A Very Expensive Poison
The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West
by Luke Harding
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“Great piece here by @lukeharding1968, author of A VERY EXPENSIVE POISON, about the Litvineko murder. I learned so much from that book (which reads like a Le Carré). Worth a follow if you want to know what's going down in the Ukraine. | Yes, from Luke Harding's excellent book "A Very Expensive Poison," which I recently recommended. To Trump!”
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1 November 2006. Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. Twenty two days later he dies, killed from the inside. The poison Polonium; a rare, lethal and highly radioactive substance. His crime He had made some powerful enemies in Russia.Based on the best part of a decade's reporting, as well as extensive interviews with those ...
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“Great piece here by @lukeharding1968, author of A VERY EXPENSIVE POISON, about the Litvineko murder. I learned so much from that book (which reads like a Le Carré). Worth a follow if you want to know what's going down in the Ukraine. | Yes, from Luke Harding's excellent book "A Very Expensive Poison," which I recently recommended. To Trump!”
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