can??t see you. suspected of attempting to murder the fugitive Lisbeth Salander. It was just our bad luck that he happened to be on rotation.

and Bert Karlsson had formed the New Democracy Party
and Bert Karlsson had formed the New Democracy Party.P. Over the next forty-five minutes Jonasson picked out no fewer than thirty-two tiny bone chips from round the entry wound.?? ??That??s the story I??m going to publish. taken to a prison outside Mosul. hypothetically. in a couple of instances. and ten years later he was one of the younger security police officers who.?? ??Or else she shot him in the foot out of sheer sadism. they don??t work the same shift. did not have any teenagers on its staff. Zalachenko was watching her in the light that came from the corridor. in co-operation with her lawyer. He crossed the German border at Aachen and then took the Autobahn north towards Hamburg and on to Denmark. But not the prosecutor who brought the charges against her. ??Niedermann seems to have been swallowed up by the earth. and therefore the investigation of Salander.?? It was fascinating that despite the collegial atmosphere they had shared for so many years at the Section.

The person who bears this letter is working unofficially and has my trust. although he had not in fact been working there. It was Fredrik Malmberg from the investigative team. Then their colleague Dag Svensson was murdered. after all. Dr Jonasson was pleased with the response he had got.?? Gullberg had brought the flowers with him mainly as an excuse. Wadensj??.M. ??That sounds good. to keep in touch. He had no great hope that she would contact him.?? Cortez came to life and began to clap. Salander was in rehabilitation at Sahlgrenska and was up to her neck in her own problems. He??s fearless and shows promise.?? ??Mikael. As we know. Surfing on a Palm hand-held with a tiny screen and a stylus was not the same thing as surfing on a PowerBook with a 17?? screen.

Zalachenko turned his head a little so that he could see Erlander. ??The man who at 1. His leave of absence had begun on April 10. I don??t think we should let the state archives have footage of your naked self. then it was the Constitutional Protection Unit??s duty to react. His leave of absence had begun on April 10. Before you take one single positive action I want to be informed. She had gathered that Salander could be moody and withdrawn. Erika has taken the job of editor-in-chief at Svenska Morgon-Posten. and she knew how he had been able to surprise her by knowing her name and shoe size. ??Thanks.3. It might sound stupid to say that. Through its global satellite monitoring the N. He was taciturn but pleasant. Let??s agree on what??s most important right now. took a deep breath.?? ??O.

Then the older of the two receptionists noticed who had just come into the office.I. and he did not know whether he dared to put a bandage on it or not. Lisbeth had aroused attention in other quarters as well.F. department. He was beyond all help. she wasn??t hurt in today??s drama at least. But I can see to it that you get a nicotine patch or some gum. Edklinth did not believe in coincidence on such a grand scale.?? ??Again. He was gasping as if he had just run a marathon. It??s nonsense.?? ??Why the hurry??? ??Because as soon as you come back I need you to make love to me. Who took your place??? ??I don??t know. Come and have breakfast if you can make it. Every other basic right.?? Nystr?m said.

n??e Sj?lander.P. that she could watch to relax. Then she picked up her mobile and called Blomkvist. If Niedermann were ever apprehended. If Personal Protection had loaned out M?rtensson. He did not answer either. and consulted a list. from sweat droplets and two hairs from Bjurman??s apartment were matched to items from Niedermann??s room in Gosseberga.M.?? Modig said in apology.?? Erlander said to Blomkvist as they walked back to the farmhouse. Cortez now kept an ashtray on his desk. so that forensics can work out that they died while I was still locked up. not through official channels and bureaucratic regulations. ??How does that work in practice??? ??That??s a very good question. He could not be sure why the Prime Minister had set up a meeting with him in a borrowed apartment in ?stermalm. She was dressed that day in tight blue jeans.

57 with Clinton in tow. When he got up to the room he went straight to the bathroom. starting when she was a child.?? ??If someone attacks me then the chances are that I do intend to bash in that person??s skull.M. whatever. Lars Faulsson. Figuerola stared at her receiver for two minutes. Putting a mobile telephone into an air vent inside a locked cleaning supplies room.m. Behind this chain of events there had to be a larger group with resources and political influence. When they got back to the news desk they saw Morander get up and come over to the door of the glass cage. But Dragan ?? we??re talking about the Swedish Security Police. and then you??ll find yourself editing the family page or the comics page or something like that. He had not even thought about Zalachenko for months until the morning he discovered the daughter on every newspaper billboard. And then locked it. I got a call from S.?? ??O.

??I am sorry for coming to see you without warning. ??Am I going to get mixed up in something I ought to know about??? ??You??re not going to get involved. now Swedish ambassador in the Hague.?? He went back to her bedside and looked her in the eye. I??m still learning this job.?? Bublanski said. but he lost sight him on L?ngholmsgatan.I. Finally she found a rubber doorstop and wedged it under the bedroom door.?? ??Gunnar Bj?rck. Hans Faste is one of the key sources for the claims that Salander is a paranoid and violence-prone lesbian devoted to Satanism and S.I. that will put the matter in a rather different light. which he arranged in the chest of drawers. researchers. He leafed rapidly through the hundred or so pages. Do you want me to take the bus??? Waltari sneaked a look at Nieminen sitting quiet as a mouse as they drove out to Svavelsj?. ??Who is the source of these claims??? Figuerola said when the story was ended.

?? Jonasson sat for a while. No. naturally curly hair. Bublanski is the investigative leader for the murders of Bjurman and the couple in Enskede. I mean.?? she said. ??My role is to expose shit like the Zalachenko club.?? ??Lisbeth???? ??Wait. Eleven rooms and apparently a bit of a snazzy joint. when there was less demand for this type of operation. and he had kept his promise. Zalachenko abused her mother so viciously that she spent most of her life in hospital. ??If you want me to be your lawyer. Could we isolate them somehow??? ??There??s a fifth officer involved.?? Eriksson said. ??I come from a working-class family.??s board members??? ??That??s not what happened. ??You have a very talented colleague.

Which part of these instructions do you not understand??? ??All the articles that are planned or in production are on the daily memo on our intranet. So there is no record of him until the ??70s. ??I never thought I??d see you again. some years ago. First day on the job. ??A better question would be why did I become a police officer in the first place. She watched the woman as she stood in the queue at the kiosk. & E. He had worked part-time at the magazine for four years.?? ??The type of email Eva Carlsson got??? ??Right. Malm lowered the camera. ??I have my own investigative team and I decide for myself which colleagues to recruit for the investigation. knowing things about her that Giannini did not.D. These activities must be stopped. Her hands were tied behind her back. and she was not ?C so far as he could judge ?C working. I don??t have to use their technical terms.

/ Mikael Salander read his letter twice. Vinge??s memoirs. but no words were exchanged that gave her any clue as to who he was or what sort of I. The thieves were eventually caught. She wondered whether she could manage to get out of bed. But since we don??t know who the enemy is. ??But we have other urgent problems. I can honestly say that I would have wanted very much to know him better.?? Holm said. I??m worried there might be swelling or bleeding in the brain.?? she said. I may be paranoid. He had dealt with why Salander had become a suspect.Saturday. assistant chief of Immigration Division. an anal plug. & E. Salander knew it was no empty threat.

He opened his mobile and called Cortez. I??ve been deliberately keeping quiet about my decision for weeks now. Anita Kaspersson. ??So where do you come from??? ??Most recently from G?teborg.?? ??Your apartment is compromised. who sat on his chair in the corridor.m. She was more interested in pure research in the field. it was not this.?? ??The lab has identified the weapon used on Lundin. He contributed to our investigation by profiling Lisbeth Salander. He isn??t one of us. The written record was meagre in the extreme.K. That had to be the most idiotic intelligence operation in the history of the world.v ?C Monday. He ordered a cup of black coffee and sat at a corner table near the entrance. As Figuerola followed she flipped open her mobile with her left hand and punched in a number.

From her bed at Sahlgrenska she could now reach the entire world.?? ??Zalachenko was a top spy in the ??70s. ??Allow me to manufacture a scenario. ??Right. Then he gently raised her shoulder and located the entry wound in her back. It was a plain wooden pencil. Carl-Magnus Lundin of the Svavelsj? Motorcycle Club was a key player in the whole thing.?? ??I can live with that attitude. or resign from S. spear. He talked for a good thirty minutes. Someone had to take responsibility for seeing to it that national-Bolshevist crackpots ?C who had read too much Bakunin or whoever the hell these neo-Nazis read ?C did not patch together a bomb made of fertilizer and oil and park it in a van outside Rosenbad. except possibly M?rtensson.P. * Zalachenko lay awake for a long time after the man who called himself Jonas Sandberg had left. ??Holmberg ?? it??s nice of you to offer. The story was under control. 2.

??She owns 30 per cent of Millennium and sits on our board. but it was mild and it was distant. Shall we go and have some coffee??? Berger sat up. Blomkvist??s face was shiny with sweat.?? ??What sort of co-operation are you talking about??? ??You??re responsible for her medical condition. smiled sheepishly. On the one hand. He smoked a cigarette while he thought. She is twenty-seven years old and one metre fifty centimetres tall. I know roughly what??s behind it all. Plague locked the parabolic antenna on to the exact frequency. or that Bj?rck was not alone at the time. then G?ransson??s car would have been parked at one of the ports.?? ??That poor girl.G. grey-haired man in a hound??s-tooth jacket walk into the corridor. but I??d love to curl up and sleep next to you. it would mean that the district court finds you not only not guilty.

It did not bode well. and present documentation that annihilates the prosecution??s game. And then she saw a light through the trees and stopped. thank you. Five minutes later she propped herself up on her right elbow.?? ??What does he help you with??? Modig broke in.?? Sellberg said with a polite smile.?? Silence descended in Bublanski??s office as the four criminal inspectors considered these implications.?? ??Where did the rope come from??? ??From the flagpole in the garden. the country might survive. He turned over Bj?rck??s report as soon as S. and she named some standard works that I??d never heard of. His visits to her were outside his schedule. He had ended up in the same situation as during the Wennerstr?m affair. And that was enough. He pushed away the sheet of paper with the nine succinct points that Berger had presented at the weekly meeting of the budget committee.?? ??That??s true. They asked pretty much the same questions about Niedermann as they had the night before.

but they both act as if they??re publishers and editors-in-chief. Blomkvist was working on the Salander story and would not share any part of it.?? Modig said. So too was her brother. But it??s going to be a little up and down until we put this story to bed. I don??t think that. And when Giannini reached the very crux of the whole chain of events. he took a zigzag route through the narrow streets of the old city until he reached the right address and knocked at the door of Black/White Publishing. He sat still for while. But that lifeline could also be a trap. S.?? ??And this story about Gunnar Bj?rck and S?po and the 1991 report ???? ???? is going to be handled by Faste and Ekstr?m. But the living-room window was so big that they did not have the glass in stock. That??s much more serious.?? ??Giannini works in women??s rights. I??ll go over the details with you. a car from Milton will come down from Nacka. He took the stairs down to the ground floor.

and your delicious grotto. He was on the board of Zalachenko??s company.?? ??You amaze me. What am I doing here? She felt exhausted.?? Gullberg said. this is a preliminary investigation and the police are handling it.?? ??There??s going to be an almighty scandal if S?po??s involvement gets leaked. I thought you were taking today off. Then you can go back to sleep. She looked as if she had been beaten to death. and I don??t know of a better person to ask. ??Before we begin to discuss anything. doesn??t know I??m here. to an apartment with the name Martinsson on the door. the media regarded S?po as an excellent news source. you were the only one in the group who offered any opposition when he answered our questions. Blomkvist did not move when she came out. what would have happened if you??d been run over by a bus? Then they would have been without an editor-in-chief with only a moment??s notice.

He did meet with the fair-haired man. But F?lldin had required that one person in his office. Then she turned and locked the bathroom door. a policeman with a secret appointment who devoted himself to shadowing the publisher of Millennium. and who then got upset because she would not drop everything to start a relationship with them.?? Salander said. ??Teleborian??? Jonasson could not help overhearing the name. All of a sudden a heavy downpour lashed at the window. He had already bought coffee and sandwiches for her. Start by reading through the clippings. this is going to be tough. He quoted the newspaper headlines about lesbian Satanists and the media??s apparent hope that the murders might have involved S. Berger had already decided that she would be able to depend on Fredriksson??s insights when she took command of the ship.?? ??I know. and we know for sure that he didn??t take any of the ferries. She noticed that some people were nodding their approval. There was steel in the sick man??s eyes. We??re already out on ice so thin that we??ll need paddles rather than ice picks.

??We??ve got a deadline now. At last he looked up. and that??s why you were cuffed. If she did not find anything of interest in that group.?? ??Is that really so??? ??This story. It had been a strenuous evening.?? ??Yes.P. Blomkvist closed his eyes.V.?? ??O. Most of all she wanted to crawl back into bed and take a month??s holiday.?? ??And??? Figuerola said. ??You can read about a lot of this in a report from the government??s Construction Cost Delegation.?? ??Better quality maybe. I??ve told him he can??t see you. suspected of attempting to murder the fugitive Lisbeth Salander. It was just our bad luck that he happened to be on rotation.