private level. But it was.P. No matter how many questions remained unanswered.

along with a video of a personal nature
along with a video of a personal nature. but I assure you it??s in no way illegal. Our work is less and less about identifying spies. But I??m beginning to suspect that this Zalachenko club is out of house.Saturday. She felt uneasy. ??First of all. She turned the computer off at once and shoved it under her pillow.?? ??And since she went into your building I assume that Milton has put in some sort of hidden surveillance of your flat. got the address and door code. who??s in the neighbouring rooms. He drank a glass of mineral water. Malm lowered the camera. but I have a big problem. But when the discussion was over. ??You should have the answer to that question quite soon. Blomkvist printed out the 220 pages of the manuscript that were finished. Since your apartment and mobile seem to be bugged and we have reason to be discreet.?? * Berger went to bed at 11.00. She changed the ring to silent and leaned back in her chair. ??Sure. He??s acting on an official request from S.P. the operations chief of the Section Hans von Rottinger. He did not want to do it at the hotel where he had been staying.

Edklinth nodded and the Minister of Justice poured coffee from a thermos jug. He had sent for the police and the Rescue Service. and other such drivel. no matter how many times she tried to block it. ??And the Zalachenko report is gone. the police will be alerted automatically. sharp-witted and charming. established cover companies outside the building in the ??50s and ??60s.?? ??Why did you become a police officer??? ??Because when I was seventeen a close friend of mine was mugged and raped in a car by three utter bastards. but he knew that he had one hell of a story. Blomkvist remembered having seen a pack of Pall Malls on the kitchen counter in Zalachenko??s house. the car was in the visitors?? car park. loose stride.?? She thought for a moment before she looked at him again.?? ??Who??? ??I don??t think he??s involved in the case. He became aware that his ears were ringing after the shot and he rubbed his left one with his free hand. It was parked on a side street 350 metres from the railway station. then Sweden was not one iota better than any dictatorship in the entire world. But that won??t work for the rest of us. you control the operation. The Minister of Justice. Do you understand??? ??Yes. then pay out as much as you want in bonuses.V. Could it really be possible??? ??I??m afraid it is. this is an extreme state of affairs.

?? ??I don??t doubt that. is a real problem here. key. Gullberg had spent his life on his majesty??s secret service.?? ??They always said that he was being handled in the customary way and that the information he provided was being processed through the appropriate channels. Have we alerted Malm???? ??Yes. and we??ll make you a proposal. and he has a very painful facial wound. ??Believe it or not. He spent two hours trying to locate the Swedish ambassador and made contact by telephone at around 9. It??s an invitation to abuse of power. Then her I. One advantage of working at Constitutional Protection was that she had authority to access almost any police report in Sweden that might have any connection to racially or politically motivated crimes. and you don??t have to produce an article at the end of it.?? Nystr?m said at last.I. But the investigation proceeded slowly. He visited her three times that evening and noted that her temperature had stabilized at 37. The Constitutional Protection Unit publishes an annual report.30 that evening. and he had heedlessly told her his real name ?C Zalachenko. in the hall. It did not bode well. It can only be someone at S. He chose first class and had the compartment to himself. He has a three-year-old daughter.

Niedermann must have bloodied his knuckles pretty badly during the beating.D. With exceptionally sensitive equipment the N. If this was the case.3. 10. I??ll see you on Monday. But more precisely. even if she had no say over the magazine??s contents. When the cleaner had finished in the corridor. but it??s almost unusable. It was the weapon he had used to disarm and disable Niedermann ?C not a straightforward matter with that giant of a man. But as yet I have no reason to believe that is the case. ??It??ll pass. No mention was made of Advokat Bjurman. she was going to have to get an accountant to help her.?? ??Very well written too. Her foot was hurting so badly that she could not put any weight on it. we??re caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. still relatively unsure in his role. It could be if someone is trying to break in or turns up in the garden or something like that. If this were the United States a dozen or so senior S?po hands would have been arrested for obstruction of justice and forced to appear before a public committee in Congress. If so. Neither chose to answer the telephone. Not at mine.M.

for example when we need to arrange a telephone tap or enter an apartment.?? Malm said. You all know our deadlines. have already done me in. Criminal Inspector.?? ??But how on earth did she handle Niedermann??? Blomkvist shrugged. I hate to say this.?? ??Yes. injure any vital areas. He made a call to his sister.?? ??I assume it came up during the interview???? ??Anders. took a folder from her desk and handed it to Giannini. He was taciturn but pleasant. But unlike the McDonald??s example.?? He clicked on an image on his computer and turned the screen towards Faste. I need his help to do a simple job. because that takes only a minute or so. and I won??t report it to the tax authorities. He needed the Budget chief and the Secretariat chief to create the hidden substructure. He was not looking at her. a madman. as far as his eyes could see. He was Inspector Bergling. No-one voiced any objections. For fifteen years he was protected. This right embraces all Swedish citizens.

Holm was off that day.?? ??That??s nice to hear. We??ve noticed it only because we??re specifically looking for it. He looked back at the clock. ??So the Zalachenko club is somewhere in this building. ??Now we know. and that over the years this conspiracy has committed what could be categorized as serious criminal acts. ??They met to discuss the forensic psychiatric report on Salander. and Holmberg wondered who did the sowing and harvesting. He took a pinch of snuff. He seemed to find it amusing to beat her just to provoke his minders in the Zalachenko group. Then he went to the hotel lobby and called Clinton??s mobile from the public telephone. I might be able to use some leverage if I need to. by the way. the woman had vanished without a trace.?? ??I know that. a government agency. but Figuerola harboured a deep scepticism about anyone who collected weapons on such a scale. ??Thanks.M. ??Focus on the information. reading books. make her way to his farm. one in Stockholm.?? He went back to her bedside and looked her in the eye..

??You don??t have much of a headache or any fever.??s administration. I think you surprised us all. walking into the hallway to keep a close eye on Bj?rck as he turned off the coffee machine and picked up his coat. If the pinkos want to start a war with Denmark. She went upstairs. That yielded better results. No matter what. told him that it was the most sensitive military secret Sweden possessed ?? that there was nothing in Swedish military intelligence that was anywhere near as important. ??Can I ask you what you think of Wadensj??.?? ??I intend to kill this story. eliminated all the men in the twenty-six to fifty-four age group who were married. Which must have been Edklinth. after all. so she couldn??t tell the rest of us. She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and pulled the electrodes off her arms and chest.?? said the detective responsible for Stallarholmen on behalf of the S?dert?lje police. has a huge amount of dead meat in the newsroom. She knew what I. It was 3. He went straight to his room and sat on the bed. She went downstairs to put on some coffee and for the first time since she had started at S. Finally. She resigned abruptly. also keeping one for himself.?? ??I??ve taken care of her since she was twelve.

??Child labour exists mostly in the textile and souvenir industries in Thailand. In due course the matter came to the attention of the Security Police.?? Nystr?m said. Blomkvist described him as an Olympic-class idiot.?? Edklinth took off his glasses and polished them thoroughly with paper napkin. Blomkvist spent the night at Salander??s apartment on Fiskargatan. Forged documents had never been his department or his expertise. however. He sat down again. I hired Niedermann as an assistant a number of years ago. but she became acquainted with a lawyer. But you didn??t see that??? ??No.?? ??Yes. diminished bodily function.M. if a group of police officers decided to stretch the laws so that an individual??s constitutionally guaranteed rights were infringed. The evening papers and a morning paper had reported a person being badly injured in a car fire on Lundagatan on the date in question in 1991. Good God. Thanks.?? ??Are you kidding??? ??No. This was enough for Figuerola??s team to initiate the preliminary investigation and to set about enquiring whether the robbers had a connection to the neo-Nazi gang in V?rmland.00 and discovered Blomkvist still asleep. ??Erika ???? ??Mikael. ??Hi. and it was 50/50 whether she would survive. ??Toilets.

where he used Salander??s keys to get in. ??No. I??ve also gone over every inch of your house from the basement to the attic and studied the area around it.M. This situation makes the Prime Minister both angry and uneasy. But I??m extremely worried about her mental state. what would you do with the golf clubs if an intruder had a gun? The key to good security is all about staying one step ahead of anyone who means you harm. lately on sick leave and now. could not afford to keep him as chairman. I want you to lock yourself in your bedroom and let me handle the situation. generally cleaned up. This isn??t the first time I??ve handled Top Secret information. of course. Figuerola noted the time. ??Evert Gullberg. Criminal Inspector. It??s on my desk. One of the first things he did was to have Blomkvist released from his handcuffs.00 p. You could take it for granted that the Security Police invariably made fools of themselves. but he had some paperwork to catch up on.?? ??So what should we do??? Bublanski said.00. Zalachenko. He got out at Birger Jarlsgatan at 10. and Vinge was a bureaucrat of the old school.

so Salander is in intensive care.?? ??How many in the Section are still here from my day??? ??Apart from me ?? only Otto Hallberg and Georg Nystr?m are still here.R. Those within the Zalachenko unit thought they had plenty of time before they had to plan his future. A mobile that was connected. of course they did.I. Do you know if she??s at headquarters??? ??I doubt it. Thanks for warning me. and the consequences are there for all to see today. I??ve already talked to Milton??s chief lawyer and he??s looking into it. He thought about it for two minutes. ??There??s always a choice.C. Blomkvist was not answering his telephone.?? ??No friend of yours. ??True. and they know that sooner or later I??m going to publish it. and living on Pontonj?rgatan in Kungsholmen. the police have been looking for Salander since Easter.T. we no longer have access to the report. She was a woman who people usually paid attention to.M.P. Blomkvist told him to position himself where he could photograph whoever got into the car.

If I were to make the decisions they would be different again. Who is he??? ??We have photographs.00 at the Ring in Central Station. Do you want to (a) Browse the Forum (b) Send a Message (c) Search the Archive (d) Talk (e) Get Laid?] She clicked on [(d) Talk] and then went to the menu selection [Who??s online?] and got a list with the names Andy.?? Blomkvist said to himself.?? ??Again. 27. The problem with Niedermann was that he had no friends. All except Figuerola shook their heads. Blomkvist did not speculate about Bjurman??s motives. There was a recess where a radio had been removed. He closed his iBook. Or did he? Blomkvist got up and went to the telephone.I.?? ??Why did Helena ask you to visit her??? ??Salander is starting to recover.?? ??How are you doing? Are you able to have a conversation??? ??I want to report a serious crime. Since they had been searching for me in vain for a while on behalf of Zalachenko and Niedermann.?? ??First name??? ??Fredrik. studied to become a police officer at twenty. It??s clear that there must have been financing. then pulled the forceps straight out. Now!?? When he heard the desperation in her voice he dug into his inside pocket and handed her his Motorola. Teleborian to the south.?? He grunted.?? ??It??s a small monitor.?? he said.

a relic from the Cold War.?? ??How do you know it was his room??? ??Well. whatever.?? ??That??s true.?? ??Henry. just as he was about to leave early. Plague. He took the lift up to the reception on the fourth floor and was immediately shown into a conference room. It was Gullberg who took up the thread. A promise he kept for more than six months before he turned up at Agneta Sofia Salander??s place and beat her so savagely that she ended up in a nursing home where she would be for the rest of her life.I. With infinite care he inserted a probe into the brain and enlarged the wound channel by a few millimetres.?? Sandberg said. He had never touched her. but it could have come about in a dozen different ways ?? for instance. and nobody else at S. I??m not a criminal defence lawyer. of course. He was advised that he alone had to make the decisions. ??Dr Jonasson??? ??Yes??? ??My name is Peter Teleborian. I have not killed any policeman.v Figuerola got up at 5. He saw me in my car on Bellmansgatan. ??Three weeks at S. He was living on a disability pension. some of it.

who arrived with flowers for Zalachenko minutes before the murder. Holmberg??s father was a city councillor for the Centre Party in the ??70s.?? ??That??s what Blomkvist at Millennium is evidently alleging. especially during the period when Blomkvist was serving a three-month sentence for libel and the magazine almost went under. The lawyer had her mobile pressed to her ear. but I have reason to suspect that I??m not the only one reading it. She was then placed with a foster family.?? Blomkvist sat in silence. He was only sixty-eight. He??s charming. What??s on your mind??? he said at last.P.N. She staggered to the door and turned to kick it with her heel. He had walked for only about ten minutes before he found a caf?? that served many unfamiliar types of coffee. I??m being paid a monthly salary of 88. unless she had a screwdriver and a ladder. And if need be you can always come to me or Christer. ??There are a few holes in your account. If we don??t have a source for something. ??Millennium is a monthly.?? Blomkvist had said. ??I have to confer with Bublanski. He looked around. He comes and goes as he pleases ?? I have nothing more to say about it. which reported to the police commission or the justice department.

G. ??Why the hell is it that the first thing Millennium does after I leave is to start running background checks on S. And he was inflexible..?? ??Quite a few people out. Hans von Rottinger. No Jonas. Isn??t there a friend you could stay with??? Berger thought for a moment about Blomkvist??s apartment but remembered that just now it was not such a good idea. She??s the one who has to decide what she is willing to tell you. By now resigned to his futility. grabbed the back of a chair and held on to it for a few seconds before he collapsed to the floor. What??s on your mind??? he said at last. We based a lot of our thinking on what he told us. ??Hans von Rottinger and Fredrik Clinton. He had only one. He landed in the spotlight when he shot dead some hooligan a couple of years ago. He had never before seen a psychiatrist land like a flying saucer and more or less demand to be given access to a patient. the man who murdered your officer tonight.?? ??If someone attacks me then the chances are that I do intend to bash in that person??s skull.?? ??You had a thing with Lisbeth Salander too. You can only do your best. I??m optimistic that you??ll make a full recovery.00 in the evening and Giannini did not usually appear this late. He was English and lived in London. There are sites on the Net that you can use to send anonymous mail.?? Edklinth said.

It will be my final issue. ??No. keeping her head bent so that the hand holding her telephone hid part of her face. That??s why S. And yet his liver.?? Modig said. Erlander glanced at Salander and then back to her lawyer. He could just as easily be white.?? ??Bjurman was an idiot. or who he might go to for protection. The sides of the van advertised Lars Faulsson Lock and Key Service ?C with a telephone number. The bleeding was so minor and located in an area that shouldn??t have affected anything else at all.?? Ekstr?m looked pleased. She is no longer part of the preliminary investigation so far as we??re concerned.?? ??How??s he doing??? ??He??s absolutely furious.?? Armansky sat down opposite Bublanski. he exploited his hold over them to the maximum. He told Paulsson he was an incompetent fool and yelled at him that Torstensson and Ingemarsson should fucking forget about untying Niedermann until they had called for back-up. ??Good evening. I??d really like to read the infamous report. Bublanski??s face clouded over. They went from room to room. ??You should start working out yourself.S. but was assistant chief of the Secret State Police in the late ??50s and early ??60s. I don??t want to say anything more about that until I talk to my lawyer.

Vinge??s view was not even controversial in the climate prevailing inside the Firm.M. Zalachenko admits that it??s his. Figuerola decided to leave her car behind and turned left in the direction of Slussen on Br?nnkyrkagatan.?? ??What did you do??? ??Well. and he could not sit still for more than an hour before the pain in his hip became unbearable. But that leads us to the second part ?C damage control. ??Dr Teleborian has been an external consultant for S.?? he said. she had been strapped down in a stimulus-free room at St Stefan??s. Henry.?? ??Tell me.?? ??I will if you come over. But he could not get into the room and he did not have the strength to force the door.VI The historian Diodorus from Sicily. was everything quiet again in her room. In his day plans of Kronan and Wasa had hung on the walls. a narrow-brimmed. of course. Who were his friends? Who had he been in prison with? Where does his girlfriend live? Who did he drink with? In what area was his mobile last used? Where is his vehicle? At the end of that sequence the fugitive would generally be found. It looks like the original.?? ??You??re from Uppsala.?? Figuerola said. reached for the glass. assistant chief of the Immigration Division of the Security Police. opening the message only if it was something that caught her attention.

?? Salander felt an icy chill run down her spine.P. Did she go there expressly to murder him ?C as the prosecutor claimed ?C or was it to make him listen to reason? When Giannini raised the subject of her former guardian. not for S?po alone but probably for intelligence services all over the world. Blomkvist could find no such enquiry in Ekstr?m??s email. ??I think it??s time we had another talk with Justice. ??If any of you need a little personal time. He looked at her dragon. He had called on his way to G?teborg. As the nurse was closing the door Salander glimpsed the guard on his chair out in the corridor.?? he said. But Millennium can??t be manipulated in the same straightforward way. But Nurse Agneta had noticed that Dr Jonasson had spent time with the patient who was under arrest and otherwise seemed withdrawn from the world.R. ??He played a key role in the Zalachenko affair. For a moment he stood indecisively outside the door. not news reporting.00.?? Blomkvist said in a tone that indicated he had scant trust in the Prime Minister??s assurances. But you??re going to owe me one. and even suggestions that the operation was altogether unnecessary. He was no longer a demon riding on her shoulder. Then he vanishes.?? Zalachenko said laboriously through clenched teeth. Borgsj? was a good man. In my considered view you??re precisely the lawyer she needs.

Has a shop at Norrtull.?? Gullberg said. have you ever wondered if the two of us aren??t completely nuts??? ??What do you mean??? ??It??s true for me. Nieminen called him twice on his mobile. she had assembled everything that could be found out about him in the public archives.?? ??Meanwhile.00 in the morning. who boxed with him. and he got to drink whisky at a discreet club in London with the chief of M. Salander fumbled with the clumsy stylus and wished she had a keyboard. So far. I didn??t want it to.?? Gullberg nodded. but that did not mean that he might not be living with someone. ??Find out which room she??s in. The men who conspired against Salander ?C he thought of them as the Zalachenko club ?C were inside the Security Police. stood a dark-haired woman with a digital camera filming M?rtensson and his companion.?? ??Listen.?? They spent the next two hours discussing their options. In every instance there??s good forensic evidence. came out to look at the damage.?? ??So that??s why I??m sending you back to your desk with a proposal for a new story. purchase of research material. She assumed that she really would need a lawyer.?? ??Tell me.?? ??I understand that.

a white polo neck. He explained in a low voice that. and that he had come to her room at 3. Then she stumbled up the stairs to the fifth floor and pounded on her friend??s door. he opened the door to the room next to Salander??s. you should set off the alarm. probably just after 3. She looked in the bathroom. Somebody must have made that decision. which was understood to be essential to the nation??s security. I??d really like to read the infamous report. We want to be sure that nobody??s holding a gun to your husband??s head or anything like that. 1989); An Assignment by Carl Lidbom (Wahlstr?m & Widstrand. Salander was lying on her back on the floor when Nurse Marianne came in.M.?? ??It doesn??t have to be a physical attack. he had decided that Millennium Publishing would publish Svensson??s text about sex trafficking. ??Phenomenally intelligent.??s personnel files. Third.?? ??Just like M?rtensson.?? When Blomkvist left Caf?? Copacabana next to the Kvarter cinema at Hornstull.B.?? ??And if that were the case.?? ??Yes.?? ??So how do we proceed??? Sp?ngberg wondered.

?? Erlander said.?? Then he added in English. They rejected marriage as subjugation. lined up the possibilities.S. He had first met Jonasson at a seminar in Stockholm fourteen years earlier and discovered that they were both fly-fishing enthusiasts. She put her police revolver in her shoulder bag and picked out a dark-red leather coat. building. but what I meant was that you pretended to know a lot more than you actually do. Start by reading the Bj?rck report.?? The challenge hung like a cloud over the table. Von Rottinger came originally from the military intelligence service and worked for several years in the office that coordinated military defence with the Security Police. and sat for three minutes staring at the blank screen. You make 112.?? ??That??s rubbish. I can pay part of her fee out of my own pocket. and into Gamla Stan. two from Eriksson. ??Why the hell is it that the first thing Millennium does after I leave is to start running background checks on S. Bates had taken more than 200 photographs of the community and created a gallery of small thumbnails. Gullberg was pleased as well. Gullberg assigned Bj?rck to babysit the defector almost around the clock. and carried him to the stool.?? ??I??ll come to your place at 8.O. By all known reckoning she should have been dead.

Eriksson??s office. Thank God. She had tested herself by going on the Net and picking out random H. You??re a terrific writer. he did learn Russian and Polish.?? Edklinth said. If you remember my name then you must have been more alert than I thought. I transferred to the foreign ministry and became a diplomat.?? Salander was aware of the smell of almonds and ethanol. Stage two is Millennium and Mikael Blomkvist. ??You??ll pull through. Salander summed up her situation in five lines. He had met Chief of Secretariat Albert Shenke at meetings and internal conferences on countless occasions. I get it. ??Christer will need a couple of days for the layout. Eriksson??s office. Asperger??s syndrome. The smoking ban at Millennium had soon been relaxed after Berger left. You and Magge take off on some fucking job we know nothing about. ??I don??t know.?? ??I see. It was as if everything outside the Section were sacred.?? ??Why did they pick me then??? Berger said. She could just see the back window of M?rtensson??s Volvo. He glanced down at her briefcase as the nurse checked Giannini??s I. ??Nieminen refuses to say anything about what happened.

?? When she hung up she called the office and left a message for Fredriksson. You met him down in G?teborg. He spent fifteen minutes walking down the alleys and boulevards around Mosebacke before he headed for Fiskargatan 9. In this photograph he was still with the Secret State Police.?? He got up and stood next to her to look through the glass at the newsroom.?? she said.?? ??I didn??t ask you to give special treatment to specific articles. As far as I understand it. Last time he turned up on the ward unannounced and tried to persuade a nurse to let him in.?? Figuerola said. He got out at Birger Jarlsgatan at 10. She wondered whether she ought to go into the city to spend the night at a hotel. Greeks. A third goes to salaries.B. When he was gone she stared at the ceiling. But I should point out that I myself am a former prosecutor. that will put the matter in a rather different light. And she wondered which big toe Blomkvist had been thinking with when he smuggled her a computer but forgot that she needed a mobile to connect to the Net. The second half will be everything that we know about the Section. It had also contributed a small part of its funding. First of all. But I??m going to report you for dereliction of duty and you won??t even know what hit you. whom he did not know. ??The Section?? was Francke??s idea. And he??s fifty-eight with six years to go before retirement.

But it??s absurd that you should think I would discuss it with a journalist. I??ve reminded you about this at least half a dozen times. sixty-five employees from within the Security Police had been dismissed from the organization on the grounds of presumed political unreliability. She picked up her mobile to call Fredriksson and explained that she had hurt herself. But he was still alive.U. And it would have to be done. especially in the leftist-radical ??70s when a number of constitutional blunders had certainly occurred. Blomkvist. She had done a risk assessment and pondered his plan.?? Erlander said. Cortez left the Academy bookshop running like a madman. and G.?? ??Thanks for being honest.?? ??That??s what Blomkvist at Millennium is evidently alleging. Response time would be about thirty minutes.?? said Sp?ngberg emphatically.?? Bublanski added the suggestion of a press conference out of sheer cussedness. ??Not a thing. With infinite care he inserted a probe into the brain and enlarged the wound channel by a few millimetres. As the situation developed.B. ??Teleborian meets with the Section and then goes directly to see Prosecutor Ekstr?m. The plane landed at Schiphol airport at 4. not 250 metres from the hotel room where he found himself today.?? she said with a satisfied smile.

Blomkvist had observed their comings and goings from his vantage point in Paulsson??s vehicle.?? Berger said. drank a cup of black coffee and ate a slice of wholemeal toast with cheese and a little marmalade on it. he said that she was lethally dangerous and might well resist arrest.?? ??I see. lost in thought.?? ??Armansky. Nieminen estimated that Svavelsj? M. Next to arrive was Inspector Paulsson. ??O. ??It just ended.000 kronor on the Salander story.?? Clinton shook his head again. She was too easily noticeable. I took it for granted that S?po knew what they were doing and had the appropriate routines and experience. On this law democracy stands or falls. Prosecutor Ekstr?m had begun.?? ??I??m sorry.00 on Saturday morning to the ringing of his telephone. That was why she was locked up. ??Borgsj? is coming in this afternoon and wants a meeting with you. The missing patrol car was found in Alings?s early this morning. He reached for his prosthesis stored in the cabinet next to his bed and attached it to the stump of his leg. ??You could turn out to be a bad habit. She was amazed to be still alive. My guess is that Faulsson opened the door and M?rtensson spent the time in Blomkvist??s apartment.

means invading your privacy ?C preferably with your approval. My relationship with Lisbeth is none of anyone??s business. and one was from the Violent Crimes Division. After an hour the headache had grown worse. You all know that. we will. As far as I understand it. all these questions depend on the decision you make in the next few minutes. He was still amazed that it had not been confiscated when Paulsson frisked him.?? ??A whole bunch of crimes.00 a. ??Then I??ll have to start by thanking you for coming to me with this matter as soon as you did. But I???? ??You left the material with Holm. Alias Falun.T. She drove to G?tgatan where the offices of Millennium were and spent the next half hour walking around the streets in the area. Morander was writing his editorial this morning. especially during the period when Blomkvist was serving a three-month sentence for libel and the magazine almost went under.?? ??And you never briefed your successor??? ??No. he would be obliged to take up the matter at least with the leaders of the other two parties in the coalition government. well someone did. She broke out in a big smile. Better to have him on the inside than a security risk on the outside. They don??t know that he??s my brother. then we will assist each other in finding solutions.K.

?? Janeryd nodded.?? ??Fair warning. Borgsj? was not much help. ??What decision do you think I should make??? ??I believe we have common interests. and this Niedermann that he hangs out with. But intelligence officers never really retire. He was without doubt a most competent news editor.M.?? He looked at her and mumbled something. A defector of Zalachenko??s status would have to be handled with the utmost secrecy. ran a hand through his thick blond hair. They were sitting at the same conference table at which Blomkvist had sat the day before. they would have at the very least questioned me. but Jesus. When he was finished with him. was to uncover and prevent threats to the internal security of the nation. Nieminen grimaced.m. train at Stockholm Central Station. Edklinth thought him taciturn. but this question does not. ??I??ve been told that you don??t generally communicate much with the authorities. In any case he had a penchant for civil disobedience on a private level. But it was.P. No matter how many questions remained unanswered.