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Informationen zum Autor Mark Urban Klappentext The explosive story of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and what it reveals about the growing clandestine conflict between the West and Russia Salisbury, England: March 4, 2018. Slumped on a bench, paralyzed and barely able to breathe, were a former Russian intelligence officer named Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. Sergei had been living a quiet life in England since 2010, when he was expelled from Russia as part of a spy swap; he had been serving a lengthy prison sentence for working secretly for the British intelligence agency MI6. On this Sunday afternoon, he and his daughter had just finished lunch at a local restaurant when they started to feel faint. Within minutes they were close to death. The Skripals had been poisoned, not with a familiar toxin but with Novichok, a deadly nerve agent developed in southern Russia. Was this a message from the Kremlin that traitors would not escape violent death, even on British soil? As Sergei and Yulia fought for their lives, and the British government and their allies sought answers, relations between the West and Russia descended to a new low. The Skripal Files is a remarkable and definitive account of Sergei Skripal's story, which lays bare the new spy war between Russia and the West. Mark Urban, the diplomatic and defense editor for the BBC, met with Skripal in the months before his poisoning, learning about his career in Russian military intelligence, how he became a British agent, his imprisonment in Russia, and the events that led to his release. Skripal's first-hand accounts and experiences reveal the high stakes of a new spy game that harks back to the chilliest days of the Cold War. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction vii Prologue: An Unlawful Use of Force 1 Part One: Agent The Pitch 7 Sergei¿s Journey 13 Into the Darkness 24 Master Race No Longer 41 Breakthrough in Madrid 56 Inside the Glass House 70 The View from Vauxhall 85 Back into the Light 99 Part Two: Prisoner Inside Lefortovo 115 Litvinenko 129 11. IK 5 138 Hitmen 147 The Fateful Letter 160 Operation Ghost Stories 173 Deliverance 185 Christie Miller Road 198 Part Three: Target Sunday 4 March 213 The Fight for Survival 225 `Highly Likely¿ Russia 234 The Investigation Falters 254 The Information War 270 The Long Road to Recovery 286 Index 301 ...
