The Litvinenko File: The True Story of a Death Foretold by Martin

- Published by Macmillan on 6th April 2007. Price: Hardback GBP16.99


In December 2006 the death of Alexander Litvinenko captured the world's
imagination. The events unfolded like a real life thriller, too extraordinary
for even the most fantastical work of fiction. As an old Russia hand, Martin
Sixsmith knows the Russian underworld well and in this dramatic new book he
exposes the key Russian players, most of whom he has known over the years, to
give us the answer to the perplexing question: Who killed Litvinenko?


Myriad theories have been put forward since he died, but the story goes
back to 2000 when hostilities were declared between the Kremlin and its
political opponents. This is a war that has blown hot and cold for over six
years; a war that has pitted some of Russia's strongest, richest men against
the most powerful president Russia has had since Josef Stalin.


The Litvinenko File is a gripping, powerful inside account of a shocking
act of murder, when Russia's war with itself spilled over onto the streets of
London and made the world take notice.


Martin Sixsmith was born in Cheshire and educated at Oxford, Harvard and
the Sorbonne. From 1980 to 1997 he worked for the BBC, as the Corporation's
correspondent in Moscow, Washington, Brussels and Warsaw. From 1997 to 2002
he worked for the British Government as Director of Communications. He is now
a writer, presenter and journalist. His previous books are Moscow Coup: The
Death of the Soviet System and two novels, Spin and I Heard Lenin Laugh.


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