TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cowell,Alan
TI  - The terminal spy: a true story of espionage, betrayal and murder 
SN  - 9780767928168
AV  - B JN 6695 L782C 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Broadway Books
KW  - Litvinenko, Alexander,
KW  - Federal§naiìa sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossii
KW  - Spies
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Biography
KW  - Dissenters
KW  - Political crimes and offenses
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1991-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-432) and index; Broken homes, broken empire -- Poor man, rich man -- Acolytes -- Renegade -- War stories -- From Russia with stealth -- Siloviki -- Gilded exiles -- Crown protection -- A rolodex to die for -- Poison and PR -- Invisible assassin -- The polonium trail -- Hit men or fall-guys? -- Putin's doppelgèanger
N2  - Fatally poisoned by a rare radioactive isotope slipped into his drink, Russian emigre Alexander Litvinenko issued a dramatic deathbed statement accusing Russian president Vladimir Putin himself of engineering his murder. Alan S. Cowell, then London Bureau Chief of the "New York Times," who covered the story from its inception, has written the definitive story of this assassination and of the profound international implications of this first act of nuclear terrorism
ER  -