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A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West

By Luke Harding
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Unabridged — 13 hours, 12 minutes
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By Luke Harding
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Unabridged — 13 hours, 12 minutes
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A true story of murder and conspiracy that points directly to Vladimir Putin, by The Guardian's former Moscow bureau chief.

On 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 …