“A tale that's without delay real-life mystery and an immensely sinister cautionary story concerning the new Russia.” –Star Tribune
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium lodge. Hours later the Russian émigré and previous intelligence officer, who was once sharply severe of Russian president Vladimir Putin, fell in poor health and inside days was once rushed to the clinic. Fatally poisoned through a unprecedented radioactive isotope slipped into his drink, Litvinenko issued a dramatic deathbed assertion accusing Putin himself of engineering his murder. Alan S. Cowell, then London Bureau leader of the manhattan Times who coated the tale from its inception, has written the definitive tale of this assassination and of the profound foreign implications of this primary act of nuclear terrorism.
“Absorbing.” –New York Times
“Cowell performs out the Byzantine percentages in the back of this killing with heroic clarity.” –Los Angeles Times
“Doggedly said and dramatically written . . . Cowell tells the tale with literary panache yet doesn’t enable his trendy prose eclipse the substance of a sordid story. The sections approximately espionage and the assassination are helpful of Tom Clancy, however the author’s political research is both riveting . . . A well-told true-crime story combined with professional political/historical analysis.”
–Kirkus Reviews
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Later, the U.S. may include such former KGB luminaries as Oleg Kalugin, who turned an American citizen in 2003 after serving through the chilly battle as the most senior Soviet brokers within the usa. yet there has been no such welcome for an errant FSB lieutenant colonel along with his spouse and son in tow in Ankara in October 2000. once the americans became him down, Litvinenko’s place turned much more precarious. His disguise used to be frail, and his illicit presence in Turkey used to be recognized. it will possibly no longer stay mystery for lengthy. back, they sensed, it used to be time to escape. The Russians packed and loaded their baggage into the trunk of a condo motor vehicle within the hotel’s underground storage. Fearing that adversarial brokers have been last on them, they sped off into the coolness October evening at 1:30 a. m. From Ankara, the street to Istanbul first ran north then grew to become west at Gerede, a ribbon of four-lane asphalt unfolding around the bald Anatolian uplands, hiking to 3 thousand toes at the Fakilar go prior to narrowing at Bolu at the lip of an escarpment dealing with west. There the line started to fill with truck and motor vehicle site visitors because it approached Istanbul throughout the hardscrabble cities of Duzce and Adapazari and Kocaeli, skirting ultimately alongside the ocean of Marmara. For years Istanbul’s city sprawl had unfold with liquid ease, spilling eastward from the Bosporus strait simply because the proliferation of condominium homes and highways had reworked the panorama at the western shore right into a tangle of concrete. For the Russians, the adventure used to be fraught with fear. The fog closed in on them. They acquired misplaced at the methods to the town and its hovering bridges over the waters of the Bosporus—the traditional geographic frontier among East and West, Asia and Europe. should you visited town on holiday by way of aircraft or cruise send, outdated Istanbul used to be one of many world’s so much unique locations, its roots stretching deep into Byzantium earlier than the Muslim conquest via the Ottoman Turks in 1453. It used to be a spot stuck up in its personal heritage of trade and empire. right here the visitor may possibly find the leftovers of the city’s previous as its soul replaced with the centuries—residual minorities of Jews and Armenian Christians; the patriarchate of the Orthodox Church; the Basilica of Saint Sophia, as soon as the most important cathedral in Christendom and later Istanbul’s significant mosque until eventually it grew to become a museum in 1935. Now the city’s numerous minarets stitched the sky to the tumble of alleyways and balconied villas round the gold and carpet proprietors of the Grand Bazaar and the stately gardens of the Blue Mosque. The Golden Horn waterway divided the relatively outdated portion of the previous Ottoman capital from the more recent components round Istiklal Caddesi, the place tourists at the Orient show as soon as paused on their eastward trips within the luxurious of the Pera Palas inn. That was once the Istanbul the travelers got here to work out. For the small crew of Russians, although, the one half that counted was once the airport. As they labored on an break out plan, they took rooms on the Hilton—an upscale watering gap via any criteria, most likely paid for by means of Berezovsky—where their papers could in all likelihood be tested and registered on the check-in table for next, regimen scrutiny via the police and immigration gurus.