A Very Expensive Poison by Luke Harding | Audiobook

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Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial : https://esound.space/audible Title: A Very Expensive Poison Author: Luke Harding Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins Language: English Release date: 01-24-17 Publisher: Random House Audio Genres: Nonfiction, Politics Summary: On November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died 22 days later. The cause of death? Polonium - a rare, lethal, and highly radioactive substance. Here Luke Harding unspools a real-life political assassination story complete with KGB, CIA, MI6, and Russian mobsters. He shows how Litvinenko's murder foreshadowed the killings of other Kremlin critics, from Washington, DC, to Moscow, and how these are tied to Russia'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's fracturing relationship with the West. Contact: [email protected]