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The Terminal Spy - Couverture rigide

Cowell, Alan

 
9780385614153: The Terminal Spy
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0385614152 ISBN 13 : 9780385614153
Editeur : Doubleday, 2008

Synopsis

A true story of espionage, betrayal and murder

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À propos de l'auteur

Alan Cowell is a British journalist writing for the New York Times. He received the George Polk Award for his coverage of apartheid South Africa, which led to his expulsion from that country. He has also been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting and was awarded the Nathaniel Nash Prize.

He lives in Paris and is married with three daughters.

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

On 1 November 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer, sipped tea in the upmarket Millennium Mayfair hotel near the American Embassy in London - tea that had been spiked with a rare radioactive isotope called Polonium 210. Twenty-two days later, he was dead. And the story behind his murder would be revealed as more baffling and more labyrinthine than any John Le Carré plot.

Litvinenko had sought asylum in London and from there had become a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin's government. His is the most high-profile of a string of unexplained deaths of a number of Russian dissenters, which heralds a new age of KGB-style authoritarianism and terror. Litvinenko's murder quickly became known as one of the most mysterious and audacious crimes of the post-Cold War era, and triggered an international investigation led by London's top counterterrorism officials.

Blending the pace of a thriller with original reportage and research, The Terminal Spy documents Litvinenko's life and death, the ensuing police investigation, the reaction from Vladimir Putin and others in Moscow, the Russian émigré set in London, and the implications of this case for nuclear proliferation and international terrorism in the future. It is a shocking indictment of how contemptuous of the rule of law certain governments are and a chilling reminder of the power - in every respect - of the New Russia.

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Éditeur
Doubleday
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0385614152
ISBN 13 
9780385614153
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
448
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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