Publisher's Synopsis
Using Alexander Litvinenko's testimony, Yuri Felshtinsky wrote the international bestseller Blowing up Russia about the rigged election of Vladimir Putin in 2001. In his exceptional new book, The Age of Assassins, Felshtinsky investigates how over eight years Putin turned Russia into the first country in human history to be ruled by its secret service. Yuri Felshtinsky is Litvinenko's co-author of Blowing up Russia. The Age of Assassins starts with the Putin government in 2001 where Blowing up Russia ended and describes the next eight years. Blowing up Russia sold 10,000 copies since January 2007, and has since been published in 24 countries. Published during the 2008 Russian Presidential elections in March. A hard-hitting account of the scary group of rulers of modern Russia. Access to high-level dissident sources inside an outside Russia.
