The Beast by Anders Roslund; Börge Hellström
Author:Anders Roslund; Börge Hellström
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-12-30T00:00:00+00:00
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They had argued afterwards. Their voices rose, the arguments crossed each other, but it was a confrontation in which compassion won out. Now they were close to an agreement.
'It's not that I'm breaking the law, because strictly speaking I'm not. But I am trampling on what I believed our friendship to be, breaking its rules.'
'Not at all.'
'How can you say that? If I help you find personal data on the man who killed your child, then I'm doing the one thing for you that I shouldn't.'
'Only this. It's all I need.'
'You're on a slippery slope, very much so.'
'Stop debating issues, for Christ's sake. Just help me.'
Vincent stood for a moment, to signal what he'd prefer to do. Then he sat down again and switched on the nearest computer.
'Now what?'
'What?'
'What's the fucking data you want?'
'I want everything. Everything you can find.'
Incoming e-mails were stacking on the screen, on top of the morning schedules. Vincent moved the lot, found the right dialogue box, keyed in a name and a password, and the database homepage flickered into life. A list of links to other databases. Company Register, Trade and Trade Associations Register, Swedish Business Information Service, Automobile Register, Address Register, Property Register.
'The number. You had it, his ID number.'
'640517-0350.'
The screen flickered. It was a hit.
'Let's go. You want to know where he has stayed?'
The morning sun had reached the glazed wall of the office. The still air grew warm.
'Is it OK to open the window? It's getting hard to breathe.'
'Go ahead.'
Fredrik rose and opened two of the windows wide. He hadn't realised how the light-coloured suit had made him sweat. He breathed in deeply, once, twice. Vincent's arm went up in the air.
'Bernt Asmodeus Lund. The last entry is a care-of address.'
'And?'
'Care of HÃ¥kan Axelsson, Skeppar Street 12. Somewhere in Ãstermalm. But it's from quite a few years ago; presumably Lund has been kept locked up since then. Otherwise, nothing. Skeppar Street is the last on record.'
Fredrik stood behind Vincent now, his back still aching from sleeping jammed into the car. The fresh air felt good, though.
'What about earlier addresses?'
'There are two. First, going back in time, Kung Street 3, in Enköping, and before that, Nelson Lane, Piteå.'
'Is that all?'
'Everything that's recorded here. If you want older addresses still, you've got to contact the tax office in Piteå.'
'Fine, that's enough for now. But there must be more facts. I want all the facts.'
Fredrik kept his place behind Vincent for nearly an hour, making notes on the flimsy in-house stationery. He had found a pad on the desk with the packet of cigarettes.
Bernt Lund had been registered as the owner of a property in Vetlanda, a block of flats in a remarkably high taxation band at an address in the outskirts of the small town.
The business transaction data included a long list of unpaid debts. His Inland Revenue account was in the red and he had failed to pay his state education loans. Several attempts to recover his assets had been made and failed.
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