suspicious. Salander glanced at the digital clock on her bedside table.

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for the sake of fairness. Ghidi never discovered. It took a few seconds before the horror of it sank in.S. everything was quiet. But I??m going to report you for dereliction of duty and you won??t even know what hit you. Three were messages to call Berger. How much would all that stuff weigh? No. ??Mikael. Salander put a lot of effort into establishing a secret address for herself. I can??t tell you how glad I am that you??re taking over. There would certainly be headlines in the evening papers and it would probably result in an assault charge. The nurse had asked him to wait while she went to see whether Herr Bodin was awake. ??And what sort of excuse would I have to barge in on Ekstr?m??? Modig asked. blond man with a crewcut who wore a black leather jacket.

Wadensj??. She was obviously prone to violence and mentally disturbed.?? ??Could you explain your relationship to Niedermann??? ??I??m disabled.M.?? Blomkvist said. But from a purely political standpoint. Blomkvist had observed their comings and goings from his vantage point in Paulsson??s vehicle. She was dressed for the office in black trousers. And we would very much like to know what strategy they??re planning. If I like it.D. out every day.?? ??And??? ??I don??t like the man. I have special knowledge of the subject that no-one else at S. and he got hold of the Prosecutor General.

?? ??What do you need now??? ??A little more legwork. He has security clearance and you can discuss classified information with him in general terms. which she unpacked in Berger??s spare room.?? ??Sounds promising.?? ??And how are we supposed to give her the proper care here if we can??t have access to her records? The medical responsibility for her right now is ours. but they never argued either. In that respect he??s predictable. female and Lutheran. just call.?? ??What do you mean. You might bear in mind that the beating that provoked Lisbeth??s attack put her mother in hospital for the rest of her life. Ronald Niedermann was without doubt a very talented person who had physical attributes to make him a formidable and feared individual. But that??s not why you came. ??You don??t understand. but then it was to do with my work.

H?kan Morander. Plague was an intelligent and socially gifted citizen. Check the masthead.I. Cortez. memorized. which was a factor since he was paying for the journey himself. Magnus. You??ll have to prepare him for the fact that probably I won??t be in a position to make a decision in the coming week.?? ??What sort of co-operation are you talking about??? ??You??re responsible for her medical condition. Annika has obeyed the rules. said: ??Yes.?? A smile spread over Cortez??s face. a checked shirt and a leather jacket. I??m a survivor.

So she went to the garage and spent several minutes looking for her golf bag. for example. which she took back to her office. almost all of them from journalists. You should be able to call for help. Blomkvist??s sister.?? ??I might have to contest the decision in court ?? For the girl??s own sake she has to have a proper defence. ??Find out which room she??s in. It??s relatively isolated. She stepped into the stairwell and was looking for a light switch when the attack came out of the blue. Hello. There were plug sockets by the door and in the panel behind the bed. ??Clinton first??? ??If he??s still alive. who had an alcohol problem. took the lift up to Bublanski??s office.

The storm had moved in over G?teborg. Figuerola escorted Blomkvist out of police headquarters at 10. he was willing to listen. The pain in his jaw was still excruciating and he could manage only liquid food.?? ??I??m still a member of Millennium??s board.S. 10.?? ??The board approved your measures. it is sick. His murderer had shown interest also in Salander. a woman by the name of Kristina Cederholm. She had been told not to feel obliged to entertain her ??guest. By 10. claimed that he sexually harassed her. Salander logged off by writing a brief message: Everyone sent her hugs and kisses and admonished her to keep the hole in her head warm.

and I thought that he needed a break. but she supposed that she would have to escape and discreetly disappear abroad herself if she did not want to risk being locked up in some nuthouse again with Teleborian as her warder. and I would like to be included at an early stage. he had to relay the conversations via another mobile back home to Plague. Tell me. They found G?ransson and his girlfriend in the basement. or Swedish Internal Security ?C S.C. I??m into my third day with hardly any sleep. His job was to investigate crimes. Not until the spring of 1978 was he given a passport in the name of Karl Axel Bodin. She sounded surprised.Q. She was pleased and thanked me for taking the trouble. and thereby indirectly the entire police investigation.

What are you looking for??? ??I want you to do a workplace report on Sahlgrenska hospital. or resign from S.?? ??Alright. The text was written in pencil. ??I??m in.?? Berglund said. Was G?ran M?rtensson working on anything important. ??I need a favour. I work in the Violent Crimes Division here in G?teborg. ??There??s nothing in any report that I??ve seen from the Security Police that could have a bearing on this matter.10. ??You still haven??t got it. ??Hello. leaned her crutches against the bookshelves. ??He??s turning north on Kungsgatan.

In what way has he become harder to handle??? ??The police chief up there is an old friend of Paulsson??s.?? ??I see. which right now is a nightmare. The woman turned the corner at McDonald??s and Figuerola hurried after her.?? the P. The same is true of S?po. Magnus. ??Oops. It was as dark as coal. So he had decided to play it safe. ??Can??t someone give that man early retirement? He??s a walking catastrophe. The woman who crushed Wennerstr?m??s empire.?? ??Gunnar Bj?rck. Erika shrugged. Two months later Idris Ghidi was seized by the Iraqi secret police.

she consistently refused to participate in conversations with Dr L?derman. It was as dark as coal. ??I can understand why you??d want to quit this madhouse ?? but to be the head of Sweden??s most turgid old-boy newspaper ?? that??s going to take some time to sink in. He was better off not asking any questions. The chairman of the board is Magnus Borgsj?. And now I??m working here at Sahlgrenska and patching up people like you.?? the Minister of Justice said.?? Modig and Holmberg then described in detail the investigation as it had developed. but asked questions until he was satisfied. forty-two. He was biding his time and letting the other participants at the meeting say their piece. ??Hardly. ??It??s a disaster. she won??t be able to do the research she needs to do to prepare her defence.?? ??In Stockholm we have a photograph of him that??s about twenty years old.

but I think you??ll have to inform the speaker of parliament and the constitutional committee ?? This is going to leak out fast. There is substantial documentation. Welcome. Or else the falsification was done for a completely different purpose by someone inside the Security Police. ??The task of Constitutional Protection is to defend the constitution against what we call ??internal threats??. Wadensj??. of Milton Security. and she discovered that some S?po activists are running illegal telephone taps and breaking into my apartment and stealing things.?? ??Cancer??? ??He??s been carrying that gun around for the past six months.20 before Cortez called. He had made a round to check on the state of his patients. turned to the Minister of Justice. The departing editor-in-chief. They had taken it in turns to drive. But he was bothered by the fact that they had to dress like that in the middle of Stockholm.

??He did talk to the nurse and he left the flowers at the desk. Can you hear me??? ??Mmm. ??The X2000 to G?teborg leaves at 5. Figuerola most definitely had no right to invite him here on her own authority. ??I??m going out for a while. Again. ??Then look into Gullberg??s background. ??So ??. Millennium did not have the resources to keep any employee on an open-ended budget with all sorts of expenses in the form of rental cars.?? ??Did he threaten anyone else??? ??I have been advised that he did. she has been throughout a victim in the whole affair. Now it seemed all wrong.?? ??And if Ekstr?m is worried. He was working on a story about sex trafficking. bodyguard protection.

Eriksson was fine. Gullberg was the chief. Over the next forty-five minutes Jonasson picked out no fewer than thirty-two tiny bone chips from round the entry wound. Blomkvist had got two cars out of the barn. She knew that on Walpurgis Night she had had her twenty-seventh birthday. He took into account that Salander must be under a great deal of stress for having been suspected of three murders plus a damn-near fatal assault on her late father. turned on but not uplinked. When we recruit somebody. but he had a short fuse and was a dangerous man. said. the logical thing for Ekstr?m to do would have been to contact the general director of the Security Police to determine who Zalachenko actually was.?? ??Right. Palme had accordingly been one of the first subjects that Gullberg discussed with him during the long debriefing. born 1950.P.

?? ??But F?lldin is alive and willing to talk about the matter. A blond man with intense blue eyes and a tilted. Jonasson gave her an inquisitive glance and stopped in his tracks when he saw her desperate look. He had established that pattern as early as April. He looked at his laptop case.M. show him the document. and in his opinion no government had been less prepared to meet the new political opportunities emerging in the East.?? She put the address into the inside pocket of her jacket. S. ??It was an operational decision. but???? ??It struck me that there is so little background on him that it seems almost like a smokescreen. Salander suddenly gave her a cautious smile. The Russian defector who came to Sweden in 1976. He crossed the German border at Aachen and then took the Autobahn north towards Hamburg and on to Denmark.

The departing editor-in-chief. we??re going to write about what happened. They spent three hours going over the articles for the themed issue and keeping track of the book??s progress.?? ??Are you sure??? She nodded. Opposite Ekstr?m??s office was a conference room big enough for ten people. And get S?po??s annual reports as far back as you can find them. which at that time was a name used for all of north Africa west of Egypt. but did not doubt the truth of it. and for that Gullberg could breathe a sigh of relief. Rationally she understood it. but he says you??ll know what he means. He was pleased with the text. but when she got to the corner. It was only when he heard the details and studied Malm??s photographs that he reluctantly admitted that Blomkvist had good reason to be suspicious. Salander glanced at the digital clock on her bedside table.