Fountaindale Public Library

A very expensive poison, the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's war with the West, Luke Harding

eng

individual biography

illustrations

index present

non fiction

A very expensive poison

dictionaries

970036872

Luke Harding

the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's war with the West

A real-life political assassination story-complete with KGB, CIA, MI5, and Russian mobsters-that reverberates from the streets of London to the deadly halls of today's Kremlin. A Vintage Original. On November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died twenty-two days later. The cause of death was Polonium-a rare, lethal, and highly radioactive substance. This is the inside story of the life and death of Litvinenko. And it is the story of the aftermath: a decade of geopolitical disruptions still felt today. In A Very Expensive Poison, Luke Harding guides readers through a maze of spies, intrigue, organized crime, and political power players to uncover the truth about Litvinenko's murder. In doing so, not only does he also become a target, but he also unearths a chain of corruption and death leading straight to Vladimir Putin, which sheds terrifying light on Russia's secret war with the WestTells the story of the 2006 assassination of Alexander Litvinenko by the rare poison Polonium, how his murder foreshadowed those of other critics of the Russian government, and what they had to do with Russia's actions in Ukraine and Syria

Prologue. The men from Moscow -- Mafia state -- Journalist, exile, campaigner, spy -- First deployment -- The German waiter -- Murder in Mayfair -- A bit of a puzzle -- Ruslan and Lyudmila -- An inspector calls -- Death of a oligarch -- Gelsemium elegans -- A small victorious war -- The inquiry -- Leviathan -- Blunt force -- The man who solved his own murder

adult