The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko: To Kill a Mockingbird

The murder of Alexander Litvinenko is a serious business, and this book argues that it was not properly investigated and closed. The author believes that the case remains open and that the prime suspect is living a good life in Moscow.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 30 June 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Espionage is a serious business, as Chris de Burgh famously noted in his song Moonlight and Vodka. Just less than two decades after the untimely death of Sasha Litvinenko, poisoned at the heart of London's Mayfair by Russian secret agents using the previously unknown radioactive substance containing a fatal dose of Polonium-210, it is hardly remembered by anyone in the West. No wonder, in an information-rich world where the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. Such an obvious thing was suddenly discovered by a simple old man from Milwaukee, and he has a point there. This book is about the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, whose legal case seems to many people like open and shut. Even to his widow Marina and their son. To MI6, MI5, and the Special Operations branch of the London's Metropolitan Police, who presented it to the public as thoroughly investigated and closed. To judge Sir Robert Owen appointed to hold the inquest into the death of a Russian Spy, as the BBC and other media have put it - a terrible mistake. To journalists and writers who had been following this case for as long as a decade, not to mention the prime suspect living a good life in Moscow. But not for me. For me, this case remains open.

Espionage is a serious business, as Chris de Burgh famously noted in his song Moonlight and Vodka. Just less than two decades after the untimely death of Sasha Litvinenko, poisoned at the heart of London's Mayfair by Russian secret agents using the previously unknown radioactive substance containing a fatal dose of Polonium-210, it is hardly remembered by anyone in the West. No wonder, in an information-rich world where the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. Such an obvious thing was suddenly discovered by a simple old man from Milwaukee, and he has a point there. This book is about the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, whose legal case seems to many people like open and shut. Even to his widow Marina and their son. To MI6, MI5, and the Special Operations branch of the London's Metropolitan Police, who presented it to the public as thoroughly investigated and closed. To judge Sir Robert Owen appointed to hold the inquest into the death of a Russian Spy, as the BBC and other media have put it - a terrible mistake. To journalists and writers who had been following this case for as long as a decade, not to mention the prime suspect living a good life in Moscow. But not for me. For me, this case remains open.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399060172