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A Very Expensive Poison The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin s War with the WestDescription
A true story of murder and conspiracy that points directly to Vladimir Putin, by The Guardians former Moscow bureau chief.On November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died twenty-two days later. The cause of death? Poloniuma rare, lethal, and highly radioactive substance. Here Luke Harding unspools a real-life political assassination storycomplete with KGB, CIA, MI6, and Russian mobsters. He shows how Litvinenkos murder foreshadowed the killings of other Kremlin critics, from Washington, DC, to Moscow, and how these are tied to Russias current misadventures in Ukraine and Syria. In doing so, he becomes a target himself and unearths a chain of corruption and death leading straight to Vladimir Putin. From his investigations of the downing of flight MH17 to the Panama Papers, Harding sheds a terrifying light on Russias fracturing relationship with the West.