Alex Goldfarb

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Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim of a "tiny nuclear bomb." Suspicions swirled around Russia's FSB, the successor to the KGB, and the Putin regime. Traces of polonium radiation were found in Germany and on certain airplanes, suggesting a travel route from Russia for the carriers of the fatal poison. But what really happened? What did Litvinenko know? And why was he killed?

Death of a Dissident

Russian edition
Translated by the authors and updated to 2010
Foreign Editions
It has been published in 30 countries in 24 languages
The Original US Edition
An account of life and death of a former KGB spy assassinated in London

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