NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS'Killer in the Kremlin traces Putin's bloody career... a life littered with corpses' THE TIMES'An extraordinarily prescient and fascinating book' NIHAL ARTHANAYAKEA gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in the Kremli...

North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. It is Orwell’s 1984 made reality.The regime controls the flow of information to its citizens, pouring relentless propaganda through omnipresent loud speakers. Free speech is an illusion: one word out of line and the gulag awaits. State spies are everywhere, ready to punish disloyalty and the slightest sign of discontent.You must bow to Kim Il Sung, the Eternal Leader and to his son, Gen...

Al dertig jaar trekt de Britse journalist John Sweeney langs de brandhaarden en corrupte regimes van de wereld. Hij was onder andere in Kosovo, Zimbabwe, Noord-Korea en de scientologykerk, maar vooral in Rusland. In Killer in het Kremlin neemt Sweeney ons aan de hand van de bomaanslagen op Russische flatgebouwen in 1999, de bloederige Russische acties in Tsjetsjenië, de annexatie van de Krim en zijn confrontatie met Poetin na de aanslag op de MH17 mee naar de gebombardeerde steden...

'Murder in the Gulag is brilliant journalistic writing: punchy, eloquent, page-turning and factual. It's a powerful reminder of what an extraordinary man Navalny was' - Roland Oliphant, TelegraphIn this revised and updated paperback edition, award-winning journalist John Sweeney goes behind the headlines to investigate what really happened to Alexei Navalny in the freezing Polar Wolf penal colony in a remote part of Siberia in February 2024. This ...

Um livro que põe a descoberto o governo impiedoso e a máquina de matar do Kremlin, e coloca questões urgentes sobre como o mundo deve responder.Com 30 anos de experiência em ambientes de guerra, o premiado jornalista John Sweeney faz neste livro um relato da ambição desmedida e da desumanidade de Vladimir Putin, desde os golpes levados a cabo no coração da Rússia até às atrocidades cometidas pelo exército russo na Chechénia, à anexação da Crimeia e à invasão da Ucrânia, um dos atos...

THE UNPUTDOWNABLE TRUE STORY OF THE RISE AND FALL OF EPSTEIN'S ACCOMPLICE GHISLAINE MAXWELL: A MUST-READ FOR ANYONE FOLLOWING THE EPSTEIN FILESOnce upon a time there was a beautiful princess who suffered a tragedy, the death of her father, a war hero, a philanthropist, a good man, in suspicious circumstances. She fled to New York where she made a new life with a brilliant mathematician. Her name is Ghislaine Maxwell and her lover was Jeffrey Epstein. Through Jeffrey, and her ...

De moord op Aleksej Navalny in februari 2024, twee jaar na de gruwelijke inval van Rusland in Oekraïne, vormde een nieuw dieptepunt in de toch al weerzinwekkende gedragingen van het Kremlin. Navalny flirtte in zijn jonge jaren met nationalistisch rechts, maar ontpopte zich in de loop der tijd tot de belangrijkste Russische oppositieleider, die door het regime op alle mogelijke manieren werd tegengewerkt. Hij maakte een fatale inschattingsfout toen hij, na te zijn vergiftigd met novitsjok, ...

Sein Name war für den russischen Präsidenten tabu, bis Putin sich des verhassten Kontrahenten zuletzt doch entledigte: Alexej Nawalny, Putins gefährlichster Gegner. John Sweeney, der seit Jahrzehnten als Investigativjournalist zu den Abgründen der russischen Politik recherchiert und berichtet, kannte Nawalny persönlich. Nun liefert er eine packende Biografie über den Oppositionsführer und Hoffnungsträger, seine Stärken und Schwächen, die Attacken, denen er ausgesetzt war – und offenbart di...

Dieser Mann schreckt vor nichts zurückBei der Verfolgung seiner Ziele geht Wladimir Putin über Leichen, und das nicht erst seit dem Überfall auf die Ukraine. John Sweeney, investigativer Journalist und seit vielen Jahren auf der Spur von Putins Verbrechen, legt die Beweise vor: Schon bei seinem unheimlichen Aufstieg vom Stasi-Mann in Dresden zum unumschränkten Herrscher im Kreml ging Putin mit erbarmungsloser Konsequenz vor, ließ Oppositionelle ausschalten, provozi...

Brought to you by Penguin.THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERSA gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe.In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to t...

This book is not your usual whitewash. Irreverent, hilarious and surprising, Wayne Rooney: Boots of Gold is a tarts-and-all biography of England's most famous sportsman and an exposé of the iniquities of some of those who have sought their pound of flesh from his celebrity. Short-tempered and sweary he may be, but there's no doubting Rooney's passion for the beautiful game. But who is the real Wayne Rooney? On the one hand there was the disastrous World Cup in 2010, sex scandals and the un...

'Murder in the Gulag is brilliant journalistic writing: punchy, eloquent, page-turning and factual. It's a powerful reminder of what an extraordinary man Navalny was' - Roland Oliphant, TelegraphThe gripping sequel to the bestselling Killer in the Kremlin, revised and updated for paperback publication.2:19pm, Moscow time, 16 February 2024. The Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District a...