onthly magazih a print run of 21,000, manufag costs, salaries, distribution, offieed revenues of about 10 million. i think hat perount has to advertising revenue.”
“so?”
“so frier?m is a vengeful and narrow-miard who isn’t going tet his reps in a hurry. how maisers have you lost i six months?”
berger regarded vah a ression. blomkvist caught himself holdihose os whehe old man had tou the future of millennium, it had always ed annoying remarks aziioo blomkvist’s ability to finish his work i vanger was n erika alowee blomkvist ot i, which might have had to do with the fact that he - norrland and she er-class girl with a distiernational family tree.
“could i have a little more coffee?” berger asked. vanger poured her a ce. “ok, you’ve done your homework. we’re bleeding.”
“how long?”
“we’ve got six months to turn ourselves arouhs, max. we don’t have enough capital to keep ourselves afloat lohat.”
the old man’s expression was iared out of the window. the church was still standing there.
“did you know that i was ohe neer business?” he said, once m them both.
blomkvist ah shook their heads. vanger laughed again, ruefully.
“we owned six daily neers in norrland. that was ba the fifties a was my father’s idea—he thought it might be politically advao have a seedia behiually still ohe owhe hedestad cer is the of the broup of owners. harald’s son,” he added, for blomkvist’s be.
“and also a local politikvist said.
“martin is ooo. he keeps birger in line.”
“why did you let go of the neers you owned?” blomkvist asked.
“corporate restru the sixties. publishing neers was in some ways more a hobby tha. wheighte, it was o assets that we sold. but i know what it takes to run a publiay i ask you a persoion?”
this was directed at erika.
“i haven’t asked mikael about this, and if you don’t want to answer, you doo. i’d like to know how you ehis quagmire. did you have a story or didn’t you?”
now it was blomkvist’s turn to look inscrutable. berger hesitated only a sed before she said: “we had a story. but it was a very different story.”
vanger nodded, as if he uood precisely what berger was saying. blomkvist did not.
“i don’t want to discuss the matter.” blomkvist cut the dis short. “i did the researd wrote the article. i had all the soureeded. but then it all went to hell.”
“you had sources for every last thing you wrote?”
“i did.”
vanger’s voice was suddenly sharp. “i woo uand how the hell you could walk into suefield. i ’t recall a similar story except perhaps the lundahl affair ihe sixties, if you youngsters have ever heard of it. was your souraniac?” he shook his head aer and said quietly, “i’ve been a neublisher i, and i e again. what would you say to taking oner?”
the question came like a bolt out of the blue, but berger did he least bit surprised.
“tell me more,” she said.
vanger said: “how loayiad?”
“i’m goiomorrow.”
“would you sider—you and mikael, of an old man by joining me fht? would 7:00 suit?”
“that would suit us fine. we’d love it. but you’re he question i asked. why would you waner in millennium?”
“i’m not avoidiion. i just thought we could discuss it over dinner. i have to talk with my lawyer before i put together a crete offer. but in all simpli say that i have moo ihe magaziarts making a profit again, then i’ll e out ahead. if not—well, i’ve had signifitly bigger losses in my day.”
blomkvist was about to open his mouth whe her hand on his knee.
“mikael a hard so that we could be pletely i.”
“nonsense. no-one is pletely i i’m not out to take azine, and i don’t give a damn about the ts. that bastard ste all sorts of points for publishiimes, so why ’t i baium? ens to be an
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