The gripping acclaimed history of Putin's brutal technique in poisoning elections by one of the world's foremost Russian Putin experts in an updated and revised edition.
The Age of Assassins describes in gripping detail Vladimir Putin's ruthless rise to power in Russia from his earliest rise to power in 1991 as an insignificant former KGB officer in Berlin. He gained power over the entire country and its economy by determining elections through business deals and criminal intervention -- from sophisticated cheating right up to murder and poisoning.