Killer in the Kremlin

‘The evil dwarf-president is merely another one of those damn fool misfits like that scrappy little Stalin, or wee little Lenin.’ * BORIS NEMTSOV, ASSASSINATED RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER *Vivid, harrowing and urgently personal * DAILY MAIL *‘No one in the world will forgive you for killing peaceful people.’ * VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY, PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE *‘Putin is the main war criminal of the 21st century.’ * IRYNA VENEDIKTOVA, UKRAINE’S PROSECUTOR-GENERAL *‘Words have power, Putin is afraid of the truth, I have always said that.’ * ALEXEI NAVALNY, LEADER OF THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION *‘A dictator, bent on rebuilding an empire, will never erase the people’s love for liberty. This man cannot remain in power.’ * JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES *‘Examines the sins of the Russian leader’s regime’ * iPAPER *

John Sweeney is a writer and journalist who, when working for the BBC, has challenged dictators, despots, cult leaders, con artists and crooked businessmen for many years. Sweeney has covered wars and chaos in one hundred countries and been undercover to a number of tyrannies, including Chechnya, North Korea and Zimbabwe. The author of fifteen books including the Sunday Times best- seller Killer in the Kremlin, he reports on the war in Ukraine.