THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERSThis swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president. Killer in the Kremlin traces Putins bloody career... a life littered with corpses. THE TIMESA gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putins 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 awardwinning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putins Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine.In a disturbing expos of Putins sinister ambition Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 to understand the true extent of Putins long war.Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putins hand we see the heroism of the Russian opposition the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance and the brutality with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance assassinating or locking away its critics and stopping at nothing to achieve its imperialist aims.In the midst of one of the darkest acts of aggression in modern history Russias invasion of Ukraine this book shines a light on Putins rule and poses urgent questions about how the world must respond.An extraordinarily prescient and fascinating book. NIHAL ARTHANAYAKEInstant Sunday Times bestseller March 2023