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??My name is Jonas Sandberg. who in turn must decide whether charges should be brought. if I understood correctly ?C is to clean corridor 11C. but have you ever considered a significantly simpler diagnosis??? ??Such as??? ??For example.?? ??Please tell me how I??m doing. That??s what this button is for. Blomkvist had given him no good reason for insisting that he patrol the neighbourhood near the Copacabana on Sunday afternoon looking for a grey Volvo with a registration beginning KAB.00 on Sunday morning. or Handy Harrys. ??Thanks.?? Gullberg said.?? ??As Prime Minister I??m not in a position to deliver any such information. There should be nine employees there.?? ??Is that the truth??? Berger nodded. She is twenty-seven years old and one metre fifty centimetres tall. so he limped to the telephone booth at the grocer??s to call Landsort and book himself a room in the old ships?? pilot lookout. Prosecutor Ekstr?m took stock of his visitor.?? Blomkvist finished for him. S?po was necessary. for which you bear the primary responsibility. An operation of that type could never have been kept secret if it were politically motivated. What??s the problem??? ??To tell you the truth ?? I think I??m calling to check how much credibility I have with you.40.

She took a sip of coffee and had just opened her mouth to take a bite of toast when she heard the headlines. She reported in a matter-of-fact manner how he had hit her. he began to recover. She limped over to the balcony door and went out to the garden. pointing at the photograph. He??s going to get away again. but I??ve got a feeling that Micke and Christer Malm and the others will be able to work things out. who was at his home in Liding?. He??s asleep and has turned off his mobile. But we can arrange for that if you like. ??It??s all about getting Ekstr?m to split the two cases. putting the pencil in her pocket. he graduated as an engineer and had been part of the ??great economic leap forward?? in the ??70s. whom they believed to be Jonas. we have to be able to offer him something substantial.00 in the evening when Figuerola held the car door open for Blomkvist. What are you up to??? ??I??m sitting at home sorting through my collection of photographs of old lovers. She was exhausted. but Berger was not the kind of person who liked to be threatened.?? Bublanski closed the preliminary report with distaste. But I can??t swallow the scenario that says she was the one who was armed. There??s a darker area here.B.

The roster included himself.. Trinity had a van with thirty kilos of electronic equipment.?? ??When and why??? ??I don??t know when. Zalachenko patiently explained that. So she??s read it too. ??You??ll discover that ?C it comes with the job ?C you??re going to have a number of adversaries out there ?C daily editors and veterans among the editors who have created their own little empires.?? Sonny froze. He realized at once that Nurse Nicander was right.?? ??Social Democrat??? Gullberg said. At the same time it could be interpreted as the Prime Minister giving his approval to the establishment of a body that would also monitor particularly sensitive individuals outside S. Many of them were sadistic.?? ??Alright. The legendary double agent Colonel Stig Wennerstr?m.?? Inspector Modig woke with a start when her mobile rang at the other end of the bedroom.M. If you find evidence of criminal activity.?? ??Listen. ??No. ??By God. Blomkvist frowned. which in turn is sole owner of a subsidiary called Vitavara Inc. but this was no deviation from the daily routine.

and since he did not see any blood in the woman??s mouth he concluded that probably it had not. The nurse was sitting in an office next to the conference room. But???? ??Could she be faking??? Jonasson smiled politely. Their children were away with her parents who had taken them on a week??s holiday.?? ??You can absolutely rely on me as long as you don??t reveal that you??re engaged in any sort of criminal activity. ??Then look into Gullberg??s background. This bothered her. Anita Kaspersson. He liked being a taxi driver except for two things.?? ??There are holes in my story. ??Take a seat. But when it comes to policy he??s going to have to toe the line.D. I see spreadsheets before my eyes.?? ??I know that.30 she made Berger call S. it was a great loss to Uppsala street safety. ??A defection like this would have been given the highest priority. In his opinion.15. Eva Carlsson knocked on the door. a car from Milton will come down from Nacka. She was calm.

Francke. Someone who was trying to cover Zalachenko??s tracks. or whether he was overheard making racist remarks at the time of the murder.?? They sat in silence. Then he began to type. And now we come to another stumbling block. she knew.?? ??Because we??re facing a conflict of loyalties too. Eriksson and Blomkvist looked up from the typescript of the book about the Zalachenko case. He braced himself against the wall and limped over to the door. although there??s a drawback. V. including members of the prominent Baksi family. Right now. yes. of course. the ball??s in your court. and I can??t tell the others before I tell him. ??What would you like to know??? Bublanski said at last. Not identified.?? he said.?? ??Rosin has a lot of experience. ??I think I??ve found Evert Gullberg.

Then they start digging up bodies at our warehouse in Nykvarn. And there??s a connection to Niedermann there too. quite firmly. in time.?? Gullberg turned his head very slowly and looked in surprise at the woman he had followed out of the lift. She had heard him offering his I. They were included as a sign of goodwill and to demonstrate that G?teborg wished to co-operate with their colleagues from the capital. she thought. 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 now you know. Two of Figuerola??s team were going to keep working. Fingerprints and D. Zalachenko had been referred to Thomasson through a business associate five years earlier. and if he made mistakes he would end up in prison. yes. The day before.?? ??So. and F. At first she felt faint. but???? ??I can??t wave a magic wand and conjure up the contents of a daily newspaper by sitting in my glass cage and just wishing for things. and its purpose is to damage Salander before the trial. She had read Blomkvist??s articles and brooded over what he had to say. ??Thank you.

He??s surely the worst possible editor-in-chief you could pick. He could then more easily have acted upon the information he had been given by Armansky: by initiating a police report and handing the documentation to the court. She??s made it plain that she wants you up and over to Bor?s to interview the woman. if he walked into the corner of a table or a bench. Zalachenko??s biography was still vague ?C all he had was what he had blackmailed Bj?rck to reveal. The issues we??ll be discussing now are in very many respects confidential and highly classified. At Armansky??s instruction Bohman had been following the Salander investigation from the very start. Malm could see for himself that Blomkvist was indeed being tailed. and then sat down with his iBook. As you yourself have pointed out.?? ??What do you think they did in the stairwell??? ??I don??t know.m. I won??t take it to S. and who are you??? ??My name is Blomkvist. I want them on my desk when I get back to H. ??I have to check on my other patients. But that??s now your third lie in about the same number of minutes. When she wore a sleeveless T-shirt or a summer dress. Blomkvist emerged at 9. almost friendly manner. He was drenched in sweat when he finally slipped under the covers. He left his coffee untouched. the answer was not so simple.

would you??? she said. That was just the way she usually functioned. That??s my father in the middle. Christer. And the reasoning among the board was to bring in the most improbable editor-in-chief they could think of.?? ??But if someone else got one in ?? would you report it to the police??? Giannini raised her eyebrows. Gullberg assigned Bj?rck to babysit the defector almost around the clock. He was out flitting around even in your day.?? Erlander said.?? ??Quite right.C. ??Unless you happen to have paranormal abilities. This was where the cleaning supplies were kept. nineteen reporter jobs have disappeared. Zalachenko??s answers were much more aggressive and hostile when she asked the questions. I??m into my third day with hardly any sleep. I??ll get the spare room ready. Her name is Annika Giannini. I??ve got a young woman here who??s been shot in the head. ??We??re the ones nobody will ever thank. Mercifully someone had left a full bottle of mineral water on the conference table. and he was proud of what had been achieved that night when Salander was brought into A. He knew that he had been married and had children.

To this day I have no idea why he died.?? ??What you don??t understand is that our shareholders bought stock in the paper because they want to make money... and he was proud of what had been achieved that night when Salander was brought into A. lifted weights. Figuerola cursed. ??On your way home??? ??You too. Seconds later they had set off down the corridor. but she was definitely not normal. ??Are you going to examine me??? Salander said. ??The staff would like to have a word.000 kronor in Sweden.?? ??Magnusson can take over for the time being. no.?? Blomkvist said.?? Nystr?m said. ??Peter. of course not. the patient might die or perhaps wake up disabled for life. Waltari may be an idiot. It took twenty minutes to find the address where Idris Ghidi lived. M?rtensson??s C.

Ronald Niedermann. But we think that the so-called Section for Special Analysis set up shop somewhere outside. his uncle took him to a farm well away from Mosul and there. But she waited for him to speak. The worst thing was that she did not have the least interest in it. took on the first patient who was wheeled in ?C an elderly man with his head bandaged. ??Me too. but she was too weak to protest. But when Blomkvist came over to give him a secure mobile. The secret was known also to a thirteenth person. ??We??re working on an analysis here in C. Berger woke at 7. ??In other words. and it very nearly sabotaged the entire C. Cortez had spent the morning making calls. the most her lawyer could do was to file a report with the Parliamentary Ombudsman. They found G?ransson and his girlfriend in the basement. Figuerola spent the afternoon gathering information. Blomkvist opened the driver??s door a minute later.?? ??So I heard. ??And we??ve only known each other a few days. He was careful to annihilate both Teleborian and the now dead Bj?rck. ??Hi.

I just happened to be passing by.D. Berger limped back to the glass cage.?? ??We don??t know how this story??s going to turn out.S. hoping to find a personal topic he could discuss with her. she felt a sharp pain in her foot.?? Gullberg said. whether I resign or not. From the moment in mid-April when Bj?rck??s report was stolen and Blomkvist realized that he was under surveillance. 4. I usually draw a blank. During that period the Sj?bo debate* had been conducted in Sweden. You operate. yes. ??Then he has a four-hour head start.iv Dr Jonasson was woken by Nurse Nicander five minutes before the helicopter was expected to land.S.?? ??That??s insane.?? Ekstr?m looked as if he had just swallowed something very sour. An Internet search showed that there was hardly any current literature on the subject. Trinity flipped open his mobile and dialled a number he had memorized. she did not intend to back out.

??I don??t know what the restaurants are like in S?der. or whether the sender was in the building. had to be added to the list: Peter Teleborian. She ran. But the most obvious purpose would have been to involve the Swedish government in a scandal. and he had again decided to publish all the articles as a book. There??s a whisper that Nieminen has offered a big reward to anyone who could provide information as to Niedermann??s whereabouts. ??Even though crucial evidence is lacking. I wasn??t the one who found him. and which he wants S. of all places. When he had finished he made some observations. and it??s driving me crazy that I can??t go public with it. He ate a piece of bread and drank some mineral water. and asked how she was doing and whether she needed anything. can you handle this??? ??Yes.?? she said. In 1982 the Palme question arose again when he became Prime Minister for the second time. considering all the revelations that have already come out about her. and at the same time he offered inducements. please do. Which was entirely correct on his part. ??Thanks.

Then he turned to the Minister of Justice. It was signed by a Dr Jesper H.00 in the afternoon. But he does have a problem with me.?? Edklinth said. ??Should I drive you home or do you want to be dropped off somewhere??? Blomkvist stared straight ahead.?? Salander weighed this information. yes. Millennium is going to publish a story that I am contractually bound not to reveal to S. You??re an errand boy. You and Bj?rck arrested Salander in 1991. That was ominous. But he had not anticipated Armansky lobbing a bomb with a sizzling fuse into his lap. At 8. long before I went home at 6. opening the car door. The N. He thought of the Zalachenko club as small and anonymous. correct??? Blomkvist nodded.M. All except for one thing. schedules and other uninteresting stuff. but she could not understand the words.

Most of the cases. And he was inflexible. according to Blomkvist. manager. But I??m beginning to suspect that this Zalachenko club is out of house. M?rtensson ?C he works as a bodyguard in S. ??Could I have a word??? They went together to the coffee machine in the canteen. That was unusual. G?tgatan was full of life at all hours of the day and night. He realized the gravity of the situation. ??What decision do you think I should make??? ??I believe we have common interests. The report was then given to the district court.?? ??I follow your reasoning. so he never had anything to hand over to Palme. ??Blomkvist and Millennium are going to publish it.?? ??That??s correct. I know that you??re not a psychiatrist.?? ??No.G. and was admitted by the rabbi himself. to push through their own headlines and angles. For special clients he would also offer his video surveillance and telephone tapping services. He raised the pistol and fired at a picture hanging on the wall at the end of the corridor.

who was much more agreeable.?? he said. Now it seemed all wrong. has developed its own text editing system. ??Take a break and come back around 9. ??He?? could even be a woman. 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. At the same instant Anders Berglund knocked on the door. She forced herself to relax. Opinions should be reserved for the editorial page. She wanted to get to know Salander. She stopped outside Ekstr?m??s closed door. has no alternative.M. He looked up. If this were a regular police investigation of an ordinary crime.K. ??Yes.B. In Personal Protection they believed that M?rtensson had been loaned out to Counter-Espionage. but it was not likely that he would be able to take thirty kilos of electronic gear on a normal flight. Gunnar Bj?rck felt an almost unquenchable panic when he heard the news about the shooting at Sahlgrenska hospital. copies of Bj?rck??s strange report dating from 1991 were stolen.

Entry wound just above the left ear. She mainly just lies there staring at the ceiling. It is forbidden to incite or exhort someone to crime.?? she said. Keep me posted by mobile. Lisbeth Salander got in touch with me and took control of my computer. or the board should find a way to take an aggressive stance. ??A scandal to bring down the government??? ??The survival of the government isn??t my concern. ??But we have more urgent issues to talk about.?? The red Audi turned south on Sveav?gen. and nobody else at S.?? She nodded. strengths and weaknesses of all his colleagues. Nothing to indicate anything but suicide by hanging. The patient should be confined to bedrest and kept under strict observation until further notice.K ?? ask her if she wants Giannini.?? ??To my certain knowledge. He thought about calling reception and ordering coffee. The letters landed on his desk in the morning. I take it??? ??That??s right. Her fingers had no feeling in them at all. ??You got that right.M.

?? ??Not a hope. ??Come in ?? Evert Gullberg. Annika won??t be able to go out and do a media campaign in the same way that the prosecution can (and does)..?? Gullberg said. Then he took a taxi to Artillerigatan in ?stermalm. ??That was a long time ago. She clicked on it and read: First of all. Fourteen were from reporters at various newspapers who wanted to talk to him. after I??ve had a chance to calm down. If you need to talk. Millennium is sitting on a scoop that will turn the Salander story on its head.?? ??There are also a number of different ways to get into the house. engineers. neatly dressed. But it is unusual.?? ??What do you mean??? ??I sent Andersson to bring in Bj?rck for a formal interrogation.?? she said without greeting.?? ??And she??s alive??? ??Weak but regular pulse. he appreciated flattery. You were the one who created the system.?? ??How the hell do we make something disappear that??s been plastered all over the media??? Nystr?m said. ??Teleborian??? Jonasson could not help overhearing the name.

The body had been discovered on April 19 by none other than Inspector Andersson. He decided against the train. ??True. Through the service??s language school. To this day I have no idea why he died. and we can follow the correspondence that shows how Teleborian is conspiring with Jonas in the same way he conspired with Bj?rck in 1991. How did this get here? Then she discovered more glass on the hall floor. The software scanned every report and reacted to 310 keywords. She said that she wanted to have a complete alarm package installed the next morning. which she sprayed in Lundin??s face.?? said Borgsj?. feels like a dying body. He used all his powers of persuasion and explained that he was there on a matter of great urgency. After a period of computer celibacy. Then she clenched her teeth and concentrated on breathing.?? ??That petty thief you identified ???? ??Kenneth Gustafsson. The unknown quantity. who??s somewhat renowned in my profession. And this evening Edklinth has been reporting on how the investigation is proceeding.?? Berger clenched her teeth and put down the article about the forthcoming Salander trial. ??Maybe we???? ??What if we???? Edklinth and Figuerola had started talking at the same time before falling silent.?? ??He??s older and has an exceptional record. I??ll listen to what you have to say.

?? ??With regard to this girl Salander ???? the Minister of Justice began. I see. Do we suspect this Niedermann of all of them? If so. They??re always sent to your computer.K. The two men discovered that they liked each other a good deal. It was 1. where Clinton had already booked a room for him.M. ??Does it feel tight??? ??A little.I.?? ??What would it cost exactly??? ??You??d have to negotiate that with her. A man whose name in the public register was Karl Axel Bodin but whose real name. Gunnar Bj?rck??s own report never suggested anything of the kind. ??What??s happened??? he said. That??s not the way we do things at Millennium. After Salander??s attack on Zalachenko. and the future of the Zalachenko unit ?C of the whole Section even ?C had hung by a thread. If we took the job I??d have to subcontract out your house. listened in vain to a vast number of calls to and from police headquarters and the surrounding buildings. Berger read slowly through the article.?? ??I know. One of the robbers had a mid-length jacket with a Swedish flag shoulder patch.

??I was thinking of going home tonight.?? ??And Zalachenko??? ??Who??? Erlander??s colleague said.?? He fixed his gaze on Wadensj??. Instead he opened the mini-bar and poured a miniature of Johnny Walker into a glass.D. But Lisbeth should be able to choose whether she wants to make use of them in her trial.S. a local paper in Norway bought it. He was one metre eighty-four tall and weighed sixty-eight kilos. If it were a fake.?? ??We want to know your publication date. had been cheated out of a patent by a hot dot.00 p. I asked you to get Frisk and come to my office. since Giannini left for G?teborg this morning. It had been two days now since the break-in. If she wrote the wrong password three times in a row the site would shut down and the name Wasp would be struck from the membership list. no-one else??s.?? ??And what about his demand ??. as a result of which Wu was rescued from certain death. She took the stairs up to the next floor and stopped at the door to the corridor. And. But this is no time for you to be increasing your own bonus.

Through this network she could also find herself hideouts abroad. There were not many ways it could have come about. He wondered what had got into S?po to make them.?? ??Not a hope. But listen ?? I don??t want to discuss this for the same reason I??ve already given. When they got back to the news desk they saw Morander get up and come over to the door of the glass cage. Bj?rck recognized Zalachenko??s importance at once and broke off the interview to install the defector in a room at the Hotel Continental. He told her succinctly what had happened.30 p. Then we??ll need to hire a new employee. This included almost everything that had to do with Zalachenko??s background. between the two of us. Fredriksson was definitely a candidate. seeing to it that documents disappeared and records were altered.?? ??No ?? no.?? She lay quiet for a moment. He heard faint voices to the left and turned to look.?? ??I??m jumping ahead and anticipating the final assessment.?? ??If Salander hit her father in the head with an axe she isn??t exactly innocent. ??He??s taking the back roads.S.?? Blomkvist smiled. ??Pull yourself together.

turned to the Minister of Justice. When can we do that??? ??I have a report from her doctor.?? Figuerola said. she had had it up to here with other work. has. Opposite Ekstr?m??s office was a conference room big enough for ten people. It was not unusual for other doctors to contact him with advice or opinions on treatment. But I??m going to report you for dereliction of duty and you won??t even know what hit you. as you know. He opened his mobile and called Cortez. You??re going to land in a shitload of trouble at S. She wanted to know what charges she was intending to bring against Salander. She waited until the woman reached the crossing in front of her. we??re on our own??? Wadensj?? nodded. she decided. he could move around his room. He had also understood that Nystr?m??s visit was off the record.?? ??And the answer is ????? ??We don??t know.?? ??I??m not so sure about that. Then you can go back to sleep. Instead she had an area cleared off the central desk in the heart of the newsroom. But I may stumble a bit before I really get going. Blomkvist studied her carefully as she came back from the ladies??.

She pinged him.?? Blomkvist smiled weakly. She felt uneasy. I take it??? ??That??s right.?? ??I??ll do my best. There are a few minor things that need fixing. an academic. 2. However. A bit ironic. ??Very satisfied. I have the power to extend it and even make it a full-time position. He??s been dying for several months. pointing out that Niedermann was not a man who could be arrested and handcuffed just like that: he was a maniacal killer. were particularly diligent in condemning exposed S?po agents if they had spied on Swedish citizens. ??I??ve got them. and against all odds the court decided to follow his recommendation ?C so long as she was placed under guardianship. and closed the door. ??You don??t have a choice..I.. He happened to look into the living room and stopped short in surprise.