A VERY EXPENSIVE POISON: THE DEFINITIVE STORY OF THE MURDER OF LITVINENKO AND RUSSIA’S WAR WITH THE WEST
Book ID/图书代码： 04560015B80760
English Summary/英文概要： Based on the best part of a decade’s reporting, as well as extensive interviews with those closest to events (including the suspected killers), Harding’s gripping book, An Expensive Poison, will be the definitive account of the assassination of Litvinenko. It was a brazen attack, carried out by bungling assassins carried out in central London, deploying a kind of mini-nuclear bomb. In this scarcely believable Jacobean revenge tragedy, Harding follows the radioactive trail of polonium across London, and ultimately back to the order from Russia. This will be both the story of an individual - someone we now only associate with that deathly, pale, bald photograph - and the strange, surreal, violent world of rough Russian justice.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Harding基于十年来对于相关时间报道的精髓以及广泛采访那些最接近事件（包括杀人嫌疑人）的人写成这本扣人心弦的书，足以定论利特维年科的暗杀事件。这是一个无耻的攻击，笨拙的刺客在伦敦市中心部署了一种小型的核弹。这是一个几乎让人无法相信的、简直就好比詹姆士一世时期复仇悲剧那样的事件。Harding搜索全伦敦试图找到当年钋放射的线索，并最终发现货是俄罗斯定的。这既是一个有关个人的故事，也是一个和奇怪的、超现实主义、暴力、粗糙的俄罗斯正义相关的世界。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：•Harding认为俄罗斯和西方如今已经进入了第二次更为危险的冷战。本书中提到：利特维年科的暗杀不过是一个开端，自2006年以来这场战争的程度已经大大深化了。
•Harding将在本书中探讨俄罗斯是否愿意动用武力、俄罗斯对于欧洲边界和国家的修正主义观点以及俄罗斯是如何蔑视国际法的——书中的观点新颖独特。
•Harding采集相关素材的能力无人能及。他已经追踪这个故事很多年，且采访了他的妻子、父亲、朋友以及杀手本人等等。本书将设涉及一些从未被曝光的细节内容。
The highest level and deeply engaged in the sell-off of state assets at crazily low prices.
• Harding will argue that “Russia and the West are now effectively locked a new, second and dangerous cold war. The Litvinenko assassination was the beginning of a process which has accelerated dramatically since 2006. The book will include later chapters on the war in Ukraine; the murder of Boris Nemtsov; the death of other Putin critics; and the rise of Kremlin propaganda and disinformation, aimed at Western viewers”. Litvinenko is the prism through which he will tell this compelling story.
• Harding will explore Russia’s willingness to use military force; its revisionist view of Europe’s borders and states; and contempt for international law. The deterioration in Moscow’s relations with the US and the EU has been told before (including by me in Mafia State). “What makes the book new and distinct, I think, is that the political crisis between West and East has got so much worse. Over the last year Russians have come to believe they are now in a state of pre-war with the West. Nobody knows what Putin will do next”.
• Harding has unrivalled access - he has been following this story for years & interviewed wife&son&father, Litvinenko’s friends (Alex Goldfar to Boris Berezovsky) and the killers (he interviewed Lugovoi twice and he has met Kovtun). The book will include “new material on Litvinenko’s career as a British spy; the source of the polonium in Russia; fresh evidence that his murder was authorised by Kremlin.
About the Author/作者介绍： LUKE HARDING是一个屡获殊荣的《卫报》驻外记者。他曾在德里、柏林和莫斯科发回报道，也曾亲赴阿富汗战场和伊拉克战争采访。他是《斯诺登文件》、《黑手党报告》以及《维基解密》的共同作者，曾被提名Orwell奖。他还为Granta杂志撰写文章。他现与请妻子、记者Phoebe Taplin以及他们的两个孩子住在赫特福德郡。
LUKE HARDING is an award-winning foreign correspondent with the Guardian. He has reported from Delhi, Berlin and Moscow and has also covered wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is the author of The Snowden Files, MafiaState and co-author of WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy (2011) and The Liar: The Fall of Jonathan Aitken (1997), nominated for the Orwell Prize. He has also written for the magazine Granta. He lives in Hertfordshire with his wife, the freelance journalist Phoebe Taplin, and their two children
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