The shocking true story of the Litvinenko poisoning, told by the author of The Snowden Files and Wikileaks.
Luke Harding is an award-winning foreign correspondent with the Guardian. Between 2007 and 2011 he was the Guardian's Moscow bureau chief; the Kremlin expelled him from the country in the first case of its kind since the cold war. He is the author of Mafia State and co-author of WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, The Liar: The Fall of Jonathan Aitken (nominated for the Orwell Prize) and The Snowden Files. Two of Harding's books have been made into films; The Fifth Estate and Snowden.
"Extraordinarily pacy...one of the best political thrillers I have
come across in years." - "The Evening Standard
"
"Harding...tells this ghastly tale with real authority, wit, and
panache." - "The Times
""Impassioned...Harding paints deft portraits of the tragi-comic
duo suspected of carrying out the crime."" - The New Statesman
""Gripping." - "London Review of Books
""A Very Expensive Poison" reads like a John Le Carre spy novel,
but shockingly it's all true. Luke Harding has followed the
criminality of the Putin regime from Russia to the West and his
story leaves us with terrible feeling of dread about what Putin
will do next."- Bill Browder, author of"Red Notice"
""An expert chronicler of a sensational but opaque
crime...Enthralling." - A. D. Miller, author of "Snowdrops
""Harding lays out every fact connecting it in thrillerish detail
to the dark undercurrents of life in today's Russia." - Oliver
Bullough, author of "The Last Man in Russia"
"Horrific, instructive and, at times, hilarious. He is a masterful
storyteller and an impeccable researcher." - Federico Varese,
Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford"
"Extraordinarily pacy...one of the best political thrillers I have
come across in years." - The Evening Standard
"Harding...tells this ghastly tale with real authority, wit, and
panache." - The Times
"Impassioned...Harding paints deft portraits of the tragi-comic duo
suspected of carrying out the crime." - The New Statesman
"Gripping." - London Review of Books
"A Very Expensive Poison reads like a John Le Carre spy novel, but
shockingly it's all true. Luke Harding has followed the criminality
of the Putin regime from Russia to the West and his story leaves us
with terrible feeling of dread about what Putin will do next."-
Bill Browder, author ofRed Notice
"An expert chronicler of a sensational but opaque
crime...Enthralling." - A. D. Miller, author of Snowdrops
"Harding lays out every fact connecting it in thrillerish detail to
the dark undercurrents of life in today's Russia." - Oliver
Bullough, author of The Last Man in Russia
"Horrific, instructive and, at times, hilarious. He is a masterful
storyteller and an impeccable researcher." - Federico Varese,
Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford"
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