Killer in the Kremlin

by John Sweeney

Overview

A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine. In a disturbing exposé of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putin's long war. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putin's hand, we see the heroism of the Russian opposition, the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance, and the brutality with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance, assassinating or locking away its critics, and stopping at nothing to achieve its imperialist aims.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787636668
Publisher:	Penguin Random House UK
Publication date:	10/15/2022
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	460,088
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

John Sweeney is a writer and journalist who, while working for the BBC, has challenged dictators, despots, cult leaders, con artists and crooked businessmen for many years. As a reporter, first for the Observer and then for the BBC, Sweeney has covered wars and chaos in more than eighty countries and been undercover to a number of tyrannies, including Chechnya, North Korea and Zimbabwe. Over the course of his career, John has won an Emmy, two Royal Television Society Awards, a Sony Gold Award, a What the Papers Say Journalist of the Year Award, an Amnesty International Award and the Paul Foot.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Killing Machine 1

Chapter 2 Rat Boy 30

Chapter 3 Once and Future Spy 37

Chapter 4 A Bomb Made of Sugar 57

Chapter 5 War Without Pity 69

Chapter 6 The Poisonings Begin 83

Chapter 7 A Death of No Significance 95

Chapter 8 One Lump or Two? 103

Chapter 9 Russia's Greatest Love Machine 126

Chapter 10 Mr Pleonexia 139

Chapter 11 'So, sir, do you regret the killings in Ukraine, sir?' 153

Chapter 12 The Leader of the Opposition Has Been Shot 168

Chapter 13 Taking On Putin 178

Chapter 14 The View from the Spire 190

Chapter 15 A War We Don't Know We Are Fighting 205

Chapter 16 The Kremlin Candidate? 212

Chapter 17 Useful Idiots 227

Chapter 18 The Underpants Poisoner 252

Chapter 19 The Kremlin Patient 258

Chapter 20 This Ends in Blood 268

Acknowledgements 277

Notes on Sources 281