She only got his voicemail. which began with KAB.P. finally. Trinity was born in Bradford.?? This.

?? ??With regard to this girl Salander ???? the Minister of Justice began
?? ??With regard to this girl Salander ???? the Minister of Justice began. You don??t need any more weeks of rehab. ??I??ve read Dag Svensson??s manuscript. Salander has been subjected to a number of infringements of her rights. could decide to put S?po??s top bosses under the microscope.?? Figuerola said. Trinity had an antenna constructed by Bob the Dog which had an effective range of about five hundred metres.com>. She switched to the other channel. P. but he seemed alert still. Bublanski and his team have to focus on Niedermann.?? ??And Faste has replaced us. The picture was from her old byline at Millennium and could be downloaded off the Net. From a practical point of view she could see why her lawyer kept going on and on about details from her past. ??Yes. He called Malm as the train was coming into Stockholm and asked him what had prompted the tone of his text message. I write whatever I want ?C and I also have an entire magazine at my disposal.30.

where she belongs.S. But that??s now your third lie in about the same number of minutes.I. Lars Faulsson. The follow-up care had been a marathon of agony. ??I know that. ??Welcome. S. With a defector of such provenance the order must have come from the highest level.?? ??How many are working for the Section today??? ??We??ve reorganized a bit. the U. plus being hung out to dry in the media. That??s why I??m here. She assumed that he would be in the restaurant car and that is where she found him. But she could not remember what it was. He??ll understand. After a moment??s thought he also turned on his Ericsson T10. This would be her last Saturday lunch at Sahlgrenska.

If we??re going to have the slightest chance. a de facto coup has taken place in Sweden. He??s probably riding around in G?ransson??s Saab.U. Bj?rck proposes that Zalachenko??s rehabilitation ?C he suffered very severe burns ?C be carried out abroad. in any case. It was the first time she had smiled at Sahlgrenska hospital. I don??t have to use their technical terms.?? ??It??s that simple??? ??What else can we do in this case? We could leave the bullet where it is. ??I have met Mikael Blomkvist on several occasions in the course of this investigation. hasn??t done any serious coverage of the civil service and government agencies for at least eight years. if I understood correctly ?C is to clean corridor 11C. Nieminen bent down and looked at the bodies. and Nieminen. are cutting into our ad. Francke.00 Edklinth arrived. There would be some ulterior motive. I cannot have a news editor that I can??t trust or work with and who devotes his precious time to undermining my decisions.

we won??t be able to draw any conclusions. but how gigantic this problem would become was something Gullberg could never have imagined in his wildest dreams. If such a word occurred.?? ??The government does not cover up criminal activity. He did not know where he was. Figuerola came to Edklinth??s office. the Prosecutor General was too lenient with cases concerning what were. and a navy blue jacket. he switched to being a private security consultant. She reached for her mobile and called her brother. S?po got saddled with Zalachenko in the middle of the Cold War. He??s perfect as publisher and damned good at editing articles and tying up loose ends in work that is going to be published. a couple of times.?? ??I don??t doubt that. I??m sorry I??ve not come to see you the past few days.S. black-and-white photograph on the desk. Millennium. The outgoing Prime Minister was certainly not to be informed.

. something that was not right.?? Blomkvist said.?? ??And what happened??? ??I introduced myself. Gullberg considered various alternatives and then chose to steer Bjurman carefully out of the picture. ??Erika. I became a police officer because I thought. Zalachenko scrutinized him for fifteen seconds. there was a possibility that the Section would be subjected to official scrutiny. You??re right about that. ??Does that mean that you don??t know. I demand that you call Inspector Bublanski in Stockholm. your sister.?? ??Good.?? ??Why??s that??? ??Circulation has dropped by nearly 150.I. Could you please ask her to come to my office in ten minutes??? In the meantime Berger composed her own email.?? Sp?ngberg raised her pen. Malin.

You and your husband live in a detached house. when he had to use a drill to enlarge the hole in the skull. Gullberg was the chief. I??m putting my reputation and career on the line by calling you with this request. and one metre eighty-four tall. a police officer living on Vittangigaten in V?llingby. You??re in a hospital.?? ??I??ll tell you later. of course.?? ??No indeed. As always.00 in the morning. but he can??t go against an administrative decision. ??Sorry. At first he could not grasp what he was seeing. The shot in Lundin??s foot must have happened after she kicked him. they just slip into the shadows. went back into her office and closed the door.?? ??Two??? ??And I??m not Erika.

She??ll have to choose between selling her share of Millennium and leaving our board ?? or in the worst case. That was what they had been expecting. come what may. she very steadily raised her Nikon with its 300mm telephoto lens and took two pictures.?? ??What was the number??? ??I couldn??t possibly remember. Bloody Blomkvist. introduced himself. Most of all she wanted to crawl back into bed and take a month??s holiday.?? ??Someone??? ??Dragan. Anyway ???? ??Yes??? ??She had no good reason to trust the police. He had to deal with Teleborian. of which only three were furnished.000 kronor. Slip wrote. We have to talk.W. She was no longer limping. ??Jerker asked what he knew about the defection. and that I wanted to look at and approve everything that was to be published.

M?rtensson punched in the code and they disappeared into the stairwell. She had brought a book with her. He also beat up Lisbeth??s mother year after year. From the X-ray he could see that the bullet had turned and was lying at an angle of forty-five degrees to the entry channel.P. He downloaded four folders. after all.?? ??Exactly.?? On the reverse was a stamp saying that the picture belonged to ?hlens & ?kerlunds Publishers and that the photographer??s name was Julius Estholm. ??Turn the print over. Don??t ever forget that. writing with the stylus on the keypad. and would have been passed over to the next administration. ??You??ll probably be transferred pretty soon. Often she did not reply at all. Sonja Modig was closer to police headquarters than Bublanski had thought. It concerns only those directly involved. He left the firm after ten years and opened his own practice.?? Erlander said.

But it definitely does mean that some individuals within S. staring in bewilderment at the Palm.?? ??F?lldin is an honest man. If she??s sentenced to a secure psychiatric facility. It looked as though she might have been buried during the night.V. really bad bastard. Then he sat on the edge of the bed and untied the strings of her nightshirt.?? ??We??ll take care of them. He poured himself the miniature Glenfiddich. In real life he was a severely overweight and socially challenged thirty-year-old living on disability benefit in Sundbyberg.??s department of Counter-Espionage in a quite different case. He had the face of a model and looked weak. That??s too short a time. On the other hand. She felt a fool. did he arrest Mikael Blomkvist last night??? ??He wrote a report citing offensive behaviour. Mikael. If there??s any reason to cast doubt on Bublanski??s group.

K. But do you want me to represent you??? Salander gave a curt nod. Which is why she??s still alive. but a Karl Axel Bodin seems to have been born in 1942 in Uddevalla. The roster included himself. She was amazed to be still alive. who had picked up Zalachenko??s trail. light-blonde. said they would fix it first thing in the morning. He made a call to his sister. ??You do know that I could get into very deep water for this. also in some quarters known as the Salander case. Blomkvist waited. getting up. a folder on the kitchen table. and was admitted by the rabbi himself. She also has a bullet wound in her shoulder and another in her hip. male American of Catholic origin living in Toronto. Someone had been in his apartment.

?? She fell silent. who had obviously not paid attention to a word he had said. and he doesn??t have a criminal record. Then I might as well tell you that I??ve already received a formal commission from Prosecutor Ekstr?m in Stockholm to do a forensic psychiatric report.?? ??If we have to arrange full bodyguard protection. but he could get out of his bed and begin to make himself mobile. The work was routine.?? When at long last he realized that it was fruitless trying to persuade Jonasson to change his mind. but Salander was simply so drugged and exhausted that she would fall asleep while Giannini was speaking. ??I??ll do it. ??Died in the early ??90s. So they faked a diagnosis to make sure that Lisbeth was committed. I only knew him by his cover name.?? ??Send out an A. He had patched up a girl who had ridden her bike into a ditch that the road-repair department had chosen to dig close to the end of a bike path; the warning barriers had been tipped into the hole.?? Gullberg nodded. The press haven??t picked up on it yet. ??Clinton is tired. i.

The conversation was in Kurdish. Janeryd turned pale. ??I??ll find out if he has time. The outgoing Prime Minister was certainly not to be informed. nothing yet. In 1969.S. and finally the preliminary investigation leader. If you imported directly from the factory in Vietnam. which individuals should be arrested? From my standpoint. we??re going to have to send them the camera-ready copy by the end of this month ?C at the latest.?? Salander said. ??That??s correct.?? Jonasson sat for a while. nor did he have the feeling that he was being watched or followed.?? ??Are you sure??? She nodded.M. What do we know about the building on Artillerigatan??? ??Not a lot yet. but usually he just followed through with what other people had already decided.

?? ??Inside S?po??? Blomkvist said with undisguised scepticism. of course.P. If the attack alarm is sounded. You and I and perhaps a few other people might need to sit down for a chat. through her report. evacuation and break-in protection. obviously. Suddenly she realized that her briefcase was gone. He might also be a man who worked in maintenance. And this evening Edklinth has been reporting on how the investigation is proceeding. ??We could start by having some coffee ?? Monica??? Edklinth said. With difficulty she propped herself up.?? ??It??s complicated.?? She put the address into the inside pocket of her jacket.I. As far as we can determine at the moment. seventy-eight years old. said.

That folder is your most important evidence.30 this morning. 9. He was a senior official in the immigration unit. ??Thanks. and the like. a couple of weeks ago. and it was as silent as the grave in the conference room. A speech bubble materialized with the text [WHO GOES THERE?]. She??s strange.com>. who had also been her lover over the past twenty years. ??Hi. ??What??s happened??? he said.M. That usually happened only when she had a visitor or was working intently on some problem. no great fortune. ??Well. Even though it did not offer any answers to his immediate questions.

It was 6. And she liked giving in to threats even less.?? ??No ?? no. almost ten million kronor for nine individuals who sit on S. He was given a part-time job managing a cleaning crew at Sahlgrenska hospital. He wished Sandberg had ordered Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes and lingonberries.?? ??Nonsense. and you don??t need a lot of muscle to fracture a jaw. Then a shot was fired accidentally that hit him in the foot. I just need to know what??s happening with the charges against her. and seldom got the chance to sleep even if no emergency patients came in. At lunchtime she returned to police headquarters in Kungsholmen and spent two hours thinking as she pumped iron in the gym. She saw that it was 5. had been stolen from a chest of drawers in her bedroom. I??m now on a side street off Linn??gatan.. Until that moment Salander had meant nothing to him. She sat still. but he suddenly felt inspired.

and we won??t know the extent or severity of her injuries until she regains consciousness.?? Malmberg said. All contacts with S. this trial is going to turn on who uses the toughest methods. Everything could have gone fine. Gullberg. I told you that you would have to handle him like a live grenade. letters and photographs. Violation of the prostitution laws.M. I took down your registration and ran a routine check. let alone leave the room. He served in G?teborg before he moved to Trollh?ttan. At 4. She called the vehicle recovery service. So. I gather. Then he shut off the computer and sat down at Salander??s kitchen table with an editing pencil.00 in the morning.

Under the circumstances neither of these epithets could be considered wide of the mark. She glanced at Blomkvist. Chairman of the Board Borgsj? arrived at 2. but we??ve discussed the situation and agreed that we need to talk to you. Then he looked up and got a split second??s glimpse of Teleborian??s dishevelled profile and goatee as he came out of Pressbyr?n on the other side of the ticket hall. born in 1917. and I have no intention of revealing its whereabouts. She seemed to have sharp pain in her left shoulder when she tried to move her arm. Figuerola raised a hand. Nieminen bent down and looked at the bodies. Do you remember me??? She shook her head. Then it occurred to her that she had other secrets in the house. When he heard the approaching helicopter he stuffed it into the inside pocket of his jacket and then went through all her other pockets. but it had to be something that her brother considered important enough to conceal.S. So she can??t tell me what the two of you discuss. There is substantial documentation. you??re worryingly habit-forming.?? Gullberg repeated.

nothing yet.?? she added. Everything had looked so good. She already knew that however she dealt with it. Do you want me to be your lawyer? Armansky and Mikael are paying my fee and???? ??No.?? ??I understand. It was a mark of the sort of greed that did not go down well with the Swedish people in the wake of the revelations about other criminal capitalists such as Skandia??s former president. I was born on 30 April 1978. Now she was suddenly editor-in-chief. Every time she accessed Teleborian??s hard drive she felt as if her body temperature dropped a few degrees. The story simply did not sound credible.K. which had a range of ten to twelve metres. If you don??t run every day. Landskrona.?? Modig said. Thanks for the legwork yesterday.E. Ronald Niedermann was without doubt a very talented person who had physical attributes to make him a formidable and feared individual.

She looked up.G.?? ??We??ll see how it goes. ??Mikael. ??How am I doing??? she said. Blomkvist printed out the 220 pages of the manuscript that were finished. it is a tragedy that could have been prevented if there had been more support within society.?? ??Why would we be cooking something up??? ??Because Prosecutor Ekstr?m has asked me a dozen times how much you at Milton Security actually knew about the Salander investigation.?? Nystr?m said. and all else it takes to publish a newspaper.?? ??Does it have anything to do with terrorists and threat assessments???? ??No. We can assume that another two police officers ??. He undertook never to discuss the matter with anyone. She only got his voicemail. which began with KAB.P. finally. Trinity was born in Bradford.?? This.