. ??His name is Evert Gullberg and he??s seventy-eight years old. At a time when the newspaper was on the edge and a campaign of rejuvenation was under way. He had worked at Sahlgrenska and Eastern hospitals for twenty years. Palme continued to baffle them. you would most probably be charged with manslaughter.?? ??I couldn??t help reading in the papers that you??re mixed up in this Salander story. This Amazon reign was a gynaecocracy. It was always a shock to meet him in person. practically around the clock from 1976 on. the houses are positioned with their gables facing each other. He did not ask any questions about Niedermann or Zalachenko. Since the events in Gosseberga his colleague had certainly become withdrawn and hard to communicate with. so that the situation doesn??t get completely out of our control.?? ??Genetics??? ??Yes.

which was available in the Republic??s archive for its citizens. ??It??s Jonasson. Giannini was asked. The other had screamed ??fucking nigger?? several times at the manager and forced him to lie on the floor. some years ago. The following is important: (1) Before Zalachenko was shot he denied everything and claimed that it could only have been Niedermann who shot and buried you. In the States a special group of internal spy chasers was created within the C. He had filled in the gaps by saying that Bjurman had made a deal with Zalachenko which collapsed when Bjurman lost control. We??ll have to keep an eye on both of them. When the Security Police was reorganized under Per Gunnar Vinge in 1964 and became the Security Division of the National Police Board. rather. That report alleges that the Security Police and the psychiatrist Peter Teleborian co-operated to place Lisbeth Salander in psychiatric care. ??I spent the whole afternoon going over Henry??s documentation. They were dealing with at least three murders with the bodies found buried on the property.. She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and pulled the electrodes off her arms and chest. That means that I work for you and not for anyone else. Eleven rooms and apparently a bit of a snazzy joint. More or less. ??Here??s the plan. 19.?? ??No.E.

No energy at all. He had sent for the police and the Rescue Service. In this way Plague could also monitor outgoing calls from Ekstr?m.?? ??You don??t quite understand the hard economic facts. Ronald Niedermann. Jonasson did not hesitate to classify Salander??s condition as critical. Just tell us. I got in at the same time he did. had decided to harass her.?? ??It??s an inconvenience because you have to turn off the alarm every time you come downstairs. Then Falun waited on the landing as Sandberg went in.?? Armansky said. it was a junior officer called Gunnar Bj?rck who received him in his capacity as administrator of the Immigration Division. and then by telephone. We have an excellent film of how they break in and go through my papers. She felt unreasoning panic mixed with disbelief. from sweat droplets and two hairs from Bjurman??s apartment were matched to items from Niedermann??s room in Gosseberga. She found a message from Susanne Linder. ??You should start working out yourself. Sonja.?? ??Why was that??? ??He was sweet. or rather two. All such matters should be discussed with Malin.

Right now. I??ll be back in Stockholm tomorrow if nothing else comes up. The focus has shifted to Niedermann. her army scattered.00 Jonasson came up to the ward just as Dr Endrin was about to go home. He felt inadequate but all of a sudden realized that he might be luckier than he deserved.?? he said. which meant he was thin and wiry. for the sake of fairness.?? ??Holm is not best pleased???? ??I??m not best pleased with Holm. and had managed only by holding a gun on him the whole time. He leaned back and looked ridiculously pleased with himself. if I do an examination??? She nodded. how??? ??Tell me what you want to know. Camilla. little girl. Chairman of the Board Borgsj? arrived at 2. but it had a strong moral and emotional impact. Of course not. ??And what are you going to do with that? Shoot me? You??ll spend the rest of your miserable life in prison. It was an unpleasant thought. She??s hiding something.M.

Dakota. Then it vanished from his field of view and he heard the engine slowing to land. it could be a major step forward in your career. She wondered whether she ought to go into the city to spend the night at a hotel. ??Not a thing. ??Millennium came out today. She was almost certain the woman had not seen her. But use your judgement. So there is no record of him until the ??70s.?? ??I??m all ears. She stopped in the doorway. ??You wanted to know if Ekstr?m had a meeting. He warmly recommended that she be given the care she quite clearly needed. She waited while he read her four pages. The question is. time to get up. ??It is. He looked at her for a while from the doorway before he went in and sat down on the edge of the sofa and woke her. put on coffee. Zalachenko dragged himself to the toilet.?? It was not until after 10. With the result that he was bound to express himself rather imprecisely. an anal plug.

?? ??You??ve talked to Blomkvist??? ??Apparently he??s been arrested and cuffed. Any other outcome was unthinkable.?? ??Forgive me for mentioning this. and transferred by way of the assistant head of Secretariat to the Section. Lisbeth had aroused attention in other quarters as well. How else to explain the fact that he had been so fucking stupid. and shortly after the murder he was told to get in touch with the G?teborg police. as you know. as far as we can tell. Blomkvist briefly explained what had happened and asked Cortez to pass the information to Millennium??s editor-in-chief. Blomkvist had his arm around her shoulders. Blomkvist hesitated. I??m not some temp. taxis.?? ??Why did you become a police officer??? ??Because when I was seventeen a close friend of mine was mugged and raped in a car by three utter bastards. it??s Berger. is still one of the big papers. That??s a horrendous statistic. ??Her father??s daughter.S. * Zalachenko lay awake for a long time after the man who called himself Jonas Sandberg had left. and worked on her computer.M.

Clinton??s career was hard to follow.B. could present a more forceful strategy. promises of future assignments.?? Edklinth said. if anyone starts talking. Gullberg. I can??t determine what it is. One bullet had entered the outer side of her hip and gone straight through the muscle tissue. wary look. Her gaze fell on Holm.?? ??Oh yes??? ??And then I want to go home and go to bed with my husband. We don??t need to hide the fact that they concern playing down the Zalachenko affair in the media and so forth.?? ??Do you have your car nearby??? ??The last time I checked it was in the parking space outside. The organization in London had been very willing to supply the evidence. If you want to initiate any psychiatric treatment of her. 9. ??I just want to say that we on the police force don??t put much faith in Zalachenko??s story.?? she said. ??You know as well as I do that a loosely formulated document that was written in the mid-??60s isn??t worth a damn today.M. Now go. ??Give us a written order and the authority we need.

??Maybe they??re out. S. Fuck you. The blood had coagulated at the entry wound in her head. Accordingly.?? Blomkvist said. but he??ll try to get out of the country as soon as he can.?? Salander said nothing. That had to be the most idiotic intelligence operation in the history of the world. ever since a woman Member of Parliament had received death threats. Publication would be a serious blow to Borgsj?. so she could not see the front door itself. ??Are you ready to come back to work??? Clinton looked up. Henry. ??As Prime Minister you may not influence the judicial process in any way. I can honestly say that I would have wanted very much to know him better. then crossed Belgium by way of Liege. He spent a chapter debunking first what the press had written about Salander.?? ??Where did you meet??? ??In the lobby of some hotel. There is a strong likelihood that she too would have been his victim. Dr Endrin wanted me to look in on her. it means that a group of officers within S. He leaned back and looked ridiculously pleased with himself.

slept in her bed. You beat the police by several lengths when you tracked down Zalachenko and identified Niedermann.?? ??Who are they??? ??Lindstr?m on the second floor. This was correct procedure. ??First of all. On Sunday she had a temperature of 102. or Swedish Internal Security ?C S. He turned left on to Kungsgatan. Zalachenko had heard the rumour of a ??Red Jumper. ??Hello. if you add in your annual bonus. Blomkvist was the only one absent from the meeting.?? Edklinth said. In the area around the warehouse in Nykvarn we have so far found three graves.?? ??Precisely.P. All the company??s secrets and emails ?C along with some fake documents that might lead people to think that its C. but roughly half of all the calls that Ekstr?m made on his mobile from anywhere near police headquarters were monitored and recorded.?? ??Two weeks should be sufficient. of course. My prints are all over the house. she should be on her feet well before then. He??s charming.

The Prime Minister needed something from him and presumably had no idea how much Blomkvist knew or did not know.?? ??I don??t think I??m going to like this. The bullet is located away from the major blood vessels. But the pain was manageable. and there??s been such turmoil here that I buried it.00. plus eight apartments in a small building in the courtyard.00 on Saturday morning to the ringing of his telephone.I.?? ??You amaze me. ??Hardly. He would hate to be dragged into any sort of scandal. This Amazon reign was a gynaecocracy. He??s never referred to in any newspaper or trade journal. But first he would have to get strong enough to make his escape. All democracy has its limits. and force the board to dismiss Borgsj?. The fact was that if Salander could claim to have any sort of family or group affiliation. If the staff hadn??t been cut. ??I??m really sorry that somebody decided to target you for this ugly campaign. The only thing that doesn??t quite fit is that he seems to be an evangelical and was a member of the Word of Life in the ??90s. to help disseminate. ??O.

??And there??s no doubt in your mind ???? Blomkvist shook his head. psychiatrist Lars Faulsson. He seemed to have difficulty breathing; he kept one hand on Gullberg??s shoulder. ??And there??s going to be war when we publish it.?? ??There was a ?? Clinton. He slowed and turned on his windscreen wipers. Clinton had gone into business as a management consultant. sociological or scientific rationale. took a double room. who for some reason wanted to involve Teleborian in a scandal. You??ll finish off this week with your ordinary duties and report in here on Monday. with the help of Berger??s account.00 in the evening. She reached for the telephone to call him. I??m going to make you so happy. She had not. I never read the emails.F.?? ??I understand. I could do it in my sleep. Zalachenko??s case should have ended up in Counter-Espionage. ??The long and the short of it is that we??re to hand all our material on Salander over to him this afternoon. ??Are we agreed that I pass this on to my contact??? Armansky said.

but they never argued either.U.?? Modig tilted her head to one side. This is really great. ??Thanks for the coffee. the police. this is a preliminary investigation and the police are handling it.I. The other had screamed ??fucking nigger?? several times at the manager and forced him to lie on the floor. The body produces a pain-suppressing chemical and you become addicted to it. Most regrettably it was Thorbj?rn F?lldin who became Prime Minister. and we??re of the same mind: until we know more about the person making the threat.?? ??Sure. At present he??s being sought only for the murder of Officer Gunnar Ingemarsson. which he did in broken English. You??re right about that. albeit under guardianship. He was on duty until 6. Tell me.G. The movie they had playfully made was definitely not for general release.?? She paused for a moment. still not touching the computer.

Someone had sprayed in metre-high letters on the back wall: WHORE It was just after 9. There was more than a trace of admiration in his voice. What actually convinced her to decide to play the game Blomkvist??s way was her desire for revenge.30. hotel rooms. He smoked a cigarette while he thought.?? Berger barely looked up from her position by the window. ??Can you explain what prompted her to do that??? ??You would have to ask my daughter. stopped at the desk of the new assistant chief of Secretariat.?? ??Next question. Blomkvist then made two mistakes. told the whole truth either to Armansky or to his sister.?? Jonasson sat speechless for a moment. She had no idea where he was giving the lectures.?? ??Believe it or not. He had used her system disks to restore her computer to a functioning state. He would scorch us out of sheer malice. He was not entirely sure what the letter of the law was on this point. 3. His injuries seem to be similar to those of a car crash victim ?C it??s hardly credible that anyone could do such damage with his bare hands: a broken leg.?? ??Perfectly understood.?? It took ten minutes for Giannini to give him her account. chatted a while.

S. but if I had spontaneously to hazard a guess. He hesitated for a long time. ??I can assure you. ??Wouldn??t you like to come and work for us??? ??Not on your life. The electrodes.?? Salander smiled lopsidedly. She glanced at Blomkvist. and to make matters worse. She read through it carefully. This is my colleague Inspector Modig from the Stockholm police.?? Edklinth said.?? Edklinth frowned. He is to gather information that can be turned over to the Prosecutor General. Figuerola raised a hand.I. Frisk stood up and made to follow.?? ??That??s good. As soon as he changed the subject. I??m just here to have your version of the story and find out what your intentions are ?? so that we can work out a common strategy. Nieminen switched on an overhead light. He explained that it had been decided that the investigation into the police killing in Gosseberga ?C for which Ronald Niedermann was being sought ?C would be placed under the jurisdiction of a prosecutor in G?teborg. In addition.