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right, with Alexander Gusak during the siege of Pervomaisk, during the first Chechen War, 1996. (Courtesy of the author)

Negotiations in Chechnya. Yeltsin, Rybkin, Berezovsky, Udugov, Maskhadov, Zakayev. (Courtesy of the author)

Vladimir Gusinsky and Boris Berezovsky, 1996. (Aleksander Potapov/Kommersant)

George Soros at Davos. (AP Images/Alessandro della Valle)

Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin. (KLIMENTYEV MIKHAIL/ITARTASS/Landov)

Sasha Litvinenko’s 1998 press conference, denouncing corruption at the FSB, along with Viktor Shebalin. (Sergei Kaptilkin/REUTERS/Landov)

Boris Berezovksy, 2002, denouncing the Russian government and accusing the FSB of blowing up apartment buildings in Moscow in 1999. (AP Images/Richard Lewis)

The 2nd Scientific Research Institute (NII-2) of the FSB in Moscow, reputed to be a storehouse for polonium. (Courtesy of the author)

The Litvinenkos’ home in north London. (Andrew Stuart/EMPICS/Landov)

Sergei Yushenkov, member of the Duma who helped investigate the 1999 apartment bombings. He was killed by an unknown gunman in front of his home in Moscow, April 17, 2003. (Associated Press)

Anna Politkovskaya, crusading Moscow journalist. (SAEZ PASCAL/SIPA)

Mikhail Trepashkin, a former colleague of Sasha’s, who denounced the FSB and was subsequently imprisoned. (Sergei Karpukhin/REUTERS/Landov)

Sasha Litvinenko on his deathbed. (Natasja Weitsz/Getty Images)

Dmitri Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoy. (Mikhail Antonov/REUTERS TV/Landov)

Mario Scaramella. (CIRO FUSCO/epa/Corbis)

German police taking radiation samples from Dmitri Kovtun’s car, 2006. (Sebastian Widmann/dpa/Corbis)

Alex Goldfarb with toxicologist John Henry. (AP Images/John Stillwell)

Marina Litvinenko at Sasha’s funeral. (Dylan Martinez/REUTERS/Landov)

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

CAST OF CHARACTERS

AUTHOR’S NOTE

PART I THE MAKING OF A DISSIDENT

CHAPTER 1 ASYLUM

CHAPTER 2 THE STRANGE MAJOR

PART II THE STRUGGLE FOR THE KREMLIN

CHAPTER 3 THE ROBBER BARON

CHAPTER 4 THE DAVOS PACT

PART III THE DRUMBEATS OF WAR

CHAPTER 5 THE REBELS

CHAPTER 6 THE PLOTTERS

CHAPTER 7 THE WHISTLE-BLOWERS

PART IV THE MAKING OF A PRESIDENT (Russian-Style)

CHAPTER 8 THE LOYALIST

CHAPTER 9 THE VICTORS

CHAPTER 10 THE FUGITIVES

PART V THE RETURN OF THE KGB

CHAPTER 11 THE EXILES

CHAPTER 12 THE SLEUTHS

CHAPTER 13 THE QUARRY

CHAPTER 14 THE “TINY NUCLEAR BOMB”

CHAPTER 15 THE HALL OF MIRRORS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHORS