The Litvinenko File

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Oil 7 Dcccinbcr 2006, in a 1 lighgatc Ck-mctcry drciiched with i.ondon rain, a liiissian was buried wirliin a stone's throw of the grave of Karl Marx. I le was Alexander Litvinenko, Sasha to his friends, a boy from the deep Russian provinces who ro.se through the ranks of the world's most feared security service. Litvinenko was the man who denounced murder and corruption in the Russian government, fled from the wrath of the Kremlin, came to London and took the shilling of Mo.scow's avowed enemy Now he was a martyr, condemned by foes unknown to an agonized death in a hospital bed thousands of miles from home.
Martin Sixsmith draws on his long experience as the BBC's Moscow correspondent, and contact with the key London-based Russians, to dissect Alexander Litvinenko's murder. Myriad theories have been put forward since he died, but the story goes back to 2000 when hostilities were declared between the Kremlin and its political opponents. This is a war that has blown hot and cold... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Oil 7 Dcccinbcr 2006, in a 1 lighgatc Ck-mctcry drciiched with i.ondon rain, a liiissian was buried wirliin a stone's throw of the grave of Karl Marx. I le was Alexander Litvinenko, Sasha to his friends, a boy from the deep Russian provinces who ro.se through the ranks of the world's most feared security service. Litvinenko was the man who denounced murder and corruption in the Russian government, fled from the wrath of the Kremlin, came to London and took the shilling of Mo.scow's avowed enemy Now he was a martyr, condemned by foes unknown to an agonized death in a hospital bed thousands of miles from home.
Martin Sixsmith draws on his long experience as the BBC's Moscow correspondent, and contact with the key London-based Russians, to dissect Alexander Litvinenko's murder. Myriad theories have been put forward since he died, but the story goes back to 2000 when hostilities were declared between the Kremlin and its political opponents. This is a war that has blown hot and cold for over six years; a war that has pitted some of Russia's strongest, richest men against the most powerful president Russia has had since Josef Stalin. But a war it most certainly is. A war that is beginning to revive some of the worst horrors of the old days of the KG IV and looks set to intensify in a bitter battle for the presidency in March 2008.
TIIL LITVINENKO F1 LL is a gripping, powerful inside account of a shocking act of murder, when Russia's war with it.self spilled over onto the streets of London and made the world take notice.
MARTIN SIXSMITH was born in Cheshire and educated at Oxford, Harvard and the Sorbonne. From 1980 to 1997 he worked for the BBC, as the Corporation s correspondent in Moscow, Washington, Brussels and Warsaw. From 1997 to 2002 he worked for the British Government as Director of Communications. He is now a writer, presenter and journalist. His previous books are Moscow Coup: The Death of the Soviet System and two novels. Spin and I Heard Lenin Laugh. Vissza