'An extraordinarily prescient and fascinating book.' - NIHAL
ARTHANAYAKE
'This swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president.
Killer in the Kremlin traces Putin's bloody career... a life littered
with corpses.' - THE TIMES
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting
his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion
of Ukraine and his assault on Europe.
In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes
readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of
Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine.
In a disturbing exposé of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on
thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings
to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the
annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting
down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putin's long war.
Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who
have suffered at Putin's hand, we see the heroism of the Russian
opposition, the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance, and the brutality
with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance, assassinating
or locking away its critics, and stopping at nothing to achieve its
imperialist aims.
In the midst of one of the darkest acts of aggression in modern
history - Russia's invasion of Ukraine - this book shines a light on
Putin's rule and poses urgent questions about how the world must
respond.
'No one in the world will forgive you for killing peaceful people.' -
VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY, PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE
