Bøger af Heidi Blake

The explosive, untold story of how Russia mastered the art and science of targeted assassination. 'A real life thriller, packed with characters that even John le Carre couldn't dream of. If this doesn't scare you, then you're not paying attention.' Oliver Bullough

An "account by two ... investigative journalists at Britain's The Sunday Times explains how the 2022 World Cup was secured for Qatar--a key element in the ongoing, international FIFA controversy"--Amazon.com.

The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad -- while Western spies watched in horror as their governments failed to guard against the threat They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England. They were wrong. One by one, the Russian oligarchs, dissidents, and gangsters who fled to Britain after Vladimir Putin came to power dropped dead in strange or suspicious circumstances. One by one, their British lawyers and fixers met similarly grisly ends. Yet, one by one, the British authorities shut down every investigation-and carried on courting the Kremlin.The spies in the riverside headquarters of MI6 looked on with horror as the scope of the Kremlin's global killing campaign became all too clear. And, across the Atlantic, American intelligence officials watched with mounting alarm as the bodies piled up, concerned that the tide of death could spread to the United States. Those fears intensified when a one-time Kremlin henchman was found bludgeoned to death in a Washington, D.C. penthouse. But it wasn't until Putin's assassins unleashed a deadly chemical weapon on the streets of Britain, endangering hundreds of members of the public in a failed attempt to slay the double agent Sergei Skripal, that Western governments were finally forced to admit that the killing had spun out of control.Unflinchingly documenting the growing web of death on British and American soil, Heidi Blake bravely exposes the Kremlin's assassination campaign as part of Putin's ruthless pursuit of global dominance-and reveals why Western governments have failed to stop the bloodshed. The unforgettable story that emerges whisks us from London's high-end night clubs to Miami's million-dollar hideouts, ultimately rendering a bone-chilling portrait of money, betrayal, and murder, written with the pace and propulsive power of a thriller.Based on a vast trove of unpublished documents, bags of discarded police evidence, and interviews with hundreds of insiders, this heart-stopping international investigation uncovers one of the most important- and terrifying-geopolitical stories of our time.

Oligarch Boris Berezovski overleed onder verdachte omstandigheden; veiligheidsdienstmedewerker Aleksandr Litvinenko bezweek aan de gevolgen van een poloniumvergiftiging; Sergej Skripal, medewerker van een militaire inlichtingendienst, en zijn dochter Joelia werden blootgesteld aan zenuwgas.Ook buiten Rusland worden critici, opponenten en 'verraders' uit de weg geruimd. Het grote aantal brutale moorden en de groeiende omvang van spionage en hacking in het Westen wijzen op de ambities van Rusland om wereldwijd zijn invloed te vergroten. Zelfs de machtigste landen kunnen het Kremlin en Vladimir Poetin niet stoppen.Bekroond onderzoeksjournalist Heidi Blake reconstrueert de vele moordzaken en analyseert de consequenties van de strategie van Rusland en van de halfhartige reactie van het Westen. Heidi Blake heeft haar verhaal gebaseerd op forensisch bewijs, informatie van geheime diensten, vele duizenden documenten en honderden interviews met sleutelfiguren.Heidi Blake werkt als Britse onderzoeksjournalist voor BuzzFeed. Ze ontving vele prijzen voor haar journalistieke werk en werd in 2016 uitgeroepen tot Digital Journalist of the Year. Ook stond ze op de Forbes-lijst ‘30 Under 30’ als een van de meest invloedrijke jonge mediaprofessionals. In 2015 verscheen van haar hand The Ugly Game.