A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West
by:
Luke Harding (author)
1 November 2006. Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. Twenty two days later he dies, killed from the inside. The poison? Polonium; a rare, lethal and highly radioactive substance. His crime? He had made some powerful enemies in Russia.Based on the best part of a decade's...
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1 November 2006. Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. Twenty two days later he dies, killed from the inside. The poison? Polonium; a rare, lethal and highly radioactive substance. His crime? He had made some powerful enemies in Russia.Based on the best part of a decade's reporting, as well as extensive interviews with those closest to the events (in
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781101973998 (1101973994)
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
If you watched the adoration of Putin last year by a certain orange tinged president, this book will make it even worse.This does not mean to say that the other world leaders come off much better, but if you needed reason beside election influence and the Crimea to blackball Russia, this book presen...