{"product_id":"9781101973998","title":"A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA true story of murder and conspiracy that points directly to Vladimir Putin, by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian’s \u003c\/i\u003eformer Moscow bureau chief.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030345892080,"sku":"9781101973998","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101973998_p0.jpg?v=1763690038","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101973998","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}