Killer in the Kremlin

NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS ''Killer in the Kremlin traces Putin''s bloody career... a life littered with corpses'' THE TIMES ''An extraordinarily prescient and fascinating book'' NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE 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