d drove a dark blue volvo. she referred to dotatioive appendix, ing photographs of the thirteen-year-old girl in the pa. the pictures had been taken in a hotel corridor in tallinn, and the man had his hahe girl’s sweater. salara the girl iion and she had provided her a tape.
the report had created precisely the chaos that armansky had wao avoid. first he had to s ulcer tablets prescribed by his do he the bre emergeing. fihe t’s fierce objes—he was forced to refer the material to the police. this meant that miltoy risked being drawn into a tangled web. if salander’s evidenot be substahe man was acquitted, the ight risk a libel suit. it was a nightmare.
however, it was h salaonishing laotional i most upset him. milton’s image was one of servative stability. salahis picture about as well as a buffalo at a boat show. armansky’s star researcher ale, anorexian who had hair as short as a fuse, and a pierose and eyebro tattoo about an in her tooed loop around the biceps of her left arm and another arou ahose os when she had beeank top, armansky also saw that she had a dragon tattoo o shoulder blade. she was a natural redhead, but she dyed her hair raven black. she looked as though she had just emerged from a week-ly with a gang of hard rockers.
she did not in fa eating disorder, armansky was sure of that. orary, she seemed to e every kind of junk food. she had simply been born thin, with sle made her look girlish and fih small hands, narrow wrists, and childlike breasts. she was twenty-four, but she sometimes looked fourteen.
she had a wide mouth, a small nose, and high es that gave her an almost asian look. her movements were quid spidery, and at the puter her fihe keys. her extreme slenderness would have made a modelling impossible, but with the right make-up her face could have put her on any billboard in the world. sometimes she sti spite of the tattoos and the pierose and eyebroell…attractive. it licable.
the fact that salander wan armansky at all was astonishi the sort of hom he would normally e into tact.
she had been hired as a jill-of-all-trades. hreired lawyer who looked after old j. f. milton’s personal affairs, had told armansky that this lisbeth salander was a quick-witted girl with “a rather trying attitude.” palmgreo him to give her a ce, whisky had, agaier judgement, promised to do. palmgreype of man who would only take “no” as an eo redouble his efforts, so it was easier to say “yes” right away. arma palmgreed himself to troubled kids and other social misfits, but he did have good judgement.
he had regretted his de tirl the mome her. she did not just seem diffi his eyes she was the very quintessence of difficult. she had dropped out of sd had nher edu.
the first few months she had worked full time, well, almost full time. she turhe offid then. she made coffee, we offid took care of the g, but al office hours or work routihema to her. oher haalent f the other employees. she be as “the girl with two brain e f aandialked about herself. colleagues who tried to talk tot a response and soon gave up. her attitude eher trust nor friendship, and she quickly be outsider wahe iltoray cat. she was generally sidered a hopeless case.
after a month of nothing but trouble, arma for her, fully io. she listeo his catalogue of her offe objed with an eyebrow. she did he “right attitude,” he d was about to tell her that it would probably be a good idea if she looked for employment with ahat ake better use of her skills. only theerrupt him.
“you know, if you just want an office serf you the temp agen hahing a, and if you doer use for me than s post, the.”
armansky sat there, stunned and angry, a ourbed.
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