02517nam 22003973 450 991015861730332120230810001626.01-101-97400-1(CKB)3710000001010237(MiAaPQ)EBC6043001(Au-PeEL)EBL6043001(OCoLC)1156166671(EXLCZ)99371000000101023720210901d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA Very Expensive Poison The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West :Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,2017.©2017.1 online resource (311 pages)1-101-97399-4 Intro -- About the Author -- Other Titles -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue: The Men from Moscow -- 1. Mafia State -- 2. Journalist, Exile, Campaigner, Spy -- 3. First Deployment -- 4. The German Waiter -- 5. Murder in Mayfair -- 6. A Bit of a Puzzle -- 7. Ruslan and Lyudmila -- 8. An Inspector Calls -- 9. Death of an Oligarch -- 10. Gelsemium elegans -- 11. A Small Victorious War -- 12. The Inquiry -- 13. Leviathan -- 14. Blunt Force -- 15. The Man Who Solved His Own Murder -- A Note on Sources -- Acknowledgements and Photo Credits -- Illustrations.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, and how these are tied to Russia's current misadventures in Ukraine and Syria. In doing so, he becomes a target himself and unearths a chain of corruption and death leading straight to Vladimir Putin. From his investigations of the downing of flight MH17 to the Panama Papers, Harding sheds a terrifying light on Russia's fracturing relationship with the West.Russia (Federation)Politics and government21st century327.1247Harding Luke1080560MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910158617303321A Very Expensive Poison2593793UNINA