can assume they??re fairly tight-knit.?? Erlander and Modig both looked at their wristwatches. The girl looked terrible.

?? Blomkvist found Berger sound asleep on the sofa-bed in her office
?? Blomkvist found Berger sound asleep on the sofa-bed in her office. He works for Prosecutor Ekstr?m. It would take a very few seconds to stretch out her arm and break off the rim of the glass with a firm rap against the hard edge of the table.32. who has worked in S?po for many years. Lundin had somehow always managed to keep Nieminen in line. Berger looked at her watch. ??You know more than you ought to.M. ??Last night he also murdered a police officer from Trollh?ttan. ??The information he contributed was supplied. then you??ll be my sources ?C with all the enduring anonymity that implies.B. Malin is tough. Conscientious and a teetotaller. Teleborian had indeed had dealings with S. He felt as soon as he lay down that for the first time in weeks he could relax and sleep peacefully. He assumed it was Wadensj?? who was responsible for the Chagall and Mondrian reproductions. if I understood correctly ?C is to clean corridor 11C. 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. necessary prologue to long-term work.

I wish we had the leisure to stay in touch with faithful old colleagues. Blomkvist ordered couscous and a beer.?? she said. I assume that you would have insisted on both social and psychiatric investigations.000 Swedish citizens who were held to harbour undesirable political sympathies. They had eaten well and talked politely about nothing in particular. ??My name is Jonas Sandberg. But use your judgement.22. and deepened the crisis we now find ourselves in.?? ??Listen.?? ??True enough. ??Not quite yet. much of it dealt with Salander??s mental state.?? Bublanski weighed the suggestion. I??ll ask your advice and I??ll depend on your skill and experience.?? he said. who described her as emotional.?? ??Let??s hear it. She was amazed to be still alive. Figuerola nodded and started the engine.

he was a good person. Prosecutor Ekstr?m took stock of his visitor.?? ??I know.?? ??Indeed. Then an animated door opened and a Lara Croft-like figure stepped out. They were just passing Sergels Torg in the city centre. I have no recollection of any of that. This was all conceivable in practice. to a certain extent. ??There was one thing that struck me. Finally he concluded that Armansky was right. that there was no-one with much experience in government. locksmith Teleborian had been hired by S. She limped back to the bedroom and opened the bottom drawer of the chest by her bed.?? ??It??s really quite simple. one. ??Mikael isn??t here today. ??You wrote down my car registration when I was parked on the hill outside your building. with his unfinished editorial to the left and a frieze of photographs along the bottom edge. and the defective alarm from N. I could break in by using the fire escape at the back of the house and entering through the roof hatch leading to the attic.

Could we meet? Erika And then two emails on the following days: Dearest. then you??ll be my sources ?C with all the enduring anonymity that implies. It would be as it was in the ??80s.?? said Holmberg. since Billing took an unpleasant tone with most of the people to whom he wrote messages ?C reporters.N. Mikael Blomkvist. Then he left her in peace and sat down to watch a repeat of C.?? ??I??m sorry.?? ??And this suggestion is not in the original report.?? ??I understand. ?C and he did not have the requisite experience or skills. He opened a new Word document.?? Blomkvist said. ??Now we know.?? Wadensj?? said. In other words. That??s just about the riskiest thing we could do. They were chiefly concerned with the anarchists and the neo-Nazis: the anarchists because they persisted in practising civil disobedience; the neo-Nazis because they were Nazis and so by definition the enemies of democracy.?? Blomkvist took the tunnelbana to Medborgarplatsen and walked to Allhelgonagatan.?? ??I just got an email from that address.

?? He fixed his gaze on Wadensj??.?? They walked together through Kronoberg park towards Fridhemsplan. after all. ??There??s an American professor from Boston called Frank Ellis. In terms of espionage it was a sad chapter in their history.?? ??Could I read the original??? ??Certainly you can. He reached for his prosthesis stored in the cabinet next to his bed and attached it to the stump of his leg. You??re my best friend. even if the person in question is so stupid that he sends it from his home computer. ??How??s the headache??? ??I feel it now and then.?? ??It??s complicated. but she has obvious delusions with distinct paranoid schizophrenic characteristics. I have the power to extend it and even make it a full-time position.?? ??How much would it take for you to come to S. After a while he took out a leather-bound notebook and made some notes. Mikael. But what does a twenty-year-old do who wants to move out of the family home? They can??t afford to. nothing yet. but now it was time to take care of the matter.?? Ghidi poured Turkish coffee. ??Forceps.

?? Berger sighed. But not the prosecutor who brought the charges against her. He enjoys indulging in intrigue and playing people against each other. It??s all about patching up things. But before we can do that. or die. After Queen Myrina finally fell in battle. ??I??m in.?? Wadensj?? said. ??I have to call for support. said. Call her. Mercifully someone had left a full bottle of mineral water on the conference table. He stood for a moment in the sea of travellers. ??It feels as though I??m already operating at half speed. are laws. If he hasn??t managed it by then. you and my people. keeping his weight on his uninjured leg before trying to stand on the other. ??What??s happened??? he said. brought up during an afternoon meeting.

?? Salander felt an icy chill run down her spine. ??We have to be of one mind. ??What the hell is this. She could not imagine how he could finish in time.?? ??But he did drive to Stockholm and to Svavelsj?. We live in a democracy and naturally we cannot influence what is written in the press. He put on his sports jacket and went downstairs. But. Salander??s story was pretty much done. ??The information he contributed was supplied. Blomkvist ordered couscous and a beer. he could get himself into trouble if he closes the preliminary investigation. Well.?? ??She reads them with obvious interest. which consisted solely of numbers. 1966). and the press would have uncovered the Salander affair several years earlier. This was a threat that made an impression on F?lldin. ??We made it through the first quarter of this year thanks to a marginal rise in advertising sales and the fact that two senior. He would function as a contact person in matters relating to the defector. And he was inflexible.

He had found a roll of duct tape and this he had used to close the wounds.?? ??I know. Malin. jumped on the Katarina lift up to Mosebacke and took a circuitous route to Fiskargatan 9. After his suicide attempt he sustained such severe brain damage that he is to all intents and purposes a vegetable. It had always been this way on his other visits to Black/White Publishing. ??This morning S?po got calls from several newspapers who had received letters from Gullberg.?? ??A sort of secret spy police??? ??There are in fact parallels overseas. A man in advanced old age. For several minutes she did not dare to approach the light.?? ??Tell me.?? ??We??ll have to ask the head of the legal department to take a look at this and determine exactly what is formally correct.?? ??That??s correct. She worked until 4. We have to find allies within the bureaucracy if this is not going to end in calamity. I??m not holding back anything that could be useful to your investigation of the Section or throw light on the various crimes that have been committed. a member of the police.iv ?C Tuesday. Blomkvist??s problem was that the account still had gaping holes in it. ??Lisbeth Salander was shot in the head and was very seriously injured.K.

He inserted an opinion into the headline in the news section. She looked in astonishment at the icon bar. ??I??d like permission to go through the personnel files from the ??50s. If she did not find anything of interest in that group.?? ??I??m on her side. to quote you ?? I honestly don??t know how I should be managing this. of course.?? ??Can he handle it??? ??He??s no idiot. Blomkvist??s problem was that the account still had gaping holes in it. You can give him what you??ve found. so you have no way of backing up your claims. and vigorous. The stalker then took the opportunity to get into the house.00 in the evening when Figuerola held the car door open for Blomkvist. ??I beg your pardon??? ??You may be employed by S.?? ??Right. ??Probably to see me dead. Lisbeth??s lawyer ?C you??ve met her I think ?C is my sister. But she had not said anything about why she had run her father to ground. pinged.P.

?? ??You??re from Uppsala. Whatever happened. Retired in 1991. who was sleeping peacefully and probably would not be awake before 8. I??ll know exactly what you talked about less than an hour after I get to my office in Stockholm. The customer??s going to have to pay. She risks being charged with grievous bodily harm or attempted murder. But regrettable as it was. originally from Ume? in northern Sweden. who works there. Gullberg allowed himself to agree to this. and that means you??ll once again be a pawn in their game. or the Section will cease to exist a few weeks from now. ??Kurdo Baksi sends his greetings. and Figuerola was the head of a department of five officers working on political crimes. Between 1991 and 1996 he worked for the Stockholm police. ??That??s right.?? ??Oh yes??? ??And then I want to go home and go to bed with my husband. Then the manhunt would at least ease up a bit. and there were incidents of violence and trouble with bouncers and others. He pulled open the door and went into the corridor.

So let??s move on. He tried to murder Lisbeth. Talk with doctors. but the percentage was negligible. just as when we were editing Dag??s book. it??s the end of the Section. & E. ??You spend a couple of hours a week at the gym. Whore. They conferred briefly. It??s a huge opportunity for you.O. Nevertheless. just as when we were editing Dag??s book. But can anyone explain to me what actually happened??? ??As far as we can tell. She was careful to express herself precisely. Clinton would take care of Giannini. and clocked in at police headquarters at 8. She only got his voicemail. is guilty of these crimes. ??Her father??s daughter.

and there may soon come a time when S. But this is going to take some legwork. other people can.?? ??I read the article. ??Never seen them before. She had experienced the same thing at St Stefan??s. He saw that he had missed six calls in the past twenty-four hours: three from Cortez. He had only the vaguest notion of how S?po was organized. we??ll talk it through. that he had broken off his trip as soon as he knew that one of his police officers had been murdered. An awkward situation. we might save ourselves a lot of time. has anyone received any more weird emails??? ??Not that I??ve heard. Then I got an article late in the evening. This is probably the first and only time in my professional career that I will reveal the contents of an unpublished story to a police officer. He sent over a U.?? Erlander sighed.B.

that will put the matter in a rather different light.?? ??Sure.?? He nodded curtly once before he went out and locked the door. what tone of voice and frequency range it had. A really good story. She could see a large part of the editorial office with the news desk in the centre.?? ??It??s not our case any more. on what??s going on. ??A source within the investigation claims that Lisbeth is non compos mentis. Plague was an intelligent and socially gifted citizen. which meant that some operator would go in manually and listen to the conversation to decide whether it was of interest or not.?? ??And in all likelihood she??ll claim self-defence. He was. Jan Bublanski was the leader of the investigation concerning Ronald Niedermann.S. July 13.G.?? ??But there??s another gap I don??t really understand.

Then he came back regularly.?? ??Mostly to do with women who are threatened??? ??I work with all kinds of things.?? ??I see what you mean when you say I might land in it up to my neck. dates.?? Modig was surprised that Erlander had acquiesced to Zalachenko??s wish to be called Bodin. Trinity wrote. A large portion of these funds were used for investments in I. a passport. Let??s meet tonight at 9.?? It was several seconds before he could absorb the whole impact of the news. I??m not going to quote you or mention you even in anything I write. so I??ll stay out of it. I didn??t want it to.?? Figuerola understood that Blomkvist was bluffing. which prompted the newspaper to speculate about her mental state. Big and nasty enemies.?? ??I think you have to do a bit more physio on your shoulder muscles. Prostitutes.

With such cretinous leadership it was no wonder that scandals occurred. He did not really need permission to publish the book in Svensson??s name. She saw that it was 5. ??Good. and the limits to the R.M. ??No. talking on the telephone. and he began to tell F?lldin about the preliminary investigation in which he had been involved for the past few months. ??Now we just have to decide how we??re going to handle it.30 that evening.00. Born in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. Each mobile has its own unique signature ?C a fingerprint ?C in the form of the telephone number.S. drumming her fingertips in annoyance. ??Gullberg is out of his mind. Then her daughter was locked up in a mental hospital on the basis of a fabricated diagnosis.

??Exactly. He would have urgent-sounding conversations in Kurdish or possibly Turkish or Arabic or some other language that Blomkvist did not understand. sat down opposite Berger. There was still much research to be done. whose salary was paid from a fund that had been mysteriously established to provide Palmgren with the best possible care. Then Falun waited on the landing as Sandberg went in.?? ??O. & E. The old bastard had a pistol too. ??So. yes. ??The subject fascinates me.?? ??All I ask is that you hear me out. academics. They were officers used to investigating real crimes.??? ??Are you bullshitting me??? Ellis had lived in Sweden for many years and was fluent in Swedish ?C albeit with an American accent ?C but when Jonasson spoke to him in Swedish. If there was one thing Jonasson felt sure about her. shave a job here and a job there.

?? ??Did you make eye contact??? ??No. but they never argued either. could focus on a specific area to separate out and monitor mobile calls. The board especially.M. So you??ll have to be locked up again.?? Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor. At present he??s being sought only for the murder of Officer Gunnar Ingemarsson.?? he explained. I??d have sounded the alarm. If such a keyword cropped up. It made you so nervous that you knew you had to take the matter further. The document was stamped top secret and filed in the special protocol of S. but she had worked alongside Berger balancing the monthly books.?? She smiled sweetly.?? ??I understand.K. ??But not me.

even though he is a journalist.?? Berger explained what had happened and asked whether Milton Security could take over the contract from Nacka Integrated Protection. He himself had grown up in H?lledal outside Ramvik. Edklinth grimaced. Careerist. Bublanski still had the report. he was a good person. But Ekstr?m??s the boss. He would hate to be dragged into any sort of scandal. I??ve never heard mention of this ?? what you call the Zalachenko club. I??m Annika Giannini. since 1970. She remembered the terrible hatred she had felt. She tried to call Greger. One of the first things Blomkvist did when he realized that his mobile was bugged was to send Cortez out to buy some used handsets.?? ??And how are we supposed to give her the proper care here if we can??t have access to her records? The medical responsibility for her right now is ours. Thereafter Gullberg acted only as an adviser in especially sensitive matters. Two of the people living in the building have police records.

B. we have good reason to believe that your associate. No matter how hard Blomkvist tried. He put on his sports jacket and went downstairs. ??The chief of Secretariat. but saw no-one who seemed to be paying him any attention. But it??s very simple to fake an apparently legitimate address. ??He was arrested for violation of the prostitution laws last Friday. ??That sounds good.?? she said. which Bj?rck and Teleborian drafted together. we are not in agreement.?? she said. But that sort of temporary reassignment was not unusual ?C covering a shortage of personnel here or there in an emergency situation. She jumped out of bed so fast that she felt a pain in her injured hip. We??ll hold back on charging him with the murders of the three individuals we dug up on the property.K. ??I owe you one.

??Zalachenko was shot dead at 1. Berger??s muscles ached as though she had just run the Stockholm marathon.?? Berger put down her fork and stared at him. and Zalachenko. the police are necessary.?? ??Good enough. but he??s putting in an equal amount of time on your story. he needs a new kidney and spends a lot of his time in dialysis or some other treatment.A. Open up S. Normally I??m involved in civil cases in which I represent victims of rape or domestic violence.v Three days after Berger started as acting editor-in-chief of S. ??There are several parts to this problem. Poison.M. Inspector Bublanski.?? ??Inside S?po??? Blomkvist said with undisguised scepticism. I??ve thought about it.

30 p. a preliminary investigation is under way. Pain stabbed through her shoulder. The Ring area was almost deserted. Thanks for coming. Plague had obviously made it simple for himself by copying over Ekstr?m??s entire hard drive.?? She saw that Borgsj? had opened his mouth as if to say something himself. and nothing was touched or moved ?C except for one thing. could blithely reveal her most intimate secrets to a bunch of completely unknown freaks on the Internet. You shouldn??t worry your pretty head over complex matters. you??re receiving this information in accordance with your agreement with Edklinth.?? ??So soon??? He nodded.?? the assistant chief of the Violent Crimes Division concluded. Events had been rapid and unpredictable.?? There was a knock at the door. We can assume they??re fairly tight-knit.?? Erlander and Modig both looked at their wristwatches. The girl looked terrible.