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?? ??I don??t like this. I think I??m trying to understand something. ??By holding a gun to him. Henry ?? you??ll have to go full-time and take Malin??s place as assistant editor.?? Blomkvist laughed. but the wires stretched in the direction of the pencil. That meant that Blomkvist had about a month to finish writing and patching up all the holes in his text. He saw an unusually tall and muscular woman looking back at him with a polite. who managed to spring her loose. It had always been this way on his other visits to Black/White Publishing.?? ??Could you explain your relationship to Niedermann??? ??I??m disabled.?? It was Gunnar Magnusson. But we think that the so-called Section for Special Analysis set up shop somewhere outside. I??ve talked with the head of the legal department and fixed it so there won??t be any hassle there. Evert Gullberg saw that his whisky glass was empty. ??Zalachenko was shot dead at 1. There would be a scandal of enormous proportions.K. We have to publish.?? Berger smiled.

and that he should have nothing more to do with the matter. dear ?? please get to the point. however.?? ??It??s precisely the same thing. at Nacka hospital. We have to find allies within the bureaucracy if this is not going to end in calamity. we have to take care of a few formalities. as if brushing off a mosquito. He should have been on sick leave.?? ??Take it easy.?? ??Let him interrogate me.?? Malm sat motionless for a few seconds. 1. Then she walked back to the door and punched in the code again. ??As I said ?? all I want is the research you come up with. He sat down again. By all known reckoning she should have been dead. Somalia was a much better place for that sort of attire.H.00 in the evening.

on sick leave from his job as assistant chief of the Immigration Division of the Security Police. ??True. The court could then order all the documents on the table and summon anyone it pleased. At 8. Then she checked the hard drives of Ekstr?m (some routine correspondence about the trial) and Teleborian. Hitler salute. and Vinge was a bureaucrat of the old school. We??ve noticed it only because we??re specifically looking for it. you control the operation. and check off the allegations one by one. ??Hello. Jervas raised her hand. He knows he??s being watched. So far.?? he said. * Gullberg had begun at the Russia desk of the third division of the state police. Why am I not surprised? Berger hesitated for ten seconds. It was 1. ??Once again we have to haul you out of the furnace. She pulled open a drawer in the hall where she kept scarves.

?? ??And the third name??? Edklinth said. Most of all she wanted to crawl back into bed and take a month??s holiday. the door to her room was always locked and guarded by a fucking hit-man from Securitas. T. What the hell? Is there some sort of spy convention on Bellmansgatan today? The two men parted at the top of the hill without exchanging a word. More than 230 people. Idris Ghidi landed at Arlanda airport in Sweden on 19 October. and it definitely doesn??t work for me. He thanked the nurse and followed the sign to the staircase. You mustn??t ever forget something like that.?? ??I understand.?? Salander spent the whole day brooding about Zalachenko.?? ??Palmgren??? ??Yes.?? There was impatient muttering around the table. He refers to it as the Zalachenko club. And yet Bj?rck was the primary source of Blomkvist??s information. I??ve never seen him before. she had had it up to here with other work. Certainly. Dr Jonasson burst out laughing and shook his head.

In other words.?? she 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.?? Edklinth said. He then engaged Thomasson on a couple of other matters. shut the door behind her. and he would not exchange his appointment for any other position in the entire Swedish legal system or police force. I??ll have a copy of that. She was just reaching out to shut down her computer when her I. living on Pontonj?rgatan on Kungsholmen. ??Are we agreed that I pass this on to my contact??? Armansky said.. Ghidi was aware of the guard in the corridor. did karate. It took him several minutes. but it ought to be brought into a single investigation. took out the stylus and began to tap on the letters on the digital keypad. She had cut through all the rhetoric and intimated that the Prime Minister himself was responsible. it is a tragedy that could have been prevented if there had been more support within society. You have an infection in your body.

printed out the document and began to read it at once. along with a video of a personal nature. born 1950. and Blomkvist had never hesitated if Baksi asked him a favour. but no-one knew about his condition. Blomkvist was at the Kaffebar on Hornsgatan when he heard on the radio that a 66-year-old unnamed man. was a seriously big mistake.K.?? ??Why??s that??? ??Circulation has dropped by nearly 150.?? ??Sure. born in 1969. list everything that??s been said about her. S. As always. Zalachenko??s room was sealed off. the Minister of Defence or any other member of the government to be informed.?? She laughed. ??I had a cranial X-ray done.?? Nieminen said. Zalachenko came here in 1976.

to be sure. ??We can certainly install an alarm that will work. that would be fun. Edklinth nodded.?? Sandberg said into a handsfree mobile. Not once had he seen its driver. You can take the lift instead of going up the stairs. When he had five separate examples of a word.?? ??Disappeared??? ??Blomkvist??s copy was taken during a break-in at his apartment. She took a sip of coffee and had just opened her mouth to take a bite of toast when she heard the headlines. This included almost everything that had to do with Zalachenko??s background. ??Please hear me out.?? ??As I understand it.?? ??But isn??t that supposed to be done by her lawyer??? ??As you must have gathered by now.K. and my superiors really want to talk to you. muggings and telephone tapping. there??s a risk that a woman??s rights will be shockingly violated. and he had already written that section. and was already on his way to a higher position within the police hierarchy.

?? ??I understand. If anyone opened the door she would have quite a problem explaining what she was doing there. but a Karl Axel Bodin seems to have been born in 1942 in Uddevalla.30 on Saturday evening. ??I thought you were starting Monday. and she got it at St Stefan??s. ??My dear Mikael. she trained so hard and her body was so muscular that malicious colleagues still called her Herr Figuerola. a local paper in Norway bought it. pinged.?? ??A little. Believe me.10 this morning. And not one of us had noticed a thing.?? Bublanski said. which was no surprise since S?po was deeply involved in what had happened. Dr Jonasson was pleased with the response he had got. I can??t believe she??s gone already. and who are you??? ??My name is Blomkvist. ??I read Bj?rck??s S?po report this evening.

but he never found an answer. it is sick.?? ??So what should we do??? Bublanski said.?? She turned to Fredriksson. I know nothing about Niedermann??s affairs. We do it out at the Naval School. This too was saved in an evidence bag and labelled. A locksmith with a criminal record who??s probably being paid to open your door.?? Figuerola was on her feet and reaching for her car keys.?? Cortez said. He was advised that he alone had to make the decisions. M?rtensson reports that Blomkvist is still at the office. They settled themselves again around the table in Wadensj????s office. ??I see. He had always dreamed about the sea. a father. Flodin looked similarly concerned. Welcome. He was embarrassed to be discussing flaws in their organization in front of the visitors from Stockholm. but she noticed that he was no longer putting much effort into it.

They copied their bronze breastplates and armour from the Greeks. told him that it was the most sensitive military secret Sweden possessed ?? that there was nothing in Swedish military intelligence that was anywhere near as important. and that Salander doesn??t have a thing to do with anabolic steroids. that??s not necessarily the same thing as saying that she??s my friend. You??re right. But last night Paulsson??s behaviour was so bizarre that several of his people mentioned it to me. Deceased (Suicide?). He asked her to lean forward and placed the stethoscope on her back to listen to her lungs. He remembered him as thin with a narrow moustache.?? Edklinth said. That meant that Blomkvist had about a month to finish writing and patching up all the holes in his text. Then I??d just be in the way.?? ??That??s quite possible. I??d love to tell you the whole thing. All such matters should be discussed with Malin. Blomkvist was working on the Salander story and would not share any part of it. rigid drill sergeant type.?? ??I see. He wondered what had got into S?po to make them.?? ??Er ?? that device of yours???? ??I??ll leave it in the recess behind the table here.

??That dragon tattoo ?? Why did you get it??? ??You didn??t see it before??? He smiled all of a sudden.?? Blomkvist folded the letter and was putting it into his jacket pocket when Modig grabbed his hand. and Paolo Roberto??s intervention. And then the key witness. So. did karate. had been distracted all morning.I.?? ??I know all about Paulsson. if a group of police officers decided to stretch the laws so that an individual??s constitutionally guaranteed rights were infringed. She showered. The Zalachenko folder.I. He did not know where he was.?? He tied a sheet around his waist. Today??s message contained no text. Berger made coffee. Blomkvist took it as a sign that the Prime Minister had just broken the law ?C if only of the more academic specie ?C by giving his consent to the sharing of classified information with a journalist. He was one metre eighty-four tall and weighed sixty-eight kilos..

and film roles. We??ve come across a story that will sink your chairman.?? She handed Carlsson the printout.?? Gullberg nodded. and he did not ask any questions.?? Figuerola parked beside the Nordic Light Hotel next to the Arlanda Express platforms.P.C. Had an office here in Stockholm for thirty years: low profile. the names of today??s participants must not be mentioned in your articles.30 on Sunday evening as he and Bob the Dog were approaching Stockholm. Now it??s all about this German. It was just after 8. It was. He instinctively disliked a situation in which private muscle was doing what a government department was supposed to be doing. Between the time when she had stepped on the shard of glass and Rosin??s arrival that morning. which in turn was owned by one Anneli Karlsson. She skipped down to the fourth paragraph. At the very least Zalachenko was a witness; but in the worst case he was involved up to his neck in a series of murders. decidedly unsimple.

But of course things have become more complicated technically. ??Dag??s book went to the printer yesterday. She instantly got a pop-up dialog box that asked for her I. Annika has obeyed the rules.S. so he pushed the sushi aside. a spy. Then he turned on Salander??s computer. And Georg Nystr?m you know.T.22 calibre Browning. Then he leaned forward. leaned her crutches against the bookshelves. F?lldin said that he hadn??t known how he should handle it.?? Figuerola said. Least of all the politicians. On Saturday he had four visitors.?? ??Who got in first??? ??We got in more or less at the same time. There were computers now. In any case.

nobody??s perfect.?? he said. where she works ?? and anything else you can find. I??m not some temp. Maybe it was a planned operation that was shelved.?? ??And??? ??There are seven full-timers. No police report was ever filed. ??But a logical step would be to interrogate Zalachenko.?? The P. and dressed. let alone both of them. it could also be classified as murder.?? ??I??ll get back to you. I just want to leave the flowers. Nor did they need much convincing to carry out particular campaigns if the situation warranted.?? ??I believe you. He felt very much afraid that his suspicions were going to turn out to be justified.47. How about you? Why did you become a journalist??? ??Because there are institutions like S?po that lack parliamentary oversight and which have to be exposed from time to time. Two years ago he was on sick leave for four months.

that she could watch to relax. She spectacularly kicked the shit out of two complete thugs from Svavelsj? M.?? He got up and stood next to her to look through the glass at the newsroom. still wet behind the ears. She pushed away a plate of the health authority??s vegetable stew.?? ??Nor do I. ??Just keep working the way you always do.?? Then he added in English. I don??t know how much was true. It??s irresistible.P.?? Gullberg said. He went to his own office and sat down. Remember the Wennerstr?m affair. and Ola Ullsten came in.?? ??You don??t have to break any law.S. ??Coffee.?? ??North on Kungsgatan. 27.

He had flowers in one hand and a briefcase in the other. Then she skipped month to month and read only the subject lines. Is making coffee part of Milton??s service agreement??? He gave her a polite smile. you say??? ??I don??t believe F?lldin would have covered up something like this. ??I was hired to make S.F. I??ve visited her three times and offered to talk with her. there??s going to be a rack of other charges. ??He??s driving me nuts. of course. after careful consideration. Not surprisingly. the woman G?ransson lived with. and he??s going to do what??s best for him. ??Bjurman subjected his ward to some sort of sexual assault ???? Blomkvist shrugged and said nothing. and they enjoyed working together on a number of assignments in subsequent years. She had spent an hour infiltrating and charting the intranet at S. She sat up in bed and looked at the man beside her. He??s asleep and has turned off his mobile. She was just reaching out to shut down her computer when her I.

beforehand that is.?? ??I can??t move anywhere else. She consulted the vehicle register and found that G?ran M?rtensson was the owner of a grey Volvo with the registration number legible in the photographs. mostly so that the wound would not be exposed to bacteria or dirt. I don??t want to get flabby. Not until 2. ??Precisely. Dakota wrote. He??s never referred to in any newspaper or trade journal. Blomkvist had got two cars out of the barn. Salander visited him only once in a blue moon.v ?C MONDAY. but that Zalachenko might have any connection to the affair had not dawned on him. That year the threat of terrorism was made a priority in S. ??No. To raise the matter with the chief of Secretariat might be to chuck a very large stone into a pond. She felt uneasy. H?kan Morander. Of all the people who touched her and poked at her.A.

On page thirty-four there is a paragraph in which Bj?rck appears to suggest that Salander be branded psychotic. put on her dressing gown and leaned on a crutch. did he not??? Prosecutor Jervas said. who was also a temp. who was frequently the lone woman in a male landscape. Officially he had held a post in the Immigration Division since the ??70s.?? said Fredriksson. Then he leaned forward. G?tgatan was full of life at all hours of the day and night. Blomkvist??s face was shiny with sweat..?? ??And you??re perfectly sure about that? It??s not difficult to imagine things when you??re scared or excited. Who was also the reason why she was feeling tired and irritated.?? ??I??m sorry. V.?? ??Yes. Efficiency was valued more highly than background.U.M. and she was instead put under guardianship.

He did not need a psychiatrist to tell him that she was not normal. but we may have to postpone it for a month. M?rtensson punched in the code and they disappeared into the stairwell.22. Hallberg is retiring this year. testing his sense of balance. ??Could you turn off your telephone for a few minutes??? Baksi turned off his telephone. The chief of S. That gives us only two hours to make up for a whole lot of lost time. Her grip was hard. His murderer had shown interest also in Salander.S.?? Malm was serving up freshly made waffles with cloudberry jam and coffee. At last they exchanged glances and then looked at Blomkvist. ??Could you turn off your telephone for a few minutes??? Baksi turned off his telephone. also a hacker. Mikael Blomkvist??s story that he??s a G. It took him several minutes. So they faked a diagnosis to make sure that Lisbeth was committed. ??O.

but she had refrained from telling her anything about Bjurman. She found her shoulder bag. said.30 this morning. Before I go to press I??m going to do a formal interview with you. ??Mikael isn??t here today.?? Berger knew exactly what kind of editorial he wanted.?? ??I??m on her side. A large portion of these funds were used for investments in I. Otherwise what sounds like a cross-section of middle-class Sweden. Thomasson knew that the money came from criminal activity. And then he remembered that she had left Millennium. I beg you not to reject me. After a moment he nodded. ??we??re sitting here with P. We have to check their email. this is a good story. Malin Eriksson. would also be able to license the program to other newspapers. which indicated that the document was Top Secret.