The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko
eBook - ePub

The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko

To Kill a Mockingbird

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko

To Kill a Mockingbird

About this book

In his famous Moonlight and Vodka, Chris de Burgh got it right: Espionage is a serious business. And like every serious business, it must be taken seriously. Less than two decades after the untimely death of Sasha Litvinenko, poisoned at the heart of London's Mayfair by Russian secret agents by the previously unknown radioactive substance containing a fatal dose of Polonium-210, it is hardly remembered by anyone in the West. No wonder, we live in an information-rich world when the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. Such an obvious thing was suddenly discovered by a simple old man from Milwaukee, and he's got a point there. This book is about the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, whose legal case seems to many people like open-and-shut. Even to his widow Marina and their son. To MI6, MI5 and the Special Operations branch of the London's Metropolitan Police who presented it to the public as thoroughly investigated and closed. To judge Sir Robert Owen appointed to hold the inquest "into the death of a Russian Spy" as the BBC and other media has put it – a terrible mistake. To journalists and writers who had been following this case for as long as a decade, not to mention the prime suspect living a good life in Moscow. But not for me. For me this case remains open.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko: A Short Bibliographical Essay Instead of Acknowledgements
  6. Definitions of Key Terms
  7. About This Book: A Tribute to Forsyth
  8. Prologue: A Machine Starts to Grind, then Stops
  9. Chapter 1 The Family and the KGB Coup d’État
  10. Chapter 2 Berezovsky: The Rise and Fall of a Wise Man
  11. Chapter 3 The Escape
  12. Chapter 4 A Coterie of Friends and Foes
  13. Chapter 5 The Frenzied World of Private Spying
  14. Chapter 6 Italy
  15. Chapter 7 Storm Clouds are Gathering
  16. Chapter 8 To Kill a Mockingbird – Part I
  17. Chapter 9 To Kill a Mockingbird – Part II
  18. Chapter 10 The Third Man
  19. Chapter 11 The Litvinenko Inquiry
  20. Epilogue
  21. Appendix: The KGB Successors: December 1991–December
  22. Notes
  23. Plates