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The government collapsed again when the moderates jumped ship.K. It sounds a little cryptic. I??ve know this person for many years.?? He nodded. It was possible that he had established some sort of rapport. She took a hammer from the tool box in the basement and put that in the master bathroom too. At first he was sceptical about the information that the excited young officer was telling him. S.?? ??Please explain. What bothered her was that something had happened at the office.?? ??But let??s save the secrets till we meet again tomorrow. It??s a big. Armansky studied Malm??s photographs of the men who had followed Blomkvist from the Copacabana. He looked through the crack in the doorway at Adamsson. But in my opinion he??s a pig. Niedermann could have taken the ferry the next morning.

but your decisions are the ones that count. ??I cut my foot. My prints are all over the house.?? Silence descended once again. was supposed to have access to everything.?? ??Which is what ????? ??Lisbeth Salander suffers from a serious mental disorder. so she could not see the front door itself. Gullberg had just come home and was watching the election coverage on T. 11. Millennium will tell the story of how government officials conspired against Salander in order to protect a pathological murderer ?? He wrote steadily for fifty minutes. even if he was beginning to get an idea of what he was up against. But he was bothered by the fact that they had to dress like that in the middle of Stockholm. He packed away his laptop and stood up. 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. She seemed lost in thought.?? ??An attack alarm can??t be cancelled the same way you would cancel the burglar alarm.?? Figuerola said.

and by now rather stout. Then she got confirmation from the S. One was from another member. This also had geographical consequences.I. I??m not above the law. What mattered was her head. Erika shrugged. ??Come in ?? Evert Gullberg. She had brought a book with her.?? ??But how did Bjurman get involved??? ??Palmgren had a stroke in the autumn of 2002.?? ??I consider the source to be totally reliable. You know how the paper is made and I have a while to go on the school bench. If he dug in his heels. Ekstr?m straightened his glasses and stroked his well-groomed goatee. Whoever it was had known that she had hurt her foot. had a certain opinion of Palme???? ??You??re suggesting that somebody forgot to inform the social democratic government??? Edklinth nodded.

and he had to stop after each step to deal with the pain. No problem.?? He stopped and looked at the clock.I. There??s something very sick about this whole story.I. black-and-white photograph on the desk. opened the door to him. That??s not a bad step up from this sorry little rag. Ingvar Carlsson had been Prime Minister at the time. People who have risked their lives for democracy will be in danger of being killed.I. I mourn for my friend. Herr Blomkvist.?? Wadensj?? said. After the tumult of Zalachenko??s murder and Gullberg??s attempted suicide. after all.

They were sitting at a kitchen table in a white farmhouse called Gosseberga.?? ??So what should we do??? Bublanski said. She had a memory of being surprised that he had run away and she did not know why. ??Dr Teleborian has been an external consultant for S.N. He looked startled. When the cleaner had finished in the corridor. Was he exaggerating? Should she dismiss his professional caution? In that case. Hello.?? ??O. She could have told anyone at all. I can??t afford to keep him on as a dead weight all that time. was supposed to have access to everything. Right now we??re examining a large number of old personnel files. I felt like an idiot.?? ??Yes??? said Berger. Herr Zalachenko.

DON??T THINK YOU CAN COME HERE AND THROW YOUR WEIGHT AROUND.?? Gullberg said. M?rtensson had not been reassigned to Counter-Espionage. where Bj?rck draws conclusions and makes recommendations.?? Erlander said. Trinity had a van with thirty kilos of electronic equipment. He poured himself the miniature Glenfiddich. And yet through their assignments they were connected to ?? to what? The conspiracy was intimately linked to the late Alexander Zalachenko. You can say hello to her and ask her whether she accepts me as her lawyer or not. information that absolutely could not be disseminated. and that S.?? he said. If the Section??s archives were opened. You??re a terrific writer. at Sahlgrenska hospital in G?teborg. She had sat through a number of presentations there herself. Then he shrugged and got up.

and then our car in Nacka takes over. Call her. Their successes were never reported. An industrious investigative journalist could get paranoid on less than this.F. That yielded better results.S.?? He grunted.P. At 8. He booked in for the night for 800 kronor and went straight to his room and undressed. and you??re about to expose her chairman. I took certain measures.* ??This print comes from ?hlens & ?kerlunds Publishers and was used in Se magazine in the spring of 1964. her voice scored with scepticism. ??Satisfied??? ??It??s beautiful. she knew.

?? she said. ??But we have other urgent problems. put on coffee. So. of course they did. He might also be a man who worked in maintenance. She spectacularly kicked the shit out of two complete thugs from Svavelsj? M. What I??d like to know is when you mean to publish your article.M. But it was. That was what F?lldin??s administration must have decided too. But when Blomkvist was working on a complicated story ?C Malm had observed the same obsessive and secretive behaviour in the weeks before the Wennerstr?m story broke ?C it became more pronounced. so it was no surprise that she had killed these people. The activity may for all I know be legitimate and sanctioned by the government. He had no idea how long the car had been in his neighbourhood. Wadensj?? stared in disbelief when Gullberg returned at 2. who had picked up Zalachenko??s trail.

then. At that moment. I??d also like to know if you want Giannini to come here to G?teborg. Blomkvist had convinced her that she had nothing to lose. which provided electricity for her bedside lamp and digital clock. He??s kept quiet about that. cut more than 180 jobs since 1980. She??s strange. And then she called to say that Teleborian and somebody called Jonas were meeting at Central Station this afternoon. there was round-the-clock staff close by. Millennium??s financial situation had been healthy at the last annual general meeting. Zalachenko seemed to be grinning beneath his bandages. The man in the blue overalls and the woman with the camera were unknown entities. public reports.I. He previously worked in western Europe for the Soviet military intelligence service G. Then a series of notes claiming that Salander was paranoid and a schizophrenic.

Occasionally he would jot down notes in a pocket diary. When Salander was twelve. Do you get along with her??? ??She??s alright. He would have urgent-sounding conversations in Kurdish or possibly Turkish or Arabic or some other language that Blomkvist did not understand. She lifted her foot and saw to her dismay that a shard of glass had pierced her heel. but I??d rather stay here.?? Blomkvist gave him a wan smile. V. I don??t want information and I??m here in a completely private capacity. He had reserved the room the day before and presented himself as Evert Gullberg.iv Dr Jonasson was woken by Nurse Nicander five minutes before the helicopter was expected to land. without his father there to guide him.?? Figuerola said.?? ??O. And now here we all are. which contradicted all law and justice and which would result in a disastrous scandal if it were ever discovered. ??So what I just handed in is part of a continuing campaign against her.

You don??t have to stress out about it.?? ??Alright.B. that really upset him. You??ve probably met some of them before. One was pronounced D.P. He had started out from Laholm just after 8. Could we isolate them somehow??? ??There??s a fifth officer involved. ??What was that??? ??Oh. She got up. citizen Wasp.M. Lisbeth. It had upset F?lldin that an important Soviet agent had sought asylum in Sweden. sent from centraled@smpost. Either the person who did the falsification was someone in the psychiatric or forensic medicine departments.

He was given a part-time job managing a cleaning crew at Sahlgrenska hospital. ??No.?? ??Why??s that??? ??Circulation has dropped by nearly 150. So she had decided to go along with Blomkvist??s plan. You??re no innocent.00 on Saturday afternoon and a doctor was poking at her.?? ??Better quality maybe. She was incredibly lucky.m. can you handle this??? ??Yes. ??Am I being arrested??? he said.??s staff and finances. As she stood there she asked herself whether the whole thing was not a hideous mistake. He??s had recurring trouble with it over the past few years. Sometimes I start running regularly and lose a couple of kilos. They spent a few minutes making arrangements for the weekend. Salander gratefully accepted two cigarettes.

if I do an examination??? She nodded.I. But that leads us to the second part ?C damage control. but which was invisible. She reached for the telephone to call him.M. She??s hiding something. But the headaches were so overpowering that she could not think straight. Salander lapsed into such inexhaustible silence that it seemed she might never utter a word again.?? ??Right. Right now I just feel like shit. not to discuss the topic in his office without taking special precautions. (2) They have to separate the ??Salander affair?? from the ??Zalachenko affair??. the Prime Minister and a state secretary. I??ve had a whole string of crazy emails accusing me of being all kinds of things ?C and suggesting various perverse things that ought to be done to me. He was pleased with what he had written.30 on Saturday afternoon when he heard the sound of rotating brushes from the low-humming floor polisher and saw that it was the dark-skinned immigrant who walked with a limp.

are vacant and are being to some extent covered by temps. She had gathered that Salander could be moody and withdrawn. Email number two had arrived two days later. but I would tread carefully if I were you. please. She put the folder on the windowsill and stretched out in the bath to ponder the situation. M?rtensson??s apartment was on the top floor of a three-storey building in the suburbs. I??m just so swamped here. You can start as acting editor-in-chief as from today.?? Cortez said. I can honestly say that I would have wanted very much to know him better.?? said Bublanski in a darker tone of voice.?? ??Me too. Well. Do you want to (a) Browse the Forum (b) Send a Message (c) Search the Archive (d) Talk (e) Get Laid?] She clicked on [(d) Talk] and then went to the menu selection [Who??s online?] and got a list with the names Andy.?? ??So ?? what should we do??? Silence settled over the table. ??They??re going their separate ways outside the pub.

But this was not going to be of any help to Salander. but Paulsson ?C whose opinion had little influence on Erlander ?C had warned him that Blomkvist had been babbling on about Russian agents and German hit men ?C hardly routine elements in Swedish police work. The stalker then took the opportunity to get into the house. Jonasson sat in the visitor??s chair. The French secret police had sent frogmen to New Zealand to blow up the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior. and I would like to be included at an early stage.?? ??So you??ve discovered Salander??s hideout??? Modig said. If I understand the matter correctly. Apple and Windows. one more time ?? what part of my instructions did you not understand??? Holm sighed and adopted an exasperated expression. Figuerola changed gear and turned up Vasagatan.?? she said to the P. and a person in that role is under no obligation to report his activities to the government. She says that the murderer was a man in his seventies. he had decided that Millennium Publishing would publish Svensson??s text about sex trafficking. He undressed. Figuerola had given him a number of indisputable indications that something was rotten within S.

?? Blomkvist said.?? ??Well.?? His tone was again hostile. She??s made it plain that she wants you up and over to Bor?s to interview the woman. The sides of the van advertised Lars Faulsson Lock and Key Service ?C with a telephone number. Are you awake??? ??No. If it were a fake. When he returned she had just finished her call.?? ??Harsh words.?? ??It??s a family-owned business. Then she called a taxi and jumped into the shower for a minute.?? Blomkvist said. She did not say a word. I think. Even though by now the statute of limitations has run out on the specific instances of crime. and fumbled for the talk button. In that case I should say how grateful I am that you and your colleagues are willing to facilitate matters for me.

??Dag??s book went to the printer yesterday.M. It??s not something I can influence. I wouldn??t say that. about fifty square metres. If I like it. We can??t put out an A. she was the one who would have to live with herself. I fall asleep like a blown-out candle as soon as I get home.?? ??I see. At this stage of life he did not think it mattered whether he decided to have one glass of whisky or two. The tide of this crap never receded. Svavelsj? M.) So. I??ve noticed that quite a few men get interested.?? ??Yesterday I hadn??t yet thought through the matter. as you all know.