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Lädt ... A Very Expensive Poison : the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's war with the West (Original 2016; 2017. Auflage)von Luke Harding (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. The story of murdering Litvinenko is as nail biting as a thriller and helps to understand how the Russian state sponsored terrorism works. ( ) Luke Harding is a reporter for The Guardian who has lived in and reported from Russia and written about the Litvinenko murder since it happened in 2006. This is an in-depth retelling of events, up to nearly the present. The murder takes place early on in the book and it feels like a thriller, not surprising since Arthurt Conan Doyle is a favorite author of one of the Russian killers. The poison used is the rare periodic element polonium (atomic number 84) estimated to have cost over 15 million dollars to manufacture for a few grams. It was enough to kill 50 million people. Because it gives off alpha instead of beta radiation only the military has detectors and it might have been the perfect crime. However British sleuths finally figured it out and the whole evil plot exposed with all evidence pointing back to Putin. This was the legal finding by the top British court. Litvinenko was killed because he had information linking Putin to organized crime. He was a threat to the Russian mafia state. The Litvinenko story is something of a classic in modern espionage and this is probably as good a book you will find on it. It's also damned unsettling the Putin regime can kill anyone, anywhere, anytime and get away with it. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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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--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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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