Death of Trotsky

THE PULSE-POUNDING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ASSASSINATION THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY ''Elegant, unshowy and gripping in the manner of a dependable le Carré'' THE TIMES ''The page-turning pace of a thriller . . . A first-class historian'' ANDREW ROBERTS ''Breathtaking . . . This is lucid, kaleidoscopic history'' RORY CARROLL ''Gripping . . . Full of treachery, intrigue and betrayal'' DAMIEN LEWIS In August 1940, a man walked into Leon Trotsky''s study in Mexico City and drove an ice pick into his skull. The killer? Ramón Mercader - an aristocratic Spaniard turned Soviet assassin. The mastermind? Joseph Stalin. But this was no simple hit. It was the climax of a decade-long global hunt: a story of seduction and betrayal, of fake identities and secret loyalties, of idealists and fanatics, lovers and spies. While Trotsky raged in exile - still clinging to his revolutionary