Killer in the Kremlin

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Killer in the Kremlin traces Putins bloody career... a life littered with corpsesTHE TIMES

An extraordinarily prescient and fascinating book NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE

A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putins 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 Putins Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine.

In a disturbing exposé of Putins 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 Putins long war.

Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putins 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.

In the midst of one of the darkest acts of aggression in modern history - Russias invasion of Ukraine - this book shines a light on Putins rule and poses urgent questions about how the world must respond
Praise for John Sweeney:
The evil dwarf-president is merely another one of those damn fool misfits like that scrappy little Stalin, or wee little Lenin.BORIS NEMTSOV, ASSASSINATED RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER

‘Vivid, harrowing and urgently personal’ DAILY MAIL No one in the world will forgive you for killing peaceful peopleVOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY, PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE

‘This swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president’ THE TIMES

Putin is the main war criminal of the 21st centuryIRYNA VENEDIKTOVA, UKRAINE’S PROSECUTOR-GENERAL

Words have power, Putin is afraid of the truth, I have always said thatALEXEI NAVALNY, LEADER OF THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION

A dictator, bent on rebuilding an empire, will never erase the peoples love for liberty. This man cannot remain in powerJOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Examines the sins of the Russian leaders regime iPAPER

Instant Sunday Times bestseller, March 2023