The Skripal Files Putin, Postion and the New Spy War

b>'A scrupulous piece of reporting, necessary, timely and very sobering' John Le Carr/b>b>e/b>A Sunday Times Best Book of 2018Agent. Prisoner. Target.br>Who is Sergei Skripal?4 March 2018, Salisbury, England. A man and his daughter are found slumped on a bench, poisoned by the deadly nerve agent Novichok. He was a Russian national that became a MI6 spy.Russia are publicly accused of carrying out the attack by the British government, sparking a diplomatic crisis between Russia and the West.Then two innocent people find a discarded perfume bottle used in the attack and one of them, Dawn Sturgess, tragically dies. It is now a murder investigation. How exactly did we get here?In The Skripal Files Mark Urban explains the most shocking espionage incident in a decade. Based on interviews with Sergei before his poisoning, Urban describes precisely how an otherwise loyal Russian intelligence officer was turned into an agent by MI6, how Skripal was betrayed so that he found himself in a Siberian prison, and why, years later, was he was targeted for assassination.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mark Urban
• Editore: Pan Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 19.09.2019
• Categoria: Saggistica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia contemporanea (dal 1945 al 1989)
• EAN: 9781529006926
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-0692-6
• Numero di pagine: 337
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 18 anni
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.9 x 19.7 x 2.1 cm
• Categorie: KGB, Salisbury, MI6, Putin, Russia, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Biography: historical, political & military, MI5, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, FSB, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, TRUE CRIME / Murder / General, True Story, Espionage & secret services, Spying, Espionage and secret services, Biography: historical, political and military, The Cold War, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Espionage, spies, Poisoning, cold war; spying; spies; Russia; MI5; MI6; espionage; poisoning; novichok; putin; Skripal poisoning; Salisbury; KGB; war with russia; Litvinenko; Nick Bailey; Dawn Sturgess; Charlie Rowley; FSB; true crime; true story; Salisbury poisonings, war with russia, Novichok, Litvinenko, Nick Bailey, Salisbury poisonings, Skripal poisoning, Charlie Rowley, Dawn Sturgess