Luke Harding
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Physical Desc
354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"December 2016. [the author] and former Moscow bureau chief, quietly meets former MI6 officer Christopher Steele in a London pub to discuss President-elect Donald Trump's Russia connections. A month later, Steele's now-famous dossier sparks what may be the biggest scandal of the modern era. The names of the Americans involved are well-known--Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, George Papadopoulos, Carter Page--but here [the author] also shines...
Author
Physical Desc
454 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
On November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died twenty-two days later. The cause of death? Polonium -- a rare, lethal, and highly radioactive substance. Here Luke Harding unspools a real-life political assassination story -- complete with KGB, CIA, MI6, and Russian mobsters. He shows how Litvinenko's murder foreshadowed the killings of other Kremlin critics, from Washington, DC, to Moscow,...