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_bL782C 2008
100 1 _aCowell, Alan.
245 1 4 _aThe terminal spy :
_ba true story of espionage, betrayal and murder /
_cAlan S. Cowell.
260 _aNew York :
_bBroadway Books,
_cc2008.
300 _axiv, 432 p. ;
_c22 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [427]-432) and index
505 0 _aBroken 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.
520 _aFatally 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.
600 1 0 _aLitvinenko, Alexander,
_d1962-2006.
650 0 _aSpies
_zRussia (Federation)
_vBiography.
650 0 _aDissenters
_zRussia (Federation)
_vBiography.
650 0 _aPolitical crimes and offenses
_zRussia (Federation)
610 2 0 _aFederal§naiìa sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossii.
650 0 _aMurder
_xInvestigation
_zEngland
_zLondon.
651 0 _aRussia (Federation)
_xPolitics and government
_y1991-
938 _aBaker and Taylor
_bBTCP
_nBK0008313071
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