of occasions. Figuerola stared at her receiver for two minutes.F. That??s the question our analytical group is working very hard to answer.

She wondered whether it was some lunatic who had read about her in connection with Morander??s death
She wondered whether it was some lunatic who had read about her in connection with Morander??s death.G. She sent him the access codes for S. That??s the only reasonable explanation. The image was pornographic: a naked woman with exceptionally large breasts. Blomkvist headed into Berger??s ?? wrong. taken to a prison outside Mosul. Nieminen shut the door and walked slowly away from the barn. He decided against the train. I grew up a few miles from there. Alexander Zalachenko ?C otherwise known as Karl Axel Bodin.?? ??That??s true.S. What do we know about the building on Artillerigatan??? ??Not a lot yet. As the situation now stood. the alarm we installed today contains two components. He didn??t go into any detail. and went into the newly created Yahoo group [The_Knights].?? ??I have a feeling that this story is going to be about something altogether different.?? ??What??s happened??? ??Blomkvist found Salander. looking around the bedroom.?? Blomkvist said. She had measured the window and discovered that her head would fit through it and that she would not have much problem squeezing the rest of her body through.

Friday. I don??t think so. Even though it did not offer any answers to his immediate questions. He has fifteen minutes.?? ??And you did it because even you recognize that this is far more than just a scoop in your magazine. The plane landed at Schiphol airport at 4. She was a computer expert.?? Only after she had finished her conversation with Armansky did Berger realize that she had overslept. When at long last Edklinth concluded that he had to act on Armansky??s information. Wadensj??. It showed the church in Jobsville. think and believe anything whatsoever. A number of pictures were of infants. She has to be committed to a mental institution for life. At first he could not grasp what he was seeing.?? ??Oh yes??? ??And then I want to go home and go to bed with my husband. She had a headache again. Even though by now the statute of limitations has run out on the specific instances of crime. She stood there for a while.?? ??Good Lord. and turned on the T. But do you want me to represent you??? Salander gave a curt nod. Cortez frowned and followed Berger with his gaze as she cut across the hall from her office to the kitchenette.

Nine people were seated around the conference table in her office at police headquarters. I??m a part-owner ?? it??s going to be viewed as???? ??I know exactly how it??s going to be viewed. we have to know who they are.?? ??You what??? ??I was rather hoping to have the pleasure of driving out to Sm?dalar? myself.m. He??s innocent of everything and has nothing to say. If death was the black emptiness from which she had just woken up.B. As he ran he called Cortez on his T10. so that we know exactly what our deadline is. by the way??? ??He took some time off. or resign from S. His name was Jonas. that would be nice.?? ??What did you have to do with the policeman??s murder last night??? she asked him at once. What else??? ??The only one who could tell us exactly what happened. and then in fact report to another employer??? ??Something like that. tied to a MOOSE CROSSING sign..V. ??They??re showing signs of leaving. Then she sat and fumed for a long time until her adrenaline level dropped and it began to sink in that she was going to have to sleep alone in a house without an alarm while somebody was running around the neighbourhood calling her a whore and smashing her windows. But I need your help for an introduction ?C so that Idris will listen to me.

?? She nodded. he was behind the kidnapping of Salander??s friend Miriam Wu ?C you probably heard of Paolo Roberto??s title bout in Nykvarn. and then attended a vocational school and earned a certificate as a trained telecommunications technician. ??I??m in G?teborg. The night nurses were at their station about twenty metres down on the other side of the corridor. All he found was a link from Plague to an anonymous U. He was wearing blue jeans. which individuals should be arrested? From my standpoint.?? ??But now we??re getting a little too close to poaching on S?po??s preserves. If the newspaper were stable and bringing in a tremendous profit. Salander herself was critically injured and at Sahlgrenska hospital in G?teborg. They were just passing Sergels Torg in the city centre.?? Andersson said. Erlander cleared his throat. is still one of the big papers. And then she saw a light through the trees and stopped.?? If truth be told. She reached out and rang for a nurse. Greger Beckman. By that time she had produced a document corresponding to two single-spaced A4 pages.?? Figuerola said.M. And the reasoning among the board was to bring in the most improbable editor-in-chief they could think of.

She??s the real victim here. Waltari! They??re looking for him all over the country!?? ??Yeah ?? that??s why he needed somewhere to hide.I. They followed the red Audi via Hamngatan to Strandv?gen and then straight up to Artillerigatan. She unfolded it and read a line written in an elegant script: You??re the hacker. conducted a normal investigation. chief talked us into it. ??I??m ready. She??s hiding something. Gullberg stared at it with distaste..?? ??Tell me. ??Trained as a navy frogman and then attended the police academy in the early ??90s. This is what we??re going to do. Pred wrote. And your entire investigation has to be carried out without a single person other than me knowing anything at all about it. I won??t make any record of your answer and I won??t discuss it with anyone else. Even though by now the statute of limitations has run out on the specific instances of crime. His real name is Alexander Zalachenko and he??s Lisbeth??s father. He had at first worked in the field in the Personal Protection Unit.M. The night nurses were at their station about twenty metres down on the other side of the corridor. People called from all over the world to talk to Baksi.

and hurried off towards the editorial offices on G?tgatan. and pretty strongly at that ?? He must have something up his sleeve. Edklinth turned to Blomkvist. Criminal Inspector. or other handicaps from the injury. He ordered a coffee and a cheese and liver pat?? sandwich. unvarnished truth about her life in a cracklingly terse autobiography of forty pages. but he had been savagely beaten. actually. who sat on his chair in the corridor. ??You know??? Wadensj?? yelled.A. of course. Waltari! They??re looking for him all over the country!?? ??Yeah ?? that??s why he needed somewhere to hide. when Zalachenko arrived in Sweden ?C it had to be organized and sanctioned from the top.?? ??That??s not the only reason. And her breasts. They were sitting at the same conference table at which Blomkvist had sat the day before.S. question her about her actual condition. ??Evert Gullberg. The secret we both protected during my administration is now the subject of some very serious questions. is losing its readers.

?? ??Which means that my problem is definitely the government??s problem. smiled sheepishly. ??That??s about it. even though according to Personal Protection that??s where he is. really.P. If you want to publish tomorrow morning. But I??m beginning to suspect that this Zalachenko club is out of house. But she could afford it. ??And who do you think is going to investigate Salander??? Bublanski said. his uncle took him to a farm well away from Mosul and there. and he got hold of the Prosecutor General. The screen went blank. A trick? Poison Pen? Berger stared at the screen.000 instead.se>??? ??That isn??t a valid address at S. The man would always nod politely but never laughed if he said anything humorous. I see him sitting in the glass cage over there. to shoot you too??? ??I have no way of knowing. the reporter. ??I know that.?? ??No. Then the older of the two receptionists noticed who had just come into the office.

Although.?? ??He succeeded in getting a policeman killed tonight. The driver will know where to drop you. if you add in your annual bonus.?? Sellberg rolled his eyes and sighed. but since I had already filed a report. He began to feel sick immediately and was taken by ambulance to A.?? ??We??ll take care of them. Giannini called Blomkvist this morning.?? ??Alright. Blomkvist was working on the Salander story and would not share any part of it. and if we make a smaller newspaper. is not an exact science. All such matters should be discussed with Malin. Then identify the other person in the pictures taken by Blomkvist??s photographer. and he was a bastard who beat her mother.?? Magnusson nodded. her I.5 who in good Philby style was working for the Russians. It was clear to Gullberg that the Section for Special Analysis could become a politically sensitive unit and the job description was expressly vague. I work in the Violent Crimes Division here in G?teborg. Jonasson was a catalogue of surprises. He noticed that over the course of the evening her fever had again risen dramatically.

and with all the wisdom of hindsight.P. To the bathroom with you. He took the stairs down to the ground floor.?? said Zalachenko. only vice versa. He asked if I liked being pierced and then left the room. she had pushed all thoughts of the Section to one side and concentrated on Berger??s problem. at least. muggings and telephone tapping.?? * The distance by land from London to Stockholm is roughly 1900 kilometres. The crossroads of Bellmansgatan and Tavastgatan. scanner that the hospital had lately acquired.) So. and it??s to look at the differences between reality and the T. I can??t determine what it is. the houses are positioned with their gables facing each other. I can see at least a dozen that are a couple of millimetres long. Blomkvist sat on a sofa while Baksi got coffee from a machine in the hallway. and while he??s gone. and we won??t know the extent or severity of her injuries until she regains consciousness. She had wiped her hard drive clean before she left for Gosseberga and the confrontation with Zalachenko. He glanced around and walked away from the door of the corner shop.

They will do everything they can to reduce the damage to themselves and their group. Figuerola changed gear and turned up Vasagatan. He felt very much afraid that his suspicions were going to turn out to be justified. Edklinth thought him taciturn. Sonja Modig was closer to police headquarters than Bublanski had thought.?? Her hair was still so short that he hardly needed to push aside the tufts to feel the scar above her ear. ??There??s going to be a scandal of enormous proportions. a white blouse. Zalachenko looked up in surprise at his unannounced visitor. She bought a tin of Catch Dry snuff and went back out on to S?dermalmstorg and turned right across Katarinav?gen. we changed your bedroom door today. So why are you talking to me? Should I take it to mean that you have a certain amount of trust in me??? She did not reply. quite firmly. ??From a medical standpoint. taking a folder from his briefcase. Then he placed his hands gently around her neck and turned her head back and forth and to the sides a few times. I??ve told him he can??t see you. a man infinitely better qualified. Serial number unknown. Karl Axel Bodin would disappear into rehabilitative custody. forty-minus. ??What would you like to know??? Bublanski said at last. and what vehicles drop anyone off at that address.

He chose the only clean shirt he had left in the brown briefcase and put on a brown-patterned tie. But that wasn??t why I had to see you tonight. ??Because a ?? what did you call it ?? a crazy-doctor by the name of Peter Teleborian.?? said Holmberg. No matter what. I was Dr L?derman??s assistant when he was in practice. but she had worked alongside Berger balancing the monthly books. and that there was good reason to offer him a false identity and anonymity.?? Blomkvist said. She explained that the county police chief was at the Europol conference in Madrid. and it can be postponed for longer if you need more time. in such appalling circumstances. There was an envelope with photographs that had been cool at the time. or for one of the ferries??? ??I know. She thought through each sentence before she tapped it in. BuckRogers. He had a view of medicine that was at times unorthodox. ??You don??t understand. but that did not mean that he might not be living with someone. She went on to report how at one point during the rape he had wound a piece of clothing ?C her own T-shirt ?C around her neck and strangled her for such a long time that she temporarily lost consciousness. ??Forceps. He saw a dining-room table of dark wood that was cluttered with glasses. Are you O.

Q.00 yesterday morning. and Holmberg wondered who did the sowing and harvesting. I??ve thought about it. Slowly she put down her coffee cup. The driver will know where to drop you. and she was not ?C so far as he could judge ?C working. ??The Zalachenko club spies on me. I didn??t make all this mess.?? His voice quivered with contempt as he spoke those last words. and if she??s going to be taken to court in the near future. as Mikael Blomkvist claimed from the very beginning. The first is the office of the Prosecutor General. but now they??re working for us.?? Blomkvist said.S. Some of them concerned how he should present Salander in the articles.M.?? he said.?? He thanked Dr Endrin. My sense is that he??s more a useful fool being used by the Section. and two of those were addressed to Borgsj? personally.?? ??I??m not interested in military secrets.

.I.?? ??She is extremely manipulative. Zalachenko??s answers were much more aggressive and hostile when she asked the questions. It must be done each day. ??And what are you going to do with that? Shoot me? You??ll spend the rest of your miserable life in prison. How in God??s name could he have been so bloody stupid? She wondered whether there might be an alternative explanation or some mitigating circumstances. and that was annoying. I refer to the fact that Salander hit her father with an axe. She made her way cautiously through the house and switched on the coffeemaker. which was active in the late ??90s. It would be a newspaper billboard sensation and there would be volcanic eruptions high up in the government bureaucracy.?? ??Yes. In January 1992 he left Upplands V?sby a free man. M?rtensson ?C he works as a bodyguard in S. was pleased.M. and the head of Secretariat. in any case. * Gullberg had begun at the Russia desk of the third division of the state police.?? ??Do you have your own bloody intelligence service at Millennium??? she burst out. only to me. and nothing was touched or moved ?C except for one thing.

but he restrained himself.?? Gullberg repeated. Blomkvist is not afraid to take risks.Q. That would require us to believe that Salander is innocent. Over the next ten years it grew to include no more than eleven people. She waved him away. Anders Pehrzon. He stopped and looked about him.?? ??Spare me the bullshit. Someone who rummaged around in your brain had to be treated with respect. Quite the opposite: I want to give you some information. She felt everyone??s eyes upon her. Figuerola had begun to think that maybe she ought to start looking for a steady partner and a more permanent living arrangement. Careerist. 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. It would make a passable weapon ?C for stabbing a face or an eye.. 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. and then a brief and. ??I think she??s out of danger. He stifled the impulse to call and wake someone up at 3. ??What was he like??? ??Much as he is today.

You keep a sharp eye on your surroundings. ??This is a complete mess. ??It??s on the table in front of me. and your delicious grotto. dealing as they were mainly with confused youths flirting with Arab or pro-Palestinian elements. And item two: today this piece by Johannes shows up on my desk. I got a call from S.?? ??What??s that??? ??Two of the letters were sent to the justice department ?C to the Minister of Justice and to the Deputy Minister. He was based in London.?? Edklinth thought about it. but now she??s really going to need a lawyer. can you handle this??? ??Yes. except possibly M?rtensson.T. So simple. I saw him in a press conference on T.I. a dental nurse who lived in Alings?s.?? Only three people knew where Svavelsj? M.G. The body had been discovered on April 19 by none other than Inspector Andersson.?? he said. And I??m dead tired.

point by detailed point.P. And now we come to another stumbling block. sent on May 15. She unfolded it and read a line written in an elegant script: You??re the hacker. But we can??t clear this matter up all by ourselves. Dr Jonasson was pleased with the response he had got. ??Teleborian went straight to Ekstr?m. which Blomkvist knew but Giannini did not. But this was not going to be of any help to Salander.I.?? ??What I mean is that you should go on with your life and not feel as though you need to entertain me. At first he was sceptical about the information that the excited young officer was telling him. Blomkvist called from Caf?? Madeleine on his anonymous mobile to book a flight to Amsterdam. card and stating that he had urgent business.?? Bublanski said nothing for a long while. into the living room. The usual. ??I??ve extended your assignment by three months. I fall asleep like a blown-out candle as soon as I get home. ??You??ve recovered nicely. Every other basic right. ??We??ve borrowed the place for tonight??s meeting.

Classify TOP SECRET. of the server where he kept Teleborian??s hard drive. The selection was scarcely based on any statistical. I have to go. although he had spent only a few brief months at sea during his military service. ??Evert ?? you have to understand that ?? we don??t do things like that any more. or die. Then came the election in 1985. I check out every car that catches my attention. the report would be printed out and scrutinized. With infinite care he inserted a probe into the brain and enlarged the wound channel by a few millimetres. I??m saying that some people within the Security Police are involved in such activity. He persuaded us that it would be less expensive in the long run. The stalker then took the opportunity to get into the house. She saw no-one who showed any interest in her.?? the Minister of Justice said.?? Salander gave Jonasson a lopsided smile. and that he had to deal with the kids in the morning. and according to what I??ve overheard he was shot in the head all three times. Bublanski and Modig looked dubious. What??s going on??? ??He??s working in G?teborg. three emails from Fredriksson updating her on developments in the day??s lead story. Edklinth had told her: no rings in the water.

but it had been a long day and a long journey. She waved him away. when he moved back to Sweden.00 a. a policeman. He had taken off her shoes and her trousers so that he could bandage the wound to her hip.?? On the reverse was a stamp saying that the picture belonged to ?hlens & ?kerlunds Publishers and that the photographer??s name was Julius Estholm. ??We are all extremely unhappy about the situation. Do you know what this means? It means that S. No-one voiced any objections.C. demanding her attention and vexing her intellect. At 6.?? ??I don??t have any better suggestions. He had offered credentials to indicate that he worked for S. this would have been hard to avoid.?? Giannini said. And you??re better than I am at what you do. feeling stressed. ??How many killings do you reckon this case involves??? Holmberg rubbed his eyes wearily. She turned off the Palm at once and put it in the recess in the back of the bedside table. cradling his coffee.00 p.

One was manageable. Figuerola raised a hand. What he most feared was that the situation in the Salander family would give rise to a social welfare report that named Zalachenko. His mind was spinning as he tried to digest the catastrophe.?? ??Which means that ???? He let the question hang in the air between them. She complained of severe headaches and developed a fever that has been fluctuating up and down. I??ll listen to what you have to say. And I??ve decided not to come back here to put in any days during the transition period.?? ??Yes. Now it turns out that you??re the last one in the office to find out.?? ??Such as who??? ??The Minister of Justice. One of the medics tended to Salander while the other took care of Alexander Zalachenko. such as ??O.?? ??Mikael ?? I don??t think you really appreciate what this involves. Jan Bublanski. I was never privy to the details. working at the Karolinska hospital in Stockholm. You have only to do the first check.?? Modig sighed.?? the Prime Minister said. Are you doing the exercises the therapist recommended??? She nodded.?? ??No. pain shot like a knife through his back.

P. Everything pointed to the conclusion that Gunnar Bj?rck.32. according to a witness.?? ??Hello. of whom two were administrative secretaries of the old school and the remainder were professional spy hunters. At first he had travelled frequently to Stockholm. that??s a fee I??ll gladly pay. Magge gets shot and you??re busted.?? ??Doing what??? ??I??m guessing ?C since she was filming M?rtensson and Faulsson on the street ?C that she??s documenting their activities. She had been dozing only a few minutes when she was aware of movement and opened her eyelids to a narrow slit. But this trial is going to be about entirely different things. She took Cortez??s folder with her and spent the next half hour reading through the whole story. And then the key witness. and so on. She knew what I. One policeman killed and another seriously wounded. According to the green numerals on the digital clock on her bedside cabinet. But he had no idea how to go about identifying these people. and at the offices. It??s Zalachenko who??s the problem. As soon as she was a little way down the hill.?? The officers nodded.

In this photograph he was still with the Secret State Police.?? Bublanski shrugged.?? Blomkvist said.?? Bublanski said.?? ??Tell me.?? Salander thought for a while. we??re still two people short in editorial.. Blomkvist has made a connection to the murder several months ago of a prostitute in S?dert?lje. but after going back and forth about this. we have to know who they are.?? ??It??s up to Salander to decide.?? ??We??ll install the alarm this afternoon. and the garage.?? Erlander made notes between taking sips of his coffee. so that Millennium??s office was always staffed and someone slept there every night. and there must be hundreds of articles you don??t know about. Instead she had an area cleared off the central desk in the heart of the newsroom. She had a routine that I can??t compete with. But he says that the last time he saw the gun. It??s more about the boxing world in general. ??I??ll call her and arrange to meet. And when Giannini reached the very crux of the whole chain of events.

and Blomkvist had got himself somehow involved in the killing of a policeman in G?teborg. so he limped to the telephone booth at the grocer??s to call Landsort and book himself a room in the old ships?? pilot lookout. At long last D. ??Are those your brothers??? ??My two brothers on the left who were murdered by Saddam in the ??80s. ??What the hell is this. Extremely good at puzzles. Here we are. V. yes.E. At all other times either Berger or David were in the house until the theft was discovered. ??As the situation stands. I couldn??t even take notes. 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.?? If Zalachenko could have laughed he would have. ??Lesbian Satanist gang?? ?? where the hell do you get this stuff? Not to mention her being sought in connection with three murders she had nothing to do with. which decided that Salander should be cared for at St Stefan??s. Bublanski was also wearing a kippa. ??Now we know.?? Salander weighed this information. 27. but the glass was her only reachable weapon. He thought about it for two minutes.

When he had finished he made some observations. Is he out of his mind??? ??You mean he??s alive??? ??For the time being.?? ??What is it??? ??Since you were shut up at St Stefan??s when you were twelve.?? There was absolute silence in the room. But instead of the usual assignment at sea that he had anticipated.. or various volunteer tasks for Amnesty International and the like. If this was the case. And yet Bj?rck had never had anything to do with Counter-Espionage. Lisbeth Salander had seldom rung for a nurse if she did not have a severe headache or some other equally serious problem. Then he spoke in a lighter tone of voice.S. ??First of all.?? ??Alright. Was it you who put duct tape on her wounds??? ??Yes. and I would like to be included at an early stage. There??s just one problem. ??He?? could even be a woman.?? Cortez scratched his ear. I informed the Prime Minister on a couple of occasions. Figuerola stared at her receiver for two minutes.F. That??s the question our analytical group is working very hard to answer.