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Hernán Cortés
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  • Blomkvist, Cortez, and Eriksson were named as the authors.†   (source)
  • But Cortez soon managed to find out Prosecutor Ekström's mobile phone number.†   (source)
  • Cortez had the weekend shift, and Blomkvist found him again in the office in the evening.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist looked Cortez straight in the eye.†   (source)
  • The front door slammed and Cortez stood in the doorway.†   (source)
  • There was a murmur of agreement from Cortez.†   (source)
  • He asked her to please—on overtime—hurry over to the pub as backup for Cortez.†   (source)
  • Cortez had called in to tell them that the police were now looking for a second unnamed woman.†   (source)
  • And Cortez was just a young whippersnapper.†   (source)
  • "The special issue is going to be called 'The Lisbeth Salander Story,' " Cortez said.†   (source)
  • Through the doorway he caught a glimpse of Cortez on his way to answer it.†   (source)
  • The union consisted of Eriksson, Lotta Karim, Cortez, Nilsson, and marketing chief Sonny Magnusson.†   (source)
  • "Ekström's holding a press conference at 3:00," Cortez said.†   (source)
  • Same contract as Henry Cortez and Lotta Karim are on.†   (source)
  • But he had sent a copy of Cortez's article and research to Borgsjö.†   (source)
  • "It's really quite simple," Cortez said.†   (source)
  • Cortez left smiling happily, on his way to see a new girlfriend.†   (source)
  • Cortez tugged on the gold ring in his ear-lobe.†   (source)
  • "Car," Blomkvist said, writing down the registration number Cortez read off to him.†   (source)
  • Then she saw Cortez putting on his corduroy jacket.†   (source)
  • Cortez was a good reporter, but he was way too inexperienced.†   (source)
  • Cortez left the Academy bookshop running like a madman.†   (source)
  • Cortez bought a job lot of Ericsson T10s for a song.†   (source)
  • He was about to call Cortez when the T10 rang in his hand.†   (source)
  • She took Cortez's folder with her and spent the next half hour reading through the whole story.†   (source)
  • The roster included himself, Cortez, Eriksson, and Malm.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist closed Cortez's research folder and pushed it away with distaste.†   (source)
  • Cortez had spent the morning making calls, piecing together what had happened overnight.†   (source)
  • Cortez was there within fifteen seconds.†   (source)
  • Eriksson and Cortez were Blomkvist's principal assistants for the Salander book.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist ran into Cortez at the entrance to the Millennium offices.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist told her the details of the story that Cortez had compiled.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist briefly explained what had happened and asked Cortez to pass the information to Erika.†   (source)
  • "That's an article written by a reporter named Henry Cortez.†   (source)
  • Cortez sat on the sofa in Eriksson's office looking guilty.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist was working with Eriksson and Cortez, and the rest of them were somehow excluded.†   (source)
  • Cortez stayed on the other side of the street.†   (source)
  • Cortez researched and wrote the article entirely on his own.†   (source)
  • He also noticed another odd thing: there was no bibliography in any of the books Cortez had found.†   (source)
  • Eriksson sounded as if she thought Cortez was pulling her leg.†   (source)
  • He mumbled something, made some coffee, and called Eriksson and Cortez into his office.†   (source)
  • Seconds later Blomkvist could also see Cortez.†   (source)
  • She sat on the edge of the bed and tried Cortez next and then Eriksson.†   (source)
  • "He's crossing Vasagatan, heading towards Kungsgatan," Cortez said into his mobile.†   (source)
  • Unlike Cortez, he knew how to handle his digital Nikon.†   (source)
  • Cortez would be in at 8:00 to take over.†   (source)
  • Cortez could not put his finger on what was wrong.†   (source)
  • Cortez had met Blomkvist's sister a few times, but he did not know her well.†   (source)
  • The other part-timer was the freelance reporter Lotta Karim, who had a contract similar to Cortez's and had just started back to work after her holiday.†   (source)
  • Cortez said.†   (source)
  • Cortez scratched his ear.†   (source)
  • Alfonso Cortez (born/September 22, 1944) Nearly blind from diabetes, the following was dictated by Alfonso to Virginia Faz, one of Cesar's daughters.†   (source)
  • Francisco was first, followed by Roberto Mendiola and Alfonso Cortez, two of the team's newest recruits.†   (source)
  • Jesus "Chuy" Contreras (born/February 23, 1945) I remember knowing Baltazar Charles and Alfonso Cortez a little bit before our Little League World Series Championship.†   (source)
  • The next morning, Alfonso Cortez and Roberto Mendiola found an old washing machine in one of the school buildings and did the team a great favor by washing all of their clothes.†   (source)
  • A few, like Enrique and Angel, could still play pretty well, but on the other end of the spectrum, Alfonso Cortez was slowly losing his eyesight from diabetes.†   (source)
  • Angel Macias Enrique Suarez Jose "Pepe" Maiz Norberto Villarreal Baltazar Charles Ricardo Trevino Rafael Estrello Fidel Ruiz Gerardo Gonzales Jesus "Chuy" Contreras Mario Ontiveros Roberto Mendiola Alfonso Cortez Francisco Aguilar 20.†   (source)
  • They were Angel Macias, Enrique Suarez, Baltazar Charles, Fidel Ruiz, Norberto Villarreal, Francisco Aguilar, Rafael Estrello, Jesus Contreras, Pepe Maiz, Gerardo Gonzales, Roberto Mendiola, Alfonso Cortez, Mario Ontiveros and Ricardo Trevino.†   (source)
  • Cortez looked so shaken that Berger got up and gave him a hug and asked him to join them at the table.†   (source)
  • Cortez and Karim had helped out, but they were primarily writers and researchers, and not used to editing.†   (source)
  • Cortez had come in to deal with telephone messages for a few hours, but Blomkvist sent him home since nobody was calling.†   (source)
  • Cortez had his hand on the receiver.†   (source)
  • Modig then drew up a confiscation inventory, and Cortez helped her carry the cardboard boxes down to her car.†   (source)
  • Apart from Berger, the meeting included the managing editor, Malin Eriksson, partner and art director Christer Malm, the reporter Monika Nilsson, and part-timers Lotta Karim and Henry Cortez.†   (source)
  • Cortez had missed the commotion on Lundagatan for the simple reason that he had been standing outside the police press office at Kungsholmen the whole time, from which no news had been released since the press conference earlier that afternoon.†   (source)
  • Berger proposed, and it was agreed, that 1 million be set aside as a fund against future crises; that 250,000 kronor be reserved for capital investments, such as new computers and other equipment, and repairs at the editorial offices; and that 300,000 kronor be earmarked for salary increases and to allow them to offer Cortez a full-time contract.†   (source)
  • Cortez now kept an ashtray on his desk.†   (source)
  • Cortez frowned and followed Berger with his gaze as she cut across the hall from her office to the kitchenette.†   (source)
  • Cortez came to life and began to clap.†   (source)
  • He opened his mobile and called Cortez.†   (source)
  • As Martensson was being led through the front door of the building, Cortez took a series of twenty-two photographs with his Nikon.†   (source)
  • He saw that he had missed a number of calls in the past twenty-four hours: three from Cortez, two from Eriksson, and several from Berger.†   (source)
  • He had thought about asking Cortez or someone else to rent a car for him, but that too would leave a trace.†   (source)
  • He was still at Millennium, where he was searching for information about Zalachenko's murderer with Cortez and Eriksson.†   (source)
  • "We've confirmed that Blomkvist and Eriksson and this Cortez fellow are pretty downcast on the whole.†   (source)
  • First he called Cortez, who was in a café in Vasastad and had a few details to discuss, nothing urgent.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist gave Cortez a sharp look.†   (source)
  • She wondered where she had put Cortez's file on Borgsjö and Vitavara Inc. She got up, put on her bathrobe, and leaned on a crutch.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist was not answering his phone, but from a number of sources Cortez had a fairly clear picture of the events of the night before.†   (source)
  • "Ask Malin," Cortez said, and was gone.†   (source)
  • "That's pretty vague," Cortez said.†   (source)
  • Cortez wrote feverishly, trying to get down every word that was said from the podium at the police press office at Kungsholmen.†   (source)
  • Berger began by explaining how the Cortez folder had come to her, and what consequences it had already had.†   (source)
  • One of the first things Blomkvist did when he realized that his mobile was bugged was to send Cortez out to buy some used handsets.†   (source)
  • Cortez put down the phone and drummed so loudly with his fingertips on the edge of his desk that Nilsson glared at him.†   (source)
  • As he ran he called Cortez on his T10.†   (source)
  • After Cortez left, Blomkvist got out his anonymous mobile and called Daniel Olsson, a freelance journalist in Göteborg.†   (source)
  • Cortez was silent for a long while.†   (source)
  • Borgsjö would naturally claim that he did not know about the conditions at Fong Soo, but Cortez had solid evidence.†   (source)
  • "Nothing special," Cortez said.†   (source)
  • It was not until Wednesday night, almost two weeks after Blomkvist had given her Cortez's research papers on Borgsjö, that she had time to address the issue.†   (source)
  • A smile spread over Cortez's face.†   (source)
  • It was 4:20 before Cortez called.†   (source)
  • Various assignments had been given to Cortez and Eriksson, who were to produce articles on the history of the Security Police, the IB affair,* and the like.†   (source)
  • "Facing south," Cortez reported.†   (source)
  • "We have a problem," Cortez said.†   (source)
  • On Monday he had begun his research by sending Cortez to the secondhand bookshops on Södermalm, to buy every book which in any way dealt with the Security Police.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist then opened some anonymous cash-card accounts on Comviq and distributed the mobiles to Eriksson, Cortez, Giannini, Malm, and Armansky, keeping one for himself.†   (source)
  • Cortez has an iron-clad story.†   (source)
  • He glanced at Cortez and Karim.†   (source)
  • Nor Cortez for that matter.†   (source)
  • "Toilets," Cortez repeated.†   (source)
  • "Jesus Christ," Cortez said.†   (source)
  • Cortez had demonstrated that in 2001, the UN commission on child labour had added Fong Soo Industries to its list of companies that exploit child labour, and that this had then been the subject of magazine articles.†   (source)
  • She knew that Blomkvist was doing a lot of whispering with Cortez and Eriksson and Malm about the Salander story, while she and Karim were expected to do all the grunt work for the next issue of a magazine that hadn't had any real leadership since Berger left.†   (source)
  • She had called in Mikael Blomkvist, Malin Eriksson, Henry Cortez, Christer Malm, Advokat Giannini, Dragan Armansky, and Susanne Linder, and she had herself gone to visit Lisbeth Salander's former guardian Holger Palmgren.†   (source)
  • "Not so," Cortez said.†   (source)
  • Cortez said.†   (source)
  • Cortez exhaled in relief.†   (source)
  • Cortez said.†   (source)
  • Then he called Cortez.†   (source)
  • Cortez had come to his apartment in the afternoon with six books: Espionage in Sweden by Mikael Rosquist (Tempus, 1988); Säpo Chief 1962–1970 by P. G. Vinge (Wahlström Widstrand, 1988); Secret Forces by Jan Ottosson and Lars Magnusson (Tiden, 1991); Power Struggle for Säpo by Erik Magnusson (Corona, 1989); An Assignment by Carl Lidbom (Wahlström Widstrand, 1990); and—somewhat surprisingly—An Agent in Place by Thomas Whiteside (Viking, 1966), which dealt with the Wennerström affair.†   (source)
  • "Vietnam," Cortez said.†   (source)
  • Cortez.†   (source)
  • He happened to read the registration number, which began with KAB, and he paid attention because those were the initials of Zalachenko's holding company, Karl Axel Bodin Inc. He would not have thought any more about it except that he spotted the car again a few hours later when he was having lunch with Cortez and Eriksson at Medborgarplatsen.†   (source)
  • Cortez said.†   (source)
  • "Nonsense," Cortez said.†   (source)
  • Henry Cortez answered.†   (source)
  • Do you remember what happened to Mexico when Cortez and his very fine good friends arrived from Spain?†   (source)
  • They always muck you instead, from Cortez and Menendez de Avila down to Miaja.†   (source)
  • The class of power, the working heroes, the Cortez,[402] the Nelson,[403] the Napoleon, see that this is the festivity and permanent celebration of such as they; that fashion is funded talent; is Mexico,[404] Marengo,[405] and Trafalgar[406][407] beaten out thin; that the brilliant names of fashion run back to just such busy names as their own, fifty or sixty years ago.†   (source)
  • It came into my mind in the nick of time, how Columbus, or Cortez, or one of those people, played an eclipse as a saving trump once, on some savages, and I saw my chance.†   (source)
  • He was the direct, sole heir to these treasures wrested from the Incas and those peoples conquered by Hernando Cortez!†   (source)
  • But I doubt whether our conquests in the countries I treat of would be as easy as those of Ferdinando Cortez over the naked Americans.†   (source)
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