As Alexander Litvinenko's condition worsened, however, and he was transferred to hospital and placed under armed guard, the story took a sinister turn. On 23 November 2006, Litvinenko died, apparently from polonium-210 radiation poisoning.

Such an obvious thing was suddenly discovered by a simple old man from Milwaukee, and he’s got a point there. This book is about the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, whose legal case seems to many people like open-and-shut.

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Strikingly written and based on Litvinenko’s 20 years of insider’s knowledge of Russian spy campaigns, Blowing up Russia describes how the successor of the KGB fabricated terrorist attacks and launched war to have the unknown Putin - ...

This is a war that has blown hot and cold for over seven years; a war that has pitted some of Russia’s strongest, richest men against the most powerful president Russia has had since Josef Stalin.

“A riveting look at today’s Russia under the leadership of Vladimir Putin.”—The Kingston Observer In Putin’s Labyrinth, acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived in and reported from the former Soviet Union for more than a ...

This edition was published to coincide with the World Premiere at the Old Vic Theatre, London, in 2019.

But what really happened? What did Litvinenko know? And why was he killed? The full story of Litvinenko's life and death is one that the Kremlin does not want told.

Alan S. Cowell, former London Bureau Chief of the New York Times, has written the definitive story of this assassination and the profound international implications of this first act of nuclear terrorism.

The first book-length account of the radiation poisoning murder of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-KGB officer who turned against the Kremlin and fled Moscow. Includes 8-page photo insert.