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About this book
Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Luke Harding's haunting, brilliant account of the insidious methods used against him by a resurgent Kremlin which led to
him becoming the first western reporter to be deported from Russia since the days of the Cold War.
FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD FROM THE AUTHOR
'A courageous and explosive exposé.'
ORLANDO FIGES
'Luke Harding is one of the best reporters in the world.'
ROBERT SAVIANO
'An essential read.'
NEW STATESMAN
In 2007, Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service - the successor to the KGB - had broken into his flat. He found himself tailed by men in cheap leather jackets, bugged, and even summoned to Lefortovo, the KGB's notorious prison.
The break-in was the beginning of an extraordinary psychological war against the journalist and his family. Vladimir Putin's spies used tactics developed by the KGB and perfected in the 1970s by the Stasi, East Germany's sinister secret police. This clandestine campaign burst into the open in 2011 when the Kremlin expelled Harding from Moscow.
Luke Harding's
Mafia State gives a unique, personal and compelling portrait of today's Russia, two decades after the end of communism, that reads like a spy thriller.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Praise
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue:: The Break-in
- 1.: Sword and Shield
- 2.: The Money Trail
- 3.: Death of a Spy
- 4.: Winners and Losers
- 5.: Five Days in August
- 6.: Death in the Snow
- 7.: KGB! Give Me Your Papers!
- 8.: Political Football
- 9.: The New Bourgeoisie
- 10.: The Once and Future War
- 11.: Rise of the Far Right
- 12.: The Neighbours
- 13.: Batman and Robin
- 14.: WikiLeaks
- 15.: “Thanks to Dima and Vlad”
- 16.: Enemy of the State
- 17.: The File
- Epilogue:: An English Spring
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- About the Author
- Also by the Author
- Copyright