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 PREFACE FROM THE AUTHOR
''A courageous and explosive expos-'
ORLANDO FIGES
''Luke Harding is one of the best reporters in the world.''
ROBERT SAVIANO
''An essential read.''
NEW STATESMAN
In 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 psychologi
