The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

Author:Stieg Larsson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest

CHAPTER 16

Friday, 27.v - Tuesday, 31.v

Blomkvist left the Millennium offices at 10.30 on Friday night. He took the stairs down to the ground floor, but instead of going out on to the street he turned left and went through the basement, across the inner courtyard, and through the building behind theirs on to Hokens Gata. He ran into a group of youths on their way from Mosebacke, but saw no- one who seemed to be paying him any attention. Anyone watching the building would think that he was spending the night at Millennium, as he often did. He had established that pattern as early as April. Actually it was Malm who had the night shift.

He spent fifteen minutes walking down the alleys and boulevards around Mosebacke before he headed for Fiskargatan 9. He opened the entrance door using the code and took the stairs to the top- floor apartment, where he used Salander's keys to get in. He turned off the alarm. He always felt a bit bemused when he went into the apartment: twenty- one rooms, of which only three were furnished.

He began by making coffee and sandwiches before he went into Salander's office and booted up her PowerBook.

From the moment in mid- April when Bjorck's report was stolen and Blomkvist realized that he was under surveillance, he had established his own headquarters at Salander's apartment. He had transferred the most crucial documentation to her desk. He spent several nights a week at the apartment, slept in her bed, and worked on her computer. She had wiped her hard drive clean before she left for Gosseberga and the confrontation with Zalachenko. Blomkvist supposed that she had not planned to come back. He had used her system disks to restore her computer to a functioning state.

Since April he had not even plugged in the broadband cable to his own machine. He logged on to her broadband connection, started up the I.C.Q. chat program, and pinged up the address she had created for him through the Yahoo group [Idiotic_Table].

<Hi Sally.>

<Talk to me.>

<I've been working on the two chapters we discussed earlier this week. New version is on Yahoo. How's it going with you?>

<Finished with 17 pages. Uploading now.>

Ping.

<O.K. Got 'em. Let me read, then we'll talk later.>

<I've got more.>

<More what?>

<I created another Yahoo group called The_Knights.>

Blomkvist smiled.

< The Knights of the Idiotic Table.>

<Password yacaraca12.>

<Four members. You, me, Plague and Trinity.>

<Your mysterious night- time buddies.>

<Protection.>

<O.K.>

<Plague has copied info from Prosecutor Ekstrom's computer. We hacked it in April. If I lose the Palm he'll keep you informed.>

<Good. Thanks.>

Blomkvist logged in to I.C.Q. and went into the newly created Yahoo group [The_Knights]. All he found was a link from Plague to an anonymous U.R.L. which consisted solely of numbers. He copied the address into Explorer, hit the return key, and came to a website somewhere on the Internet that contained the sixteen gigabytes of Ekstrom's hard drive.

Plague had obviously made it simple for himself by copying over Ekstrom's entire hard drive, and Blomkvist spent more than an hour sorting through its contents.

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