A very expensive poison : the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's war with the West /

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, CI...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harding, Luke, 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.