Chapters 3 through 7 Summary

It is a few days before Christmas, and Blomkvist and Berger are talking in the offices of Millennium magazine. He feels that he has gotten a raw deal with the verdict, and insists that the only way the magazine will survive is if he resigns. Berger disagrees, but since the magazine is already losing advertisers, she decides to go along with his plan.

Blomkvist and Berger met at a party 20 years earlier and immediately began sleeping together. Eventually both married others, but their continued sexual relationship eventually broke up his marriage, although her husband, artist Greger Beckman, accepts their relationship.

While the Millennium offices are closed for the Christmas holidays, Blomkvist goes in to clean out his office. While he is there, attorney Dirch Frode phones him and says he has a client who wants to hire him for a freelance...