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The Terminal Spy: A True Story Of Espionage, Betrayal And Murder (2008)

by Alan S. Cowell(Favorite Author)

3.25 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0385523556 (ISBN13: 9780385523554)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Broadway

review 1: There's now, like, three books on the radioactive poisoning of dissident Alexander Litvinenko and supposedly a movie on the way starring Johnny Depp. This one, Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB by Alex Goldfarb and The Litvinenko File: The Life and Death of a Russian Spy by Martin Sixsmith as well as Litvinenko's book Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror and Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia by Steve Levine as well as Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy by Anna Politkovskaya. All are good reading and having read them all, I'm not sure which I would recommend over the others. But don't wait for the movie! The book is a fast, sobering page turner that you r... moreead read in one sitting!
review 2: It starts off a little slow, more Russian history than true-crime thriller. But the background on the main players becomes important later and is worth working through. Not many books could combine history and espionage with a dash of physics and get away with it, but this one does. But it's not exactly a comforting story in terms of the future of Russian relations with the West and terrorism in general. Part of me wants to explore Putin a little more while part of me doesn't really want to know. less

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