Killer in the Kremlin: The instant bestseller - a gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny

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Ukraine, always in our thoughts today, and John Sweeney gives an insight not only into Putin the man but also hardships faced by frontline war correspondents. Without any in-text citations and a sparse bibliography, I only had confidence in claims Rennie or I had read elsewhere. At first I was worried this book wouldn’t offer much which was new, but Sweeney’s career holding Putin to account, as well as his highly personable writing style, ensured there was much new material to learn from in this book. this book is a harrowing, yet extremely intriguing insight into the way the kremlin deals with people who disagree with them. As a friend, admirer and occasional colleague of Sweeney since the 1980s, I think this may be the best thing he’s done.

It is anyone’s guess as to where this war will take Putin and Russia, let alone Zelensky and Ukraine. BORIS NEMTSOV, ASSASSINATED RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER * 'A dictator, bent on rebuilding an empire, will never erase the people's love for liberty.

Samara’s military hospital housed the wounded and I can still hear in my mind’s ear the struggled breathing of a kid who had been shot through the throat. Some of it is speculative but hard to avoid than given how closed a society Russia is and Sweeney makes his case well. One thing I am certain of is that if the Kaiser, the Emperor, the Tsar and the Caliphate knew where they would be five years hence from 2014, they would have done their utmost to have stopped that war from starting. A 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.

I enjoyed hearing about the author's recent experiences in Ukraine and about his interviews with people living there now. The book itself is engrossing from Chapters 1-13 after which it starts to lose itself in waffle for a couple of chapters, almost as though a first draft was used, he was under the influence or it was written by someone else, however it does start to recover from Chapter 16. By the time I get to the Post Office building a great curl of sound walls up in front of me like a monster wave at sea.Sweeney is a hard bitten, alcohol drinking experienced war correspondent and his book is a polemic account the life and rise of Vladimir Putin.