Mafia State

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Luke Harding''s haunting, brilliant account of the insidious methods used against him by a resurgent Kremlin which led to him becoming the first western reporter to be deported from Russia since the days of the Cold War.FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD FROM THE AUTHOR''A courageous and explosive exposé.''ORLANDO FIGES''Luke Harding is one of the best reporters in the world.''ROBERT SAVIANO''An essential read.''NEW STATESMANIn 2007, Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia''s Federal Security Service - the successor to the KGB - had broken into his flat. He found himself tailed by men in cheap leather jackets, bugged, and even summoned to Lefortovo, the KGB''s notorious prison.The break-in was the beginning of an extraordinary psychological war against the journalist and his family. Vladimir Putin''s spies used tactics developed by