| From Russia with Blood Lib/E: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West Contributor(s): Blake, Heidi (Author), Calin, Marisa (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1549121413 ISBN-13: 9781549121418 Publisher: Mulholland OUR PRICE: $90.89 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
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| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Espionage - True Crime | Organized Crime - Political Science | Intelligence & Espionage |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
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| Publisher Description: The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad-while Western spies watched in horror as their governments failed to guard against the threat They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England. They were wrong. One by one, the Russian oligarchs, dissidents, and gangsters who fled to Britain after Vladimir Putin came to power dropped dead in strange or suspicious circumstances. One by one, their British lawyers and fixers met similarly grisly ends. Yet, one by one, the British authorities shut down every investigation-and carried on courting the Kremlin.The spies in the riverside headquarters of MI6 looked on with horror as the scope of the Kremlin's global killing campaign became all too clear. And, across the Atlantic, American intelligence officials watched with mounting alarm as the bodies piled up, concerned that the tide of death could spread to the United States. Those fears intensified when a one-time Kremlin henchman was found bludgeoned to death in a Washington, D.C. penthouse. But it wasn't until Putin's assassins unleashed a deadly chemical weapon on the streets of Britain, endangering hundreds of members of the public in a failed attempt to slay the double agent Sergei Skripal, that Western governments were finally forced to admit that the killing had spun out of control.Unflinchingly documenting the growing web of death on British and American soil, Heidi Blake bravely exposes the Kremlin's assassination campaign as part of Putin's ruthless pursuit of global dominance-and reveals why Western governments have failed to stop the bloodshed. The unforgettable story that emerges whisks us from London's high-end night clubs to Miami's million-dollar hideouts, ultimately rendering a bone-chilling portrait of money, betrayal, and murder, written with the pace and propulsive power of a thriller.Based on a vast trove of unpublished documents, bags of discarded police evidence, and interviews with hundreds of insiders, this heart-stopping international investigation uncovers one of the most important- and terrifying-geopolitical stories of our time. |
Contributor Bio(s): Blake, Heidi: - Heidi Blake is Buzzfeed's UK Investigations Editor, overseeing a multi-award winning team of reporters. She was previously Assistant Editor of The Sunday Times, the co-author of The Ugly Game, and has won 18 national and international media awards including Scoop of the Year, Investigation of the Year, and the Paul Foot Award for Campaigning and Investigative Journalism. She was named Digital Journalist of 2016 by the London Press Club and ranked on the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 list of the most influential young media professionals in Europe. |