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A look into the untimely death of Alexander Litvinenko, whose murder seems like an open-and-shut case to many. In his famous Moonlight and Vodka, Chris de Burgh got it right: Espionage is a serious business. And like every serious business, it must be taken seriously. Less than two decades after the untimely death of Sasha Litvinenko, poisoned at the heart of London's Mayfair by Russian secret agents by the previously unknown radioactive substance containing a fatal dose of Polonium-210, it is hardly remembered by anyone in the West. No wonder, we live in an information-rich world when 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's got 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 has 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. AUTHOR: Boris Volodarsky is a former captain of the GRU Spetsnaz, a member of the World Association of International Studies and co-editor of the 'International Personal Files intelligence' magazine. He is the author of 'Nikolai Khokhlov: Self-Esteem with a Halo' and 'The Orlov File: The Greatest KGB Deception of All Time'. He is an advisor to the film director Michael Mann. 32 b/w illustrations

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BORIS VOLODARSKY is a British intelligence historian, member of the Cambridge intelligence seminar led by Professor Christopher Andrew. A former military intelligence officer who defended his doctoral thesis in intelligence history at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Dr Volodarsky is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London and a former Visiting Fellow of the Cañada Blanch Centre of the LSE. He is a regular contributor to radio programs and documentaries including BBC Panorama, the British TV series Once Upon a Time in Londongrad (Sky, 2022) and the Spanish TV series Project Niños, (Dmax, 2020) and the author of many articles published in The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Spectator as well as in academic intelligence journals in Britain and the USA. His previous works include Stalin’s Agent, three volumes of The KGB’s Poison Factory (From Lenin to Litvinenko, Assassins and To Kill a Mocking Bird) and several important studies of intelligence. As an academic historian, Boris continues to write books on intelligence history (his current project is a new history of the KGB in six volumes, the first volume came out in 2023 and the second is planned for 2025) also producing films where he acts as director and chief consultant. His documentaries Spy Capital and Spy Capital 2 had their world premiere in Cannes and received many international prizes as the Best Feature Film.

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