LEADER 02517nam 22003973 450 001 9910158617303321 005 20230810001626.0 010 $a1-101-97400-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000001010237 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6043001 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6043001 035 $a(OCoLC)1156166671 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001010237 100 $a20210901d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Very Expensive Poison $eThe Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West 210 1$a :$cKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017. 215 $a1 online resource (311 pages) 311 $a1-101-97399-4 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aOn 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. 607 $aRussia (Federation)$xPolitics and government$y21st century 676 $a327.1247 700 $aHarding$b Luke$01080560 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910158617303321 996 $aA Very Expensive Poison$92593793 997 $aUNINA