feeling before and had trained himself to interpret it as an alarm triggered by instinct. or swimming.

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??We had a little problem at Millennium while you were away Blomkvisting in G?teborg. and where the commonest qualification for a new recruit was that his father was or had been an officer. of course. He pulled open the door and went into the corridor.?? ??I see. Instead she clicked on the [O] in [ERROR].?? Edklinth nodded. There were also old love letters which she had kept from her teenage years. Sorry.M. ??Black eye. chief talked us into it.S.?? Bublanski said nothing for a long while. We??ll take care of Giannini??s and the Millennium office telephones today.

Her uneasiness grew. Linder spread a blanket over her. hotel rooms.?? ??That??s pretty vague. Then he bought envelopes and stamps and posted the letters in a box with a 9. The next moment she saw a thin. Do you know anything about it??? ??Absolutely not. and he had saved the life of a four-year-old boy who arrived at the hospital with respiratory failure after swallowing the wheel of a toy car.000 Swedish kronor. Gullberg began to believe that Zalachenko was not quite right in the head. which she took back to her office. I called him an imbecile and an incompetent fool. If it??s a matter of a forensic psychiatric report. we questioned him.P.

I. Millennium is sitting on a scoop that will turn the Salander story on its head. and he had heedlessly told her his real name ?C Zalachenko.?? ??That??s right. And yet his liver. They were the ones who had taken care of Zalachenko.?? Blomkvist said. There are also windows on the ground floor and six basement windows that were left without alarms by our predecessors. that he was co-operating. and she was instead put under guardianship. It was too early to go to bed. Criticism of the Section had increased during the first half of the seventies.?? ??That may not be such a bright idea. He had understood that the death of Bodin/Zalachenko was a case that had to be handled with the utmost discretion. since Dr Endrin was assigned to her case.

and a dark five-o??clock shadow. I do what I have to do to survive. Blomkvist was working on the Salander story and would not share any part of it. revenue in Stockholm. Events had been rapid and unpredictable.?? the Prime Minister said.?? ??I understand. ??Come in. Clinton sank silently on to the chair that was offered. 9. She had no reason to love Berger. The man from N. it was not a good idea to start boasting that he actually knew something on a mobile less than two hundred metres from a police station.?? ??Then we could run it in the June issue??? ??No problem.?? Viktor G?ransson was the club??s treasurer and financial expert.

Blomkvist was asking her for permission to tell the truth in his book. He??ll have to be as safety-conscious as you are. Not until Monday evening did Dr Endrin decide. ??I??m thinking of doing just that. opening the door. Criminal Inspector Marcus Erlander from the Violent Crimes Division of the G?teborg police arrived in Gosseberga and took over the investigation from the overburdened Paulsson. ??Good evening. Then he stood and kissed her on the cheek. ??We stay in touch. He had first met Jonasson at a seminar in Stockholm fourteen years earlier and discovered that they were both fly-fishing enthusiasts. has gone out. He was almost at the door when he heard Zalachenko??s voice again.?? ??Car. He wanted to get an idea of how the ward was laid out. He decided to include Bj?rck in the Zalachenko unit.

had a certain opinion of Palme???? ??You??re suggesting that somebody forgot to inform the social democratic government??? Edklinth nodded. It was Gullberg who took up the thread. He had no local knowledge of the streets in Stockholm county.?? ??Micke ?? I??m so sorry. I informed the Prime Minister on a couple of occasions. I want you to go to the hospital and observe the work in the emergency ward and the intensive care unit for a couple of days. and two of those were addressed to Borgsj? personally.?? ??Palmgren??? ??Yes. ??I know that.H against Carl-Magnus Lundin at Stallarholmen ?C i. but my salary at Millennium might not cover it. Nothing out of the ordinary there. shaking his head. ??You look tired. You can??t be employed by the investigation because that would mean you would be obliged to sign an oath of confidentiality.

?? ??Who gave him the instruction??? ??The chief of Secretariat??s assistant.?? he said heartily. which has Bj?rck instructing Teleborian to falsify a mental examination. I??ve checked. that is. limped back to the bed. and a grey jacket. Henry ???? ??Yes??? ??I don??t need them until tomorrow. subcontracts the work to an outfit called Fong Soo Industries. The photograph was taken in the course of the trial. Francke was a bit of a cowboy who saw K. and that in turn would lead to even more damaging speculation and perhaps yet more insistent investigation. But first he had to get a grip on the chaos that Svavelsj? M. is it??? ??Hardly.?? ??I don??t know anything about that.

?? ??I know.B.?? ??That was after Stig Wennerstr?m. Prosecutor Ekstr?m had begun. thirty-nine. ??What is it??? the P. There??s just one problem. At Armansky??s instruction Bohman had been following the Salander investigation from the very start. but when he visited Palmgren the same afternoon at the rehabilitation home in Ersta. Eriksson had only called. In addition. kill the whole story? Orring turned in a good piece. ??How can I help you??? ??It??s about one of your patients. ??For one thing ?? I??m very. and the fact that the girl was shot three times.

You acted correctly. Earlier in the day he had enquired about Lisbeth Salander??s condition. In both latter instances. Discussions are ongoing as to whether to combine all the charges against your client under the jurisdiction of a prosecutor in Stockholm and tie them in with what happened here. My task here is to rejuvenate the newspaper. She looked down and saw blood. and around two kilos of explosives. they agreed to meet at his place at 10. Thank you. so that we know exactly what our deadline is. It did not bode well. ??Blomkvist and Millennium are going to publish it. You don??t have to say a word or give me any information.S. an academic.

There??s just one problem. now hidden behind the bedside table. Nothing could compare with the pain he had undergone for several weeks. There was a Mora sheath knife on the windowsill outside the back door.. no matter what they ask you. It??s dated. Edklinth and Armansky had known each other for twelve years.?? ??I was shot in the head. out and we??ve alerted the police in Norway and Denmark. She forced herself to relax. inducing decision-making political entities or authorities to take decisions in a certain direction. He??s acting on orders from the government. It rang four times before Waltari picked up. but it came in waves instead of being constant.

Why did S?po always have to be such a nightmare to administer? ??The second part is: who is involved? And very specifically. I??m old and handicapped.?? ??Precisely.?? Salander listened attentively to the conversation between her lawyer and her adversary. has called in all copies until the matter is investigated. but he made these journeys less and less often. although endorsed by the highest authorities within the Security Police. that would have been against the law.30 on Saturday evening.?? ??She sort of halfway believed the first email although she was quite surprised by it. ??Hello. this was made out to be a conspiracy. If a colonel on the defence staff could work for the Russians ?C he was also the government??s adviser on matters involving nuclear weapons and security policy ?C it followed that the Russians might have an equally senior agent within the Security Police. ??I don??t know what the restaurants are like in S?der. or unfeminine??? ??No.

But I don??t discuss my patients with journalists.?? Gullberg had brought the flowers with him mainly as an excuse.?? There was a knock at the door. Monica.?? The notion of being the object of public ridicule appeared at last to have an effect on Inspector Paulsson. But in practice two assistant chiefs know of our existence. Bates had taken more than 200 photographs of the community and created a gallery of small thumbnails. Your job is to ascertain the truth and bring the guilty parties to court. Ekstr?m had remarkably little on the record about Zalachenko. In a time of great danger she had been cool. ??H?kan ?? if I??m being a nuisance or if you??re busy today. there was no crime. I think we all assumed she was dead. Teleborian.M.

and detached his prosthesis. The report was what finally put us on the right track. Are you the kind of man who??ll want to arm-wrestle me??? ??You mean. The pain in his jaw was still excruciating and he could manage only liquid food. it can??t have been her intention to kill him. personnel. nor will it cause any problems for you or for Ghidi.?? said Blomkvist. You know how the paper is made and I have a while to go on the school bench. We have an agreement with a local security company. V. ??Good. In fact he did not have the slightest idea how Berger came to call him out of the blue to tell him of the meeting.R. and he had made the connection to the woman in 11C.

it??s Berger.. I don??t know whether that affects things. We??ll deal with any problems as and when they crop up. A man whose name in the public register was Karl Axel Bodin but whose real name. which she unpacked in Berger??s spare room. I??d fall asleep at the wheel and die in a crash.?? ??What about the reports that Bodin tried to murder his daughter??? ??That is under investigation.?? ??It would help if you??d tell me what??s going on. it had taken over half an hour for the Puma from the helicopter unit in S?ve to arrive at the farmhouse. I think we all assumed she was dead.00. He managed a slight curl of his lips. You said that F?lldin was visited by two people from S?po. Psychiatry.

He asked her to please ?C on overtime ?C hurry over to the pub as back-up for Cortez. For special clients he would also offer his video surveillance and telephone tapping services. That was one of the things he liked best about his office. and I are tending towards the belief that Blomkvist is correct in claiming that the first three murders were committed by Niedermann. For one thing.?? ??The culture section has three unfilled positions. she lost interest. Now it seemed all wrong. of course. I wonder which scared him more. Exactly what??s causing it I can??t say.C. were soon dashed. He had had the feeling before and had trained himself to interpret it as an alarm triggered by instinct. or swimming.