conversation with her. I??m a necessary evil that??s suddenly appeared in your life.?? ??You??re welcome at Milton.

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Then he began to type. ??Is it something personal between the two of you??? ??You could say that. ??It would be a national catastrophe if the whole truth about Zalachenko were to leak out.?? Erika looked up. and he dragged himself out of his sickbed to help you. So how do you intend to proceed??? ??I can??t publish a name without proof. as well as the tool drawer.?? Her lips curled a little. Over the years he had noticed that if he stopped giving instructions or gave Niedermann too much latitude to make his own decisions. Blomkvist could find no such enquiry in Ekstr?m??s email. She saw no-one who showed any interest in her. Millennium??s staff sat in silence. The night nurse had been gone ten minutes. we have good reason to believe that your associate. for example.?? Salander gave Giannini a sharp look. She had been incredibly lucky. hoping to find a personal topic he could discuss with her. You were quite emphatic.?? ??Sure.A. The Security Police had been modernized and the Constitutional Protection Unit in particular had taken on a new. but does this mean that Ekstr?m is working for the Section??? Blomkvist frowned.

T. whose task it was to handle the most sensitive of the sensitive. Andersson had seen the body through a window and called in the alarm. Exactly what??s causing it I can??t say.?? ??Do you have your own bloody intelligence service at Millennium??? she burst out.?? ??That was a smart thing to have done. So you remember what happened. For the first time in modern history.?? The meeting had ended with an agreement that Blomkvist would come to Constitutional Protection the next day to set in train an exchange of information.00. closing the book she had been reading. In 1973 the office building where he had claimed to be working was in fact torn down and replaced by an extension to King??s Cross Station. Berger copied the report. Her door had been open all evening and the nurses had been in to check on her every ten minutes. Even if it was only a ten-minute walk. Figuerola accompanied him up to the offices of the Constitutional Protection Unit. Various assignments had been given to Cortez and Eriksson. and this feels exactly like the time you disappeared to Hedestad two years ago. Come and have breakfast if you can make it. I can??t do that if I have to cut staff. This is pretty fast work. The Zalachenko matter was now constitutionally secured.?? Gullberg had brought the flowers with him mainly as an excuse.

Don??t misunderstand me ?? I??ll tell the truth as I see it in what I publish. established cover companies outside the building in the ??50s and ??60s. ??Your editor-in-chief??s untimely departure will create problems in the newsroom. of course. Ghidi was aware of the guard in the corridor. ??Forget the bodies. he might have only himself to rely on. He fumbled to turn on the bedside lamp and looked at the clock.?? * Linder from Milton Security was dressed in jeans. ??Right.?? ??Why is that??? ??Because of Frisk. If so. names and organizational charts. there??ll still be a scandal. Some are embedded in the brain tissue.00. opening the car door. which corresponded to the word P-I-P-P-I ?C Pippi Bloody Longstocking. He glanced one last time at the door to Salander??s room. That was where he had stayed on previous visits. the porch on the upper floor. We brought in the external help in the form of M?rtensson. I simply have no energy.

Ping. but he could not work out what it was. Which means that she doesn??t intend to. First. Three times Paulsson had asked the urgently occupied medical orderly whether the girl could be arrested on the spot.?? ??Because we??re facing a conflict of loyalties too.00 sharp. of being a Russian agent. I??m a doctor. was founded in the ??70s. The hottest thing we??ve got is that the timber industry in Dalarna is reporting a boom. of course.?? she said without greeting. Finally he had a hole big enough to give access to Salander??s brain.?? ??Intensive care??? Olsson said. which was active in the late ??90s. of course. but this question does not. out every day. ??What do you suggest??? ??If we??re going to run Millennium effectively during the autumn.?? ??So the rumours might be true after all. But now you??re afraid of telling Micke. She was not interested in being editor-in-chief of Millennium and working a minimum of twelve hours a day as well as sacrificing her weekends.

The only thing that had gone right was that he had persuaded them to send a helicopter to take the girl to Sahlgrenska hospital. The P. and if we make a smaller newspaper. The citizens of Hacker Republic did not generally spread computer viruses. He walked to Dressman on Kungsgatan and bought a shirt and a change of underwear. Greeks. She knew. The ball was in motion.?? ??The two have nothing to do with each other. This was not very informative. I know. And we did a thorough investigation of Bj?rck??s place. She reached for a notebook. We have been caught napping. Sonny Nieminen. That??s where I met him. The story was under control. In other words. but what I have to tell you is very important. But it definitely does mean that some individuals within S. Most often he made the right decision. ??Was it S?po that called you??? ??That??s what I told you. Blomkvist shook his head.

Linder told her that she did not hold with psychological mumbo-jumbo.?? ??That is unforgivably incompetent. Understood??? Holm threw up his hands in a gesture that indicated he considered Berger??s accusations to be absurd. Until she met her in person.?? ??We??ll have to ask the head of the legal department to take a look at this and determine exactly what is formally correct. She made a note of every name and every incident in the report that had to be verified. Unfortunately I won??t now be able to discharge you for at least two more weeks. for example. Finally Blomkvist read what Olsson had produced about Dr Anders Jonasson. she had had it up to here with other work.?? She braked at the Klaraberg viaduct and considered the options. She had heard the man explain to a nurse right outside her door that he had to see Herr Karl Axel Bodin on an urgent matter. I??ll put on some coffee???? ??No.47. 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.?? ??The news editor is going to have something to say???? ??Don??t worry about Holm. It would be outside all our formal agreements. Gullberg was content to accept this situation. It took her about a minute to gain control over her body.00 on Tuesday night.?? ??Where??? ??Outside Seglora. When they were settled in her new Saab 9-5. If this were a regular police investigation of an ordinary crime.

The secret we both protected during my administration is now the subject of some very serious questions. because pain flew through her left shoulder. Swedish democracy is based on a single premise: the Right to Free Speech (R. She said that she didn??t. Sorry. letter by letter. On the other hand. which means the transmitter substance in his nerve synapses doesn??t function. You were the one who met them. If you can??t manage a simple job like that then you might as well sit here with your thumb up your backside until the constitutional committee comes knocking on your door. gained access. ??Can I buy you breakfast??? ??Can one get pancakes and jam anywhere round here??? ??Waffles.?? she said at last.?? ??I??m driving. and there??s been such turmoil here that I buried it. but that did not mean that he might not be living with someone. Edklinth had probably meant for her to serve the coffee. Blomkvist will have given his sister a copy. and Zalachenko. How do you feel it??s going??? I have to discuss Vitavara with him. And the prosecutor will soon be having you transferred to a prison in Stockholm to await trial in six weeks. but the surplus in the budget was primarily made up of the profits from Blomkvist??s book about the Wennerstr?m affair. ??Someone might see us together and start to wonder.

We??ll do everything in our power to assist you with a lawyer and so on ?? but we need your cooperation. ??Zala is a Russian hit man ?C apparently without a grain of conscience ?C who defected in the ??70s.??. she said. but Paulsson was not interested. the houses are positioned with their gables facing each other. It was a delicate task requiring great wisdom and judicial restraint. The board approved every measure I proposed.F. But he did not have access to her room and had never even seen her. and this time in front of Frisk.?? ??Let him interrogate me.?? ??I didn??t mean it that way. She might develop epilepsy. ??What are you working on at the moment. Can you manage that??? Salander waited patiently for almost a minute before Annika nodded. of course. you and my people. you??ll have to apply to Prosecutor Jervas here in G?teborg.00. Blomkvist said hello to Modig. She made coffee and poured it into a thermos and then made sandwiches. Blomkvist was irresponsible and kept vanishing on another of his mysterious trips.

Edklinth??s palms were sweating when he put down the telephone. she looked to see whether there was a film on T. I have to tell you. Then there was the incident in the tunnelbana. At that time he was regarded as ??up and coming?? in criminal circles and had been questioned as a suspect in three other burglaries. and while he??s gone.?? ??I??m not trying to evade your question.?? Berger drove to the office on Saturday morning still feeling queasy. who??s in the neighbouring rooms. V. ??Cough. The face was grotesquely swollen.32. Let??s say the price curve for hamburgers had been the same since the ??70s ?C so a Big Mac would cost about 150 kronor or more. You don??t have to stress out about it. Salander laughed aloud for the first time in weeks.?? Malm was serving up freshly made waffles with cloudberry jam and coffee. I always thought I wanted to be a doctor. but from a number of sources Cortez had a fairly clear picture of the events of the night before. ??I??ll make sure you get some painkillers in a minute. only vice versa. who was snoring peacefully. Lisbeth Salander is not psychotic.

She had some general conversations with Salander and hinted at the outline of the strategy that she and Blomkvist had planned. She looked at her husband and her friend. he flipped open his mobile and saw that he had twenty unread messages. Not at mine. Jonasson sat for a while. to invite himself for Sunday lunch. That bastard Zalachenko. I don??t like this business with Ekstr?m and Faste and a new trial. He did not know whom he could trust. on the steep slope down towards Pryssgr?nd. Henry shoots from the hip a little too often. not in the least. He picked up the telephone and called Martina Karlgren. 2. The constitution had been established by the parliament. It was three storeys to the ground. And for it to be worth the cost. She was too easily noticeable. at 8. could blithely reveal her most intimate secrets to a bunch of completely unknown freaks on the Internet.M. was the first indication that Zalachenko??s predicament had come to the attention of the Section. She asked him to cancel a meeting she had arranged with the culture editor.

and I don??t know of a better person to ask.30. I have to admit that in all my years on the force I??ve never seen anything like it.?? Edklinth said. Clinton had gone into business as a management consultant. and clamps which he attached to her nipples. Criminal Inspector Marcus Erlander from the Violent Crimes Division of the G?teborg police arrived in Gosseberga and took over the investigation from the overburdened Paulsson. while Berger and assistant editor Peter Fredriksson met the sports editors so that she could get to know her colleagues and find out how they worked.?? ??That??s O. Only when that has happened can she begin to confront her legal problems. ??Pull yourself together. ??Hello. and was assistant chief before that.?? ??Let him interrogate me. He assumed it was Wadensj?? who was responsible for the Chagall and Mondrian reproductions.?? ??I see. forty-seven. I have special knowledge of the subject that no-one else at S.?? said Holmberg. He was there without warning. Nor did they need much convincing to carry out particular campaigns if the situation warranted.?? ??Well. and you??re not telling me anything.

It??s been planned for a long time.S.?? ??Good God. Since she had access to Teleborian??s P. ??Erika ???? ??Mikael. ??Do as I say and the Section might survive. He knew that the helicopter was coming in in the nick of time. Did you hear what happened at Sahlgrenska??? ??You could say so. and he has backing from higher up in the bureaucracy.?? Modig sighed. could wander into a hospital with a bunch of flowers in one hand and a pistol in the other. She disconnected and looked up at the ceiling. Blomkvist had his arm around her shoulders. But the actual cause of her injuries could not be established. of that she was perfectly aware. But this letter tells you to use your own good judgement. ??What are you working on at the moment.?? ??Go on.?? ??I get it.?? ??No. If she did not find anything of interest in that group. He noticed the grey Volvo at once. This meant that Holm was juggling a colossal number of tasks every day.

A prosecutor decided not to take the case any further.?? Berger barely looked up from her position by the window. He was like everyone else. studied to become a police officer at twenty.?? Sandberg said suddenly. but he could get out of his bed and begin to make himself mobile. There aren??t many people who are as stubborn as Mikael about not being available when you need him. Lundin had been shot in the foot and then the police showed up. when Paolo Roberto had fought his boxing match with Niedermann in the warehouse there. 16.D.?? Erlander said. Salander had already discussed all of this with Giannini. said. She had given up classic gymnastics.?? He stood up and gave her a kiss on the cheek. Paulsson had then turned his attention to the wounded man in the woodshed.?? Salander thought for a while. He has security clearance and you can discuss classified information with him in general terms. it??s the truth. and underwear. and force the board to dismiss Borgsj?. but he has massive brain damage.

with mud. Are you with me? All of this she had already worked out for herself. The tide of this crap never receded. Figuerola was of the view that the chief of Secretariat at least must have been calling the shots when M?rtensson in Personal Protection was supposedly moved to Counter-Espionage. He looked around the corridor and saw that he was being watched by nurses. That was when he started making calls and decided it was time to go to Stockholm. ??This is probably the craziest thing I??ve ever been involved with. She did not advise S?po of this decision.?? ??That??s what it was always about.?? ??That??s not what I asked. we did an extensive investigation of your background.. it would soak up all of Millennium??s time. Modig and Andersson had already arrived.v Figuerola woke at 6. She had done her best to find a formula for working with him. ??Bj?rck.. Malin is tough.G. so he pushed the sushi aside. She happened to identify him and track him down to Gosseberga. sitting on the bed.

Used a hotmail account.O. Be there in five minutes. Who did you hand everything over to??? ??How do you mean??? ??When F?lldin??s term came to an end. Then they go back to their regular jobs in S. S.?? ??Not because of me. ??Exactly. He??s kept quiet about that. He was Prime Minister at the time.I. She did not need anyone to tell her that.?? ??Could he have recognized you from the papers? You??ve had a lot of publicity over several widely reported cases. or the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Where exactly this boundary was seemed to vary from one person to another. plus eight apartments in a small building in the courtyard. ??Mikael isn??t here today. It??s your job to take care of Lisbeth??s physical and mental health.?? Jonasson sat for a while. ??The killing of the police officer is the main thing right now. She gave him a quick look and turned on to Grev Turegatan.G.?? There was impatient muttering around the table.

Even so. And when he saw the car again the next morning he was not surprised. If these very unpleasant pranks continue we will have to consider reporting them to the police. In other words. and ?? it just didn??t ever seem like the right time or place. On the other hand.?? ??Good enough. or the advertising manager Magnusson. We can imagine two alternatives.B.P. He pretended to be asleep.?? He turned on his heel and left the glass cage. ??I??m sorry for chasing you down. then the chief of Secretariat must have approved the decision. Blomkvist had set June 20 as his deadline for going to press.m. We??ll let it stand the way you??ve decided. this is going to be tough. You??ll have to prepare him for the fact that probably I won??t be in a position to make a decision in the coming week. But what does a twenty-year-old do who wants to move out of the family home? They can??t afford to. ??I??m Karl Axel Bodin now. The citizens of Hacker Republic did not generally spread computer viruses.

?? ??Then who was the murderer??? a reporter from Dagens Eko shouted. this is Jonas Sandberg.?? ??And the woman ?? who??s she??? ??Sonja Modig. It was nothing to him if people wanted to dress up in costume. they don??t have the evidence.?? ??I see.?? ??I don??t even know which colleague you??re talking about. Blomkvist used his second mobile when he punched in Berger??s number at S. Her left shoulder stabbed like a knife if she moved carelessly or tried to shift her weight. She had read Blomkvist??s articles and brooded over what he had to say.?? she said.?? Berger put her hand over the mouthpiece. ??So. Her expression did not change.?? ??I get it. He would never surrender voluntarily. black-and-white photograph on the desk. Millennium. Sometimes I start running regularly and lose a couple of kilos. She did not make a single revision to the text she had written. the operations chief of the Section Hans von Rottinger.. and I have no intention of revealing its whereabouts.

She outlined the Poison Pen situation. and parliament??s security detail had been informed.?? Wadensj?? said. What time??? ??2. Consequently Blomkvist had no clue whether Salander had revealed that her previous guardian had raped her. while Berger and assistant editor Peter Fredriksson met the sports editors so that she could get to know her colleagues and find out how they worked. In 1997 he was no longer on the official roster of the external service.C.A. Then he placed his hands gently around her neck and turned her head back and forth and to the sides a few times. But this trial is going to be about entirely different things. she would have to resign. We just don??t have the editorial capacity for what we??re trying to do. ??Clinton first??? ??If he??s still alive.?? Eriksson did not answer the telephone. took out a notebook. Half were graphic artists and so on.?? said the detective responsible for Stallarholmen on behalf of the S?dert?lje police. It sounds a little cryptic. It almost certainly won??t be published before the trial. Moved back to his home town of Laholm in 1994.?? ??That??s no excuse. of course.

He was as bewildered as Erlander on that score. in spite of her unusual name. Benny was nowhere to be seen. thrown her on to her stomach on the bed. and the first thing he needed to do that morning was call him and tell him to get down there as swiftly as he could. But Magge is in deep shit.?? ??Good.?? ??Let??s hear it. Which means that Holm and the legal editor are up in arms.?? ??I??m jumping ahead and anticipating the final assessment. And I??m too tired to drive home. ??I have no idea. and for the aggravated kidnapping and assault of the dental nurse Anita Kaspersson. And I??ve recovered nicely. He had a limp. He could not move it even a millimetre.?? ??That sounds good. When she returned to her station. It??s not over. since he had faithfully voted for the moderates in one election after another. But the thing is.?? ??He??s getting squeezed from all sides. Then she opened a notebook and took a pen from her jacket pocket.

S.?? ??If anything happens. Jonasson did not hesitate to classify Salander??s condition as critical. That was not going to be enough. ??Hello there. Ask if I can visit him at home.?? ??No. On the other hand.?? ??An excellent career advancement. I do. She free-associated. The nurse gave her a beaker with a straw to drink water through. that is.?? Wadensj?? was almost beside himself.K. he had openly discussed the matter with County Governor Lassinanti on a visit to Norrbotten. and transferred by way of the assistant head of Secretariat to the Section. ??If any of you need a little personal time. That??s a normal phenomenon among people who do extreme training. She would have to spend what was left of the money on a call to Plague.?? ??It??s a small monitor. He would have urgent-sounding conversations in Kurdish or possibly Turkish or Arabic or some other language that Blomkvist did not understand. Blomkvist lit a cigarette and stood by the window looking out towards Djurg?rden.

well. he could never rid himself of the feeling that he was looking at an advertisement for something. That??s where I met him. the A. personnel department that he was employed there. Suddenly he found it difficult to sleep. It was Blomkvist who found Svensson and his girlfriend??s bodies. ??Vitavara Inc. since Billing took an unpleasant tone with most of the people to whom he wrote messages ?C reporters. Blomkvist saw that Edklinth was also smiling to himself. He had then returned to his home town of Laholm and done some work from there. even if Skanska Construction opens an office in London and stuff like that. ??My last editorial.?? Gullberg put his briefcase on to his lap. That was one thing. 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.?? Jonasson laughed. We??ll have a complete security plan ready in a few days which will include a personal attack alarm. ??Turn the print over. ??I have today off. ??We put the neck brace on for a reason ?C you have to keep your head still for the healing process to get started. I??ve noticed that quite a few men get interested. or whether this would go on being the preserve of the Immigration Division.

She needed a holiday.?? ??Today??s task is to write an editorial on the demonstrations. It was David Rosin from Milton Security. Once he had understood how the telephone network functioned and realized how hopelessly antiquated it was. Get out of here. He was standing about ten metres behind her. She stood up. Officially moved to a place where he doesn??t exist. First of all.?? ??This is serious.?? ??So what??s going to happen to him??? ??I arrested him for violation of the prostitution laws. She had short. She bent down and bit him on the ear. You??ll have to send the material to a hotmail address. But what was going to happen now? Erika had always been a crucial part of Millennium. she was tending towards the theory that stability was overrated. She had decided to stay in G?teborg at 4. he had ?C literally ?C rootled around in her brain. even though this time there was no strap holding her down. He was a hit man for Russian military intelligence. Since there isn??t any real competition there. In March 1989. P.

The hopes for a breakthrough.?? Bublanski said. Serial number unknown. Naturally I??d want to assist my colleagues in the police force. Giannini took the bus to Linn??gatan and spent the next hour in a Greek restaurant. Inspector Paulsson had started out with a relatively manageable situation: now he had a murdered policeman and an armed killer on the run. Blomkvist was irresponsible and kept vanishing on another of his mysterious trips.P. as like as not. Do you understand what I mean? She opened the archive in [Idiotic_Table].?? ??I see. we also want you to know what to do in the ten minutes before the car arrives from Fisks?tra. then you??ll have to call Milton??s alarm centre immediately to cancel the emergency vehicle.A. He had thought about asking Cortez or someone else to rent a car for him.?? ??If you had been the prosecutor. The nurse was sitting in an office next to the conference room.S. Jerker. I slept here alone last night. eventually gave up trying to have a conversation with her. I??m a necessary evil that??s suddenly appeared in your life.?? ??You??re welcome at Milton.