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

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Summary: 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 &#x; a rare, lethal, and highly radioactive substance. Here Luke Harding unspools a real-life political assassination story &#x; complete with KGB, CIA, MI6, and Russian mobsters. He shows how Litvinenko&#x;s murder foreshadowed the killings of other Kremlin critics, from Washington, DC, to Moscow, and how these are tied to Russia&#x;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&#x;s fracturing relationship with the West