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CHAPTER 29
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Saturday, November 1–Tuesday, November 25
Salander was surfing through Wennerstr?m’s cyber-empire. She had been staring at her computer screen for almost eleven hours. The idea that had materialised in some unexplored nook of her brain during the last week at Sandhamn had grown into a manic preoccupation. For four weeks she had isolated1 herself in her apartment and ignored any communication from Armansky. She had spent twelve hours a day in front of her computer, some days more, and the rest of her waking hours she had brooded over the same problem.
During the past month she had had intermittent2 contact with Blomkvist. He too was preoccupied3, busy at the Millennium4 offices. They had conferred by telephone a couple of times each week, and she had kept him updated on Wennerstr?m’s correspondence and other activities.
For the hundredth time she went over every detail. She was not afraid that she had missed anything, but she was not sure that she had understood how every one of the intricate connections fitted together.
This much-discussed empire was like a living, formless, pulsating5 organism that kept changing shape. It consisted of options, bonds, shares, partnerships6, loan interest, income interest, deposits, bank accounts, payment transfers, and thousands of other elements. An incredibly large proportion of the assets was deposited in post-office-box companies that owned one another.
The financial pundits’ most inflated8 analyses of the Wennerstr?m Group estimated its value at more than 900 billion kronor. That was a bluff9, or at least a figure that was grossly exaggerated. Obviously Wennerstr?m himself was by no means poor. She calculated the real assets to be worth between 90 and 100 billion kronor, which was nothing to sneez eat. A thorough
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portfolio
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