Download A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West AudioBook Free
On November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died 22 days and nights later. The reason for death? Polonium - a exceptional, lethal, and highly radioactive chemical. Here Luke Harding unspools a real-life politics 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, and exactly how these are linked with Russia's current misadventures in Ukraine and Syria. In doing this he becomes a focus on himself and unearths a chain of problem and death leading straight to Vladimir Putin. From his investigations of the downing of journey MH17 to the Panama Documents, Harding sheds a terrifying light on Russia's fracturing romantic relationship with the Western.
