reason that he did not know how far up in the organization the conspiracy reached.

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That held for a few minutes until the head of Budget pointed out that S. He pointed to the front page of the evening paper. Teleborian did a routine psychiatric examination of Salander and concluded that she was mentally unbalanced. Millennium is going to publish a story that I am contractually bound not to reveal to S. Only when Salander had logged out of Hacker Republic did she go into Yahoo and log on to the private newsgroup [Idiotic_Table].36. I??ll let you know. He wished that the decisive Fredrik was still there. Which was not very likely. She remembered still the humiliation she had felt when she saw her walk off down Hornsgatan with Blomkvist the day before New Year??s Eve a year and a half ago. I assume that you would have insisted on both social and psychiatric investigations.?? Nieminen shut his eyes for ten full seconds. ??Lisbeth is the one who??s in real danger. My relationship with Lisbeth is none of anyone??s business.?? ??Third. The woman who crushed Wennerstr?m??s empire. This worried Zalachenko.?? ??It??s a fake. In the late morning it dawned on Blomkvist that his rental car was still at the Gosseberga farm. then she wanted to face it first before anyone else got wind of it.

L. ??There are two problems remaining. It was agreed that Zalachenko would be handled by the Section for Special Analysis. ??This is impossible. At 2. Grimly they studied the site. People who have risked their lives for democracy will be in danger of being killed. He was running out of time. A Polish P-83 Wanad on the floor next to the bench in the kitchen. evacuation and break-in protection. no girlfriend. but they were as well trained and probably better equipped too. She discovered that they got along famously. said. and she had not used the program since starting at S. was that an organization assigned to spy on citizens must remain under strict public scrutiny. If you publish before Edklinth has completed it. We??ll put Bj?rck to one side for now. but he knew that some time in the future he would have to pay her back and erase the shame. She thought.

Within the Section this was no obstacle.P.?? They walked together through Kronoberg park towards Fridhemsplan. modern. but that too would leave a trace. But. perhaps more precarious than ever before. You all know that.?? ??I consider her to be withdrawn. He told her succinctly what had happened. Jonasson had also sewn part of a thumb back on to an enthusiastic carpenter who had managed to slice it off.?? ??Order everything you can find from parliament: budgets. There was a pile of unopened post that he shoved firmly to one side. a stack of ammunition. There is a nationwide A. A mood of acute panic. and he had again decided to publish all the articles as a book. He heard the sound of the chopper and watched as it banked through the storm squalls down towards the helipad.M. He??s surely the worst possible editor-in-chief you could pick.

He was an agent for the Soviets?? G. But I need an opportunity to question the girl. He looked startled.?? ??I appreciate that.00 p. Then he began to type. and I would very much like to represent you. Prime Minister Erlander signed a directive that guaranteed the setting aside of funds for the Section for Special Analysis. Morander was writing his editorial this morning. A summer romance? A love affair? Was she in love? She went to the bathroom and washed her face and brushed her teeth. Hi Sally. his sister was no help either.?? Malm threw up his hands. She had given up classic gymnastics. After dinner Ritva repaired to the sofa to watch T. and carried him to the stool. and then a brief and.?? ??I notice that you have golf clubs planted here and there around the house. in other words. Could you give me your impression of her??? ??Well.

of course. Policemen possibly excepted. he had a theoretical knowledge of electronics and computer science that allowed him to knock spots off any professor in the field. ??I need a favour.33.?? ??F?lldin is an honest man. and part-time student. I??m going to remove him as news editor.I. ??I don??t want to get into it.I. purposely selecting younger talent who had experience on the regular police force and were only recently recruited to S.?? a highly placed Swede ?C or possibly other Scandinavian politician ?C who worked for the K.?? ??So when are you actually going to sit down with a pen and paper and write this statement??? ??You??ll have it in a few days.?? ??Tell me how I??m supposed to do that if I have a stalker after me??? ??You see to it that he never has a chance to get close to you.?? the P. of Bjurman??s rape. it was out of the question. He had read Jan Guillou??s books. making the Section responsible for Zalachenko??s safety and debriefing.

?? ??You started it. They had their coffee at the pavement caf?? beside Norr M?larstrand.?? ??Indeed.?? Clinton said into his earpiece. The conspiracy is continuing.?? ??Then it would probably be a good idea to spend the day moving in there. All except for one thing. But now he had a great need for her skills in that field. ??I suggest we don??t decide anything now. Ask if I can visit him at home. sex. He opened his iBook again and read through his text.?? Gullberg nodded. It was 1. ??Blomkvist. Above all they needed the cash to take care of day-to-day expenses. where he was required once more to provide precise directions to the spot. Here??s the registration number. Gullberg stared at it with distaste.?? Jervas said.

??We have to get busy on this.?? ??Your apartment is compromised. A man whose name in the public register was Karl Axel Bodin but whose real name. and put her through. May I come in??? Holmberg sat at the kitchen table while F?lldin poured them some coffee. Ekstr?m wanted an extensive psychiatric examination and had sent a lot of messages with the object of getting her transferred to Kronoberg prison as a matter of urgency. Herr Zalachenko. But I actually have some news. I couldn??t swear to it. it is a tragedy that could have been prevented if there had been more support within society. The source is protected.?? ??I know.?? Jonasson said. and there was nothing new in Aftonbladet online. now a well-known psychiatrist often seen on T.?? ??I??m jumping ahead and anticipating the final assessment. but they had no facts. You??ve awarded yourself a bonus of 400.?? He paused. It??s no secret that some of my predecessors at S.

She reached for her mobile and called her brother. but stopped short. 2. After using Jonasson??s mobile. to help disseminate. They had expected the car to turn up in a matter of days. Who??s going to talk next? What do we do if Bj?rck signs an affidavit confirming his story? And Clinton.C.?? ??Did you come straight here??? ??Yes ?? no. He had an office on Stureplan. ??It??s on the table in front of me. the realm was ruled by a Queen Myrina. She took her Palm and logged on to the Yahoo group [Idiotic_Table] to check whether he had put up anything new in the past twenty-four hours. The visitors?? log of the government Secretariat. of whom four were female. but he walked briskly from the Academic bookshop to the side entrance of N. thinks that Bjurman raped Salander. migraines. ??Mikael.?? ??That works for me.

he was the victim of a crime.00 in the morning.00 p. After a moment he turned on his heel and resumed his little stroll towards Hornsgatan. His other two reports had involved less significant evaluations: one was of an employee inside S.M. so far as they could tell. and when I wake up. his late wife??s name. She asked him to cancel a meeting she had arranged with the culture editor. Either you roll up your sleeves or it??s time for somebody else to take over here.?? she said. She was impressed that Giannini had replied so precisely and lucidly. through her report. all sorts of complaints. ??I think I??ll doze for a while. She first worked in Counter-Espionage. She blamed Blomkvist for this state of affairs as she showered and then rousted him out of bed. But he??s greedy. straight into his pocket.

?? ??It??s hard when you??re locked up like this. It was 9. took the lift up to Bublanski??s office. He might even be able to point you in the direction of Niedermann.?? ??You misunderstand me.00. She felt uneasy. He saw a dining-room table of dark wood that was cluttered with glasses. apparently with a serious wound to the face. But we don??t think so. She is mentally ill. then I??ll say so.?? ??Not on your life. ??We??ll have to postpone the meeting a bit longer. Until she met her in person. Susanne Linder is also a former policewoman. ??Are you ready to come back to work??? Clinton looked up. It was Armansky who had set this in train by giving information to someone he trusted. a white blouse. yes.

but just before the trial begins we might be able to publish a whole feature that examines the accuracy of all the statements that have been made about Salander. It??s four years he??s been with us.?? ??From me? So? What does it say? He handed her some printouts of emails addressed to Eva Carlsson. she had had it up to here with other work.I. not for a moment.?? ??How do you know that??? ??Gullberg met Prime Minister F?lldin six weeks after Zalachenko??s defection. ??My name is Jonas Sandberg.R. She??s at the hospital in Bor?s.?? ??Interesting. It had never come up. She tore electrodes and I. We found a woman??s body in a second trench ?C she??s still unidentified. His spectators vanished as if by magic. He did not know where he was.R. the intensive care unit.?? the P. we did an extensive investigation of your background.

You??ll have my support if you need it. It was 1.?? Magnusson nodded. A certain Lisbeth Salander.?? She stopped and smiled at him. but at a mature thirty-plus or. The Zalachenko story was beginning to get tremendously complicated. She had electrodes taped to her body to record her pulse and breathing.?? ??Is there any prognosis??? ??As I understand it. not at all. I??m a police officer myself.K.??s board members??? ??That??s not what happened.?? ??I??m sorry. It was Giannini. or nigger-lover. It had been one of Gullberg??s last responsibilities. There is a nationwide A. I??ve been at it since dawn. I shouldn??t have picked that spot.

she thought. But it was. He corresponded with Teleborian ?C but the correspondence in the form we??ve seen it is apparently a forgery.I.I. software and endless files containing preliminary investigations that seemed to stretch back several years. But if he does. She was not exactly sneaking around. He had also to resolve how to profile Salander in the article without violating her trust. ??Bullshit. It was cool to outdo S?po in their own field of expertise. He was running out of time. Before I??m through with you. but that was exactly why you hired me. But I??ve moved. His voice was steady. thin as a stick. O. if the entire underworld is looking for him.?? ??Interesting.

Blomkvist trusted Berger implicitly and was never for a second inhibited by the fact that she was going to be working for a rival paper. She was the one who got in touch with us after Lisbeth??s unexpected visit. I wasn??t listening. and on her way through the city she noticed that the workers?? groups had begun to gather. obviously I don??t know what??s wrong with him ?C patient??s confidentiality and all that ?C but the drugs he??s taking are strong ataractics on the one hand. when he came back here. but to him she looked more like an injured sparrow. Finally she looked up and met Blomkvist??s eyes. two kids. was born in Hamburg. unquote.?? ??I can show you chapter and verse to prove that the person who leaked this information is a police officer called Hans Faste. or could he be borrowed for an investigation in Constitutional Protection? The assistant chief of Counter-Espionage was puzzled.?? ??O. though. In 1969. Greger Beckman. presumably. We have a younger talent who does some field work. and it??s urgent.

P.. since Giannini left for G?teborg this morning. But don??t forget that this was during the period when the Soviet Union was collapsing and the K.?? ??What??s this about??? ??I??ll tell you when you get here. He showed Blomkvist the photograph of Evert Gullberg with Colonel Wennerstr?m. He was without doubt a most competent news editor.?? ??So you know nothing about it. Good God. Probably he would go to Tallinn.M. I??ll be out of my office tonight. and fumbled for the talk button. it was. He was furious.?? * Berger went to bed at 11. but after weighing all the options he concluded that the problem called for a drastic solution. It??s not your job to take apart the operational organization.?? She coughed. and put on some coffee.

grey-haired man in a hound??s-tooth jacket walk into the corridor. Here??s the registration number. ??So.B.?? she said. It was not a skilled collage. Gullberg had objected to telling the government at all. Zalachenko had gone and fucked that stupid whore Agneta Sofia Salander. You have a reputation for not pulling your punches when there??s corruption involved. First with Henry and Christer. He heard faint voices to the left and turned to look. later this morning. ??We also have Peter Teleborian. She took another step and pain shot through her entire foot. Saturday. Swedish workers were already out of that race in the ??90s.?? She studied the group thoughtfully. I gather that there was a very considerable difference of opinion between Faste and Bublanski.?? Salander said in a low voice. He found Magnusson??s book to be especially worthwhile reading.

??Allow me to manufacture a scenario. I thought you might be amused to tag along. ??You??ll discover that ?C it comes with the job ?C you??re going to have a number of adversaries out there ?C daily editors and veterans among the editors who have created their own little empires. So I lift weights once a week and spend the rest of the time doing some cross-training. There??s a darker area here.W. 31. Take a taxi. or to move his belongings aside.?? Assistant Editor Fredriksson looked to be in a bad mood as he knocked on the door of Berger??s glass cage at 2. not news reporting.?? After the meeting with Borgsj?.?? ??Presumably in normal circumstances you would be doing everything you could to keep journalists away from a meeting like this. 19.E. As the nurse was closing the door Salander glimpsed the guard on his chair out in the corridor. I felt like an idiot. It would only be natural to mention that.. Then.

The magazine suddenly felt foreign. and through Niedermann he was the architect of the murders of Svensson and Johansson. ??Where is he??? ??He??s down the hall. ??Partly. ??I had to ?? go ?? to the toilet. it would make sense to continue promoting that story. With the possible exception of President Nixon??s lunatic break-in at Watergate. thirty-nine. who did not easily forget an enemy.?? ??What do you think they did in the stairwell??? ??I don??t know. and Blomkvist had got himself somehow involved in the killing of a policeman in G?teborg. I know names. 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. and against all odds the court decided to follow his recommendation ?C so long as she was placed under guardianship.?? ??I find you incredibly attractive. She had received nine emails. (2) They have to separate the ??Salander affair?? from the ??Zalachenko affair??. She had nineteen new messages. yet was relatively lucid and able to talk. she thought.

Sandberg and Nystr?m will do the legwork. He asked her to lean forward and placed the stethoscope on her back to listen to her lungs. or to move his belongings aside. Second.?? ??I find you incredibly attractive. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Svea Construction Inc. Sorry not to have been in touch.?? sent apparently by someone at a well-known media outlet in Sweden. But as long as he risks being busted.?? the Minister of Justice said. It must have been done with the consent of the authorities. He reached out his hand and mussed her hair affectionately. Right now he??s on the run and he??ll be seriously dangerous to anyone he runs into. Modig stood up. O. that extreme variant of bodily glorification. He got out at Birger Jarlsgatan at 10. the officer who had worked with the financial police. That??s just about the riskiest thing we could do. is going to pick this up.

?? ??Do you feel like having dinner later??? ??Bosnian again??? ??No.?? Cortez reported. pointing out that Niedermann was not a man who could be arrested and handcuffed just like that: he was a maniacal killer.v Superintendent Torsten Edklinth. During that period the Sj?bo debate* had been conducted in Sweden. The disagreement with Bublanski seems to have been about Salander. and I??m convinced that it??s the best care she could receive. but he could not remember his name ?C some sort of foreign name ?C but Adamsson did not feel the need to check his I. She remembered the nights when. ??Partly.?? ??Don??t call me crazy. He had first met Jonasson at a seminar in Stockholm fourteen years earlier and discovered that they were both fly-fishing enthusiasts. but he??ll try to get out of the country as soon as he can. assault. I??d fall asleep at the wheel and die in a crash. but the union did nothing about it and her contract wasn??t extended. In the middle of bloody chaos. in the late ??60s. and he was looking forward to that assignment. but he restrained himself for the simple reason that he did not know how far up in the organization the conspiracy reached.