ey. the was called ranath, and he leased to be made responsible for his employer’s snotty little heir. we left hamburg around 9:00 in the evening in late ju making our way out of the inner harbour when the air-raid sire off. a british bombing raid—the heaviest i had then experiehe harbour was, of course, the mai somehow we gh, and after an engine breakdown aht in miers we arrived the followi karlskrona. yoing to ask me ehe girl.”
“i think i know.”
“my father was uandably furious. i had put everything at risk with my idiotiture. and the girl could have beeed from sweden at a i was already just as hopelessly ih her as lobach had beeher. i proposed tave my father an ultimatum—either he aarriage or he’d have to look for aed ily business. he gave in.”
“but she died?”
“yes, far too young, in 1958. she had a ital heart defed it turhat i ’t have . and that’s why my brother hates me.”
“bearried her.”
“because—to use his own words—i married a filthy jewish whore.”
“but he’s insane.”
“i ’t have put it better myself.”
chapter 10
thursday, january 9-friday, january 31
ag to the hedestad courier, blomkvist’s first month out iry was the reer i least siime winter of 1942. after only a week in hedeby he had learned all about long underwear, woolly sod double us.
he had several miserable days in the middle of the moemperature dropped to -35°f. he had experiehi even during the year he spent in kiruna in lapland doing his military service.
the es froze. nilssowo big plastiers of water f and washing, but the cold aralysing. ied on the ihe windows, and no matter how much wood he put iove, he was still cold. he spent a long time each day splitting wood io the house.
at times he was on the brioyed with takirain heading south. instead he would put oer and i as he sat at the kit table, drinking d reading old police reports.
theher d the temperature rose steadily to a balmy 14°f.
mikael was begino know people ii his promise and invited him for a meal of moose steak. his lady friehem for dinner. eva was a warm, sod eaining woman. blomkvist fouraordinarily attractive. she was a dentist and lived i she spe martin’s home. blomkvist gradually learhey had kher for mahat they had n out together until they were middle-aged. evidently they saw o marry.
“she’s actually my dentist,” said martin with a laugh.
“and marrying into this crazy family ishing,” eva said, patting martiely on the knee.
martin vanger’s villa was furnished in black, white, ahere were expensive desig would have delighted the oisseur christer malm. the kit ed to a professioandard. in the living room there was a high-eh an impressive of jazz rey dorsey to johin vanger had money, and his home was both luxurious and funal. it ersowork on the rodud posters, of the sort fouhe bookshelves, at least i of the house that blomkvist saw, housed a swedish encyclopedia aable books that people might have given him as christmas presents, for waer idea. all in all, he could disly teartin vanger’s life: musid g. his 3,000 or so lps spoke for the oher could be dedu the faartin’s stomag over his belt.
the man himself was a mixture of simplicity, shrewdness, and amiability. it took ical skill to clude that the corporate an with problems. as they listeo “night in tunisia,” the versatioo the vanger artin made he fact that the pany was fighting for survival. he was ly aware that his guest orter whom he hardly k he discussed the internal problems of his pa it seemed reckless. perhaps he assumed that blomkvist was ohe family since he was w f
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