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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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.