tech to take the car back on his way home. ??Compare his face with this passport photograph of Gullberg.

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Criminal Inspector. ??I??m going to Kungsholmen now. no question??? ??Yes. the computer automatically sent an alarm. Discussions are ongoing as to whether to combine all the charges against your client under the jurisdiction of a prosecutor in Stockholm and tie them in with what happened here. He nodded. Blomkvist began to explain what had happened. This is a unique situation and applies only to Salander. Yet he was not hungry. but unacceptable for a newly appointed editor-in-chief. and then he went to a pharmacy to buy a toothbrush and other toiletries. I won??t.?? ??It sounds like a good way for me to get booted off the force.U. however. He seems to like his job. ??You don??t like the Security Police.?? Nieminen shut his eyes for ten full seconds. Or. she had kept on playing with the equations. he was suspected of running errands for the Yugoslav mafia.C. Berger??s decision was made.

?? ??I??m only too happy to hear it. In some sections she was particularly reticent about details and went to a lot of trouble not to supply any evidence that could back up in any way the many claims she was making. out of the blue. Karl Axel Bodin. and telecommunications.?? ??You said there was no rush. They do their best to ignore anything they hear about us.?? Erlander said. She wondered whether she was mad. we won??t be able to draw any conclusions.?? ??I heard she??s at Sahlgrenska. ??Do we have the name of the assailant??? Eriksson shook her head as the telephone rang again. He was satisfied with the progress of her physical rehabilitation. We have no authority to travel to Holland to interview the ambassador. ??Which way is he facing??? Figuerola said. She watched the woman as she stood in the queue at the kiosk.?? Edklinth stared at Figuerola. drank a cup of black coffee and ate a slice of wholemeal toast with cheese and a little marmalade on it. a matter which was still under investigation. Danielsson. but he did not want to seem very unclever by asking questions. ??Evert.?? ??Which positions??? Berger said.

Edklinth turned to Blomkvist. regular operations. I can??t do it ?? that would be presumptuous of me.?? Modig blinked twice. ??Peter. Editor-in-Chief Morander died at lunchtime. 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. Both of you.?? he said. We thought that it would be best for all concerned if she disappeared into some institution again and availed herself of the opportunities there. ??This can all be solved quite simply.?? ??A sort of secret spy police??? ??There are in fact parallels overseas. There was a period in which he spent every waking minute in front of his computer screen. had acquiesced. It was his last editorial and it would be a crying shame not to print it. Then I??ll get started by giving you a message from Mikael.K. Jew-lover.?? ??Do you know anything about how Salander is? I??ve been sound asleep since I last saw you. So that they might have children they were granted a leave of absence. ??What you have to understand is that the Section functions as the spear head for the total defence of the nation. She estimated the length of a step at 60 centimetres. practically around the clock from 1976 on.

But he had stopped the bleeding from the wounds in her hip and shoulder in the simplest possible way. But they had never worked together.. Both understood that Edklinth was covering his back. consultant at the Trades Union Federation ?C his only venture into the I. but here the task was simplified by the fact that the letters he was writing would be signed by himself. until the immigration authorities decided that Ghidi did not have sufficient grounds for a residency permit. The Section had its offices at Kungsholmen.m. Plus she had stolen Magge??s Harley. although neither of the men were paying her any attention.?? Gullberg said. some squiggles on a piece of paper. but it ought to be brought into a single investigation.?? Blomkvist looked at her. Lillian had cleaned it with alcohol and put a bandage on it. When he checked the clock he quickly closed his iBook. If you don??t want to give me an answer to something. Then her eyes fell on a nurses?? table by the wall three metres from her bed. She was looking for Zalachenko. Fr?ken Salander. The survival of the patient depended on the extent of the damage and on Dr Jonasson??s skill. ??Exactly.

She took another step and pain shot through her entire foot. even though he is a journalist. It dawned on her that here he was calmly talking of the possibility of there being a threat to her life. How on earth is he going to react? Then he realized that Berger had stopped talking.?? ??That is unforgivably incompetent.I.V. There were plug sockets by the door and in the panel behind the bed. and would value the chance to gauge how much deterioration has occurred over the past ten years. Fredrik Clinton. I had never heard his name before.?? ??That??s pretty vague. ??If any of you need a little personal time. But you ought to know that you could easily kill an intruder with a golf club. Teleborian.?? ??But those journals contain mostly scholarly papers and pure research. She knew that Blomkvist was doing a lot of whispering with Cortez and Eriksson and Malm about the Salander story. I check out every car that catches my attention.v Salander spent most of Wednesday night and early Thursday morning reading Blomkvist??s articles and the chapters of the Millennium book that were more or less finished. now a well-known psychiatrist often seen on T. He checked that nobody else was in the corridor. I??m swamped too. and a mentally ill lesbian mass murderer.

at the same time as we install the movement detectors outside the house. Ekstr?m was most upset. of course.P.P.?? She met his gaze. looking at him with amused affection. nor did he have the feeling that he was being watched or followed. I just want to leave the flowers. that the discrepancy arises. ??It??s a police killing and the press is out in force. Blomkvist. was possibly that in his day there was nobody who would have come up with the wild idea of ordering raw fish. Sonja.C.?? ??I??m not going to compete with you.P.?? ??Tell me about our relationship to S. injure any vital areas. He was still at Millennium. we had a hell of a lot of work to do here???? ??You??re saying I wasn??t available??? Eriksson nodded. Then she looked up at him and answered every question in a perfectly matter-of-fact way. as I said.

schedules and other uninteresting stuff. Bublanski explained why he was calling.?? ??Then what??? ??We kept close track of Lisbeth during those months. She turned to look at Enrico. Her neck had been broken when her head was turned 180 degrees. This was largely due to the fact that no-one was quite sure who or what should be investigated. You have to either verify or dismiss the claims one by one. You and I and perhaps a few other people might need to sit down for a chat. She found a scarf and wrapped it around her foot and tied it tight.v Superintendent Torsten Edklinth. I can only see Jonas?? back and that bloody psychoanalyst mumbles when he speaks. And they??re going to get it a few days before the trial. compared to all other handguns. The K. and then attended a vocational school and earned a certificate as a trained telecommunications technician. That held for a few minutes until the head of Budget pointed out that S. When she came back to Sweden. It meant that the creation of the Section appeared to be just another routine matter. He seems to like his job. but I??m responsible for her. he would be forced to tender his resignation immediately. She was the most unlikely person Berger could turn to with any hope of getting help. The pain in his jaw was still excruciating and he could manage only liquid food.

you control the operation. He knows who I am. He was offered supervisory training a few years ago but turned it down. It was. now a well-known psychiatrist often seen on T.I. Talk with doctors.?? ??You don??t understand what you??re asking.E. that the government might want to do so. Chairman of the Board Borgsj? arrived at 2. but she was in such wretched shape that I didn??t make any real contact with her. She pulled open a drawer in the hall where she kept scarves. which was active in the late ??90s. He was Inspector Bergling.000 kronor. But I can??t pay before I have access to the Internet. but he was a Kurd.?? ??You never considered the fact that there might be something wrong with the arrangement??? ??No.?? ??I haven??t had the least connection to the Enskede business. Lisbeth is an extraordinary person. That??s a horrendous statistic.?? Silence.

?? ??Try.I. ??Since I was a teenager. Blomkvist was thinking.K.?? ??She has been shot three times. An intelligence agent who let his cock rule any part of his life was obviously not a good intelligence agent. Time and again he urged the man to cut his ties and disappear from their lives. Nieminen estimated that Svavelsj? M. He had offered credentials to indicate that he worked for S. If you want to initiate any psychiatric treatment of her. had butterflies in his stomach as he asked his team leader Inspector Bublanski to take a seat opposite him.?? Armansky sat down opposite Bublanski. It would be as it was in the ??80s.?? ??Understood. and besides. Or that he could. If you don??t want to give me an answer to something. a mass murderer.?? The P. there??ll still be a scandal. She opened her laptop and summarized the situation in an email to Armansky. but the minister here said that you were a prudent person.

injure any vital areas.G. There??s a darker area here. Blomkvist must have blackmailed Bj?rck. but tell Armansky that Erika Berger called and make damn sure someone comes round in the morning. * Zalachenko lay awake for a long time after the man who called himself Jonas Sandberg had left. He glanced at the E. Giannini came in. The woman??s face had been replaced with Berger??s. Before he turned up out of the blue at a meeting with Gullberg. she had had it up to here with other work. This was the coup de grace. Two years ago he was on sick leave for four months. piecing together what had happened overnight. ??I can take care of Ekstr?m. Over the years Millennium had published several of his articles and Blomkvist had great faith in his ability to gather background material. Constitutional Protection. ??I read Bj?rck??s S?po report this evening. and S. lit a cigarette. this is an extreme state of affairs.I. he was operated on last night too.

The person responsible in such a case is the criminal civil servant ?C or civil servants ?C who overstepped his authority. Right now. We??ll be going in as soon as it can be done.?? Blomkvist laughed.?? ??He tried to kill me. It was entitled [Read this first]. Instead he booted up his iBook and plugged the cable into the broadband jack. out of shape as he was. and then sat down with his iBook. Could you find Johannes Frisk and bring him to my office asap??? She waited patiently until Holm sauntered into the glass cage with the reporter Frisk in tow. I can??t do that if I have to cut staff. maintenance and I. He was asleep by 11. feel the need to get in touch with the police ?C of their own accord. I??m perfectly aware that this is going to create difficulties in the office. we have to know who they are. He knew things about her that she would never want published.?? ??Quite so.?? ??Hello. Don??t worry ?? it??s painted white and looks just like a normal bedroom door. Careerist. and finally the preliminary investigation leader. Salander has been subjected to a number of infringements of her rights.

and that large freestanding building. The reason was simple. and he had no idea what they were talking about. I would consider some form of autism. but she could not remember how.iv ?C Sunday.30 a. In the United States you can cross-examine members of the government in a normal court of law. for the life of him he could not comprehend how she had managed to dig herself out of Niedermann??s trench. The only thing he seemed capable of grasping was that the badly damaged girl being cared for by the medics on the floor next to the kitchen bench was the triple murderer Lisbeth Salander. He focused his gaze on the computer screen. or perhaps more accurately in the secret service of the social-democratic welfare state. ??Maybe you??re just bothered by seeing a girl with muscles. ??Dr Jonasson??? He turned towards her.?? ??Harsh words.C. ??Tell me your plan. And it??s only temporary. ??I can suggest a few names.?? Waltari said. There were plug sockets by the door and in the panel behind the bed. Cortez left the Academy bookshop running like a madman. she continued down the hill and turned right at the corner of Pryssgr?nd.

He checked that nobody else was in the corridor.?? said Holmberg. Then she retreated slowly to the bed. Embarrassing. Lottie is going to join you in a few minutes as back-up. Documentation to the hilt.?? she said. When the next two shots came she tried to get her legs over the edge of the bed. This thought upset Zalachenko. I have to think about this. As luck would have it. ??Explain. Don??t use my email. The immediate reason for calling the press conference was that he wanted to deny the rumours already being circulated in the media. It??s about the police investigating the possibility that Lisbeth Salander was mixed up in the sale of anabolic steroids. She heaved a sigh of relief when Berger closed her bedroom door. Jonasson met them in the emergency admissions area. He could not be sure why the Prime Minister had set up a meeting with him in a borrowed apartment in ?stermalm. she put on one shoe and stuck the toes of her injured foot into the other. It was a job she enjoyed. an anal plug. ??The biggest industry in Sweden by far is construction.?? ??You can absolutely rely on me as long as you don??t reveal that you??re engaged in any sort of criminal activity.

SisterJen. Then there were a hundred other details. Most of them never come here. we want surveillance on that apartment around the clock. One was from another member. Cortez sat on the sofa in Eriksson??s office looking guilty.?? Modig nodded. pain shot like a knife through his back. Holm met her gaze. this is a good story. He could not identify any one of them. We??ll deal with any problems as and when they crop up. to be exact.?? She lay quiet for a moment. Blomkvist had approved a sum of 14. This led each of them to distrust the group and at the same time concoct imaginative conspiracy theories about it. and he got to drink whisky at a discreet club in London with the chief of M. ??Could I get an owner of a red Audi??? she said. ??I??ll call her and arrange to meet. ??It feels to us as though the score between the private investigators and the police investigators is about 3?C0.??. Worse still. If these very unpleasant pranks continue we will have to consider reporting them to the police.

?? said Andersson. now hidden behind the bedside table. which began with KAB. We have excellent documentation in Dag Svensson??s notes. V. ??You could turn out to be a bad habit. ??Blomkvist. After Salander??s attack on Zalachenko. He seems to like his job. ??She??s not hurt. ??Are you sure??? ??Yep. ??It is legal. Salander grabbed it from him. It had been the stupidest moment of her life and she would never again allow herself those sorts of feelings. you have to admit. and that there are forces at work you haven??t even dreamed of.V.?? ??When and why??? ??I don??t know when. She had no intention of doing that.?? ??Who??? Frisk hesitated. We are both of us sorry that you were subjected to Paulsson??s rather primitive way of operating. promising to make it up to him as soon as she could get home. That would have required extensive access to the Swedish cable network.

They were to take a taxi to police headquarters on Ernst Fontells Plats. In 1983.?? ??I don??t have any better suggestions. You??re going to be charged with G. And I said I??d talk to you about it. and the double theft of the Salander report. I have to tell you.?? ??For what possible reason??? ??This happened in 1991. Even if they provoke you or accuse you of whatever ?? Can you promise me??? ??I could manage that. When the police arrived one of them tried to question Lisbeth before they even bothered to ask what shape she??s in. It also laid down that information about Zalachenko would not leave the Prime Minister??s office.?? ??That was after Stig Wennerstr?m. At first she said no. go to Yahoo group [Idiotic_Table]. but it ought to be brought into a single investigation. unfortunately. the news editor. ??A mutual friend spoke with you. The woman turned the corner at McDonald??s and Figuerola hurried after her. A Colt 1911 Government ?C that??s the pistol that Blomkvist tried to hand in to Paulsson. The killer is Ronald Niedermann. She had 200 kronor in cash from Annika Giannini to pay for sweets from the hospital snack shop. Then she was allowed to go back to sleep.

Plague was an intelligent and socially gifted citizen. Alexander. you have to trust me. He had ridden over there with Lundin to burn the damned summer cabin down. 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. On the other hand. It??s a public document. Vinge??s memoir as propaganda. where everyone knew everyone else. She reached for a notebook. He would scorch us out of sheer malice. and that something serious must have happened if you wanted to see me outside all normal channels. he shouldn??t have had a clue that she was Zalachenko??s daughter; it??s not in any public records. He looked through it for a minute before he found the number. intimidated many of her male colleagues. P.00 Edklinth arrived. took on the first patient who was wheeled in ?C an elderly man with his head bandaged.?? was Paulsson??s immediate response. I don??t know exactly what happened here tonight.?? Modig and Holmberg exchanged glances. there??s good reason for you to be worried. Power Struggle for S?po by Erik Magnusson.

For a second he seemed a stranger. All this nonsense about security classification was little more than words anyway. Gullberg had worked in Counter-Espionage.?? ??I??m not trying to evade your question. Through a glass pane in the door he saw the nurse take the bouquet into Zalachenko??s room. mug. Are you awake??? ??No. But even Lidbom??s book brought Blomkvist no closer to an answer to his questions. but since I had already filed a report. It was signed by a Dr Jesper H. we do have Modig and Holmberg on the scene in G?teborg. pointing at the photograph. Karl Axel Bodin would disappear into rehabilitative custody. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Svea Construction Inc. It was our treasury. For the life of him Gullberg could never imagine why his former boss P. There might have been some risk that the sound of the breaking window would be heard and someone might have reacted ?? but your house sits at an angle and the sound was deflected by the facade. It was supposed to be left on for a few more days until the wound in her head began to heal. Edklinth shot her a glance. and appropriated its secrets.?? Her heart sank. She had got used to his visits. She happened to identify him and track him down to Gosseberga.

?? Armansky said. As he talked to Berger.?? Erlander closed his mobile.A. Then the memories came rushing back to her. and that in turn would lead to even more damaging speculation and perhaps yet more insistent investigation. He wondered whether he was becoming paranoid. When he was faced with the prospect of deportation. one of Ghidi??s uncles paid the equivalent of 50. obviously. She turned ice-cold and spent the next five minutes searching the bathroom and going through the stacks of papers and newspapers in the kitchen and bedroom.?? Erlander sighed. He had not said a word about the Wennerstr?m story either ?C not even Berger had known ?C but this time he had two confidants. ??Me too. He was there without warning. ??Holmberg ?? it??s nice of you to offer. A locksmith with a criminal record who??s probably being paid to open your door. But don??t forget that this was during the period when the Soviet Union was collapsing and the K. client confidentiality and so forth. assault. Then he opened his own shop. went back into her office and closed the door. ??Someone might see us together and start to wonder.

He got into his Volvo and drove towards the city but turned off to go across Stora Essingen and Gr?ndal into S?dermalm.?? ??Do you have your car nearby??? ??The last time I checked it was in the parking space outside. When Andersson had left for the day. department. Which will be in about an hour. After a while she turned her head. It simply could not have been the government.?? ??Nonsense. But Jonasson was head of the trauma unit. He was Prime Minister at the time. They waited for almost an hour before Inspector Erlander arrived from Gosseberga with Blomkvist. He would have to turn to the chief to secure political support for what he was working on. that the picture painted of her on the billboards is nonsense.?? Jonasson looked so sceptical that Blomkvist had to laugh.M. ??It??s a police killing and the press is out in force.?? ??When and why??? ??I don??t know when. And when that happens.?? ??I??m not interested in military secrets.?? ??I want copies of the letters. said: ??Yes. and while he??s gone. If she??s sentenced to a secure psychiatric facility.

nothing urgent. other people can. lifted him off the ground. when the district court released her back into society. V. ??Good evening. Lottie is going to join you in a few minutes as back-up. and would have to be removed. Thanks for coming. Salander swore in frustration and pinged Plague. Are you awake??? ??No. Then he took his mop and swabbed the corners in the reception area where the brushes of the floor polisher could not reach. And he could not help feeling flattered that he was being given information ?C off the record.U.m. of course. This isn??t the first time I??ve handled Top Secret information. I never used it. but the fact is we could have sent her home the same day. It was not until Wednesday night. The first year??s budget amounted to 52. obviously. including members of the prominent Baksi family.

but he was in no position to pick and choose among defecting G.S. Von Rottinger. you have a number of loyal idiots working on your behalf.P.?? ??She doesn??t know Niedermann at all. Considering the media attention.m??. You stay here and sit down. make her way to his farm.. They asked pretty much the same questions about Niedermann as they had the night before.?? he said.?? ??Falsifications??? ??I think that??s the only appropriate description. or what they were about. muggings and telephone tapping. Oh no.S. The message consisted of a single line: Caf?? Madeleine. It was not a perfect plan. After she was gone Blomkvist called the hospital in Sahlgrenska and tried to get some information about Salander??s condition. He was bound to take Nystr?m at his word.?? Bublanski cleared his throat.

so Dr Endrin is probably going to discharge you. She recognized him as the other man Malm had photographed outside the Copacabana on May Day. but they were constantly being interrupted by Baksi??s mobile. which has Bj?rck instructing Teleborian to falsify a mental examination.?? Sandberg said at last. the Swedish Security Police were amateurs. ??This is a man with an impressive criminal history. Let??s stick to that.?? ??Damn. ??Find out what he??s working on.?? ??What sort of burns??? ??I??m guessing a taser.??Friday. He refers to it as the Zalachenko club.?? ??No need to apologize. And when Giannini reached the very crux of the whole chain of events. Her hands are tied. The problem was that Ekstr?m seldom or never used it for work-related calls. who had been silent for almost half an hour. Nine times out of ten. Don??t use my email. And after a while she had completely lost interest in her shower and pulled him back to bed. Erlander kindly arranged for a crime scene tech to take the car back on his way home. ??Compare his face with this passport photograph of Gullberg.