Alex Goldfarb, the lose friend of murdered Russian defector Alexander (Sasha) Litvinenko, with the help of his widow, tells the full story of the ex-spy's career, from his work with the FSB (formerly KGB) in Russia and his dramatic escape to Turkey and then London in 2000, to his efforts to expose the FSB's assassinations and dirty dealings, up until his own shocking death, apparently from radiation poisoning, in October 2006.
'Death of a Dissident' shows how the Kremlin is torn by battles between oligarchs and the secret police, all under Vladimir Putin's autocratic control. It also reveals extraordinary abuses of power in post-Soviet Russia and throughout the world, and shows that the truth behind why Litvinenko was poisoned reaches to the highest level of the Kremlin.
Part biography, part true-crime expose, and part current affairs insight into a Russia far less open than we have been led to believe, 'Death of a Dissident' sheds light on one of the biggest and most curious news stories of recent years as well as the biggest crisis in relations with Russia since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
