Follow the Poison

On the afternoon of Nov. 1, 2006, Alexander V. Litvinenko, an obscure Russian exile and critic of President Vladimir Putin, met some Russians for tea in the Millennium Hotel in London. Somehow, during those quick moments, as Alan S. Cowell explains in this engaging work of investigative reporting, Litvinenko “had begun to die.” [snip] Cowell’s conclusions are sensible: that the Russians tried several times before they succeeded in killing Litvinenko; that they employed a teapot containing the poison; that the killing was bungled (the poison was meant to be delivered in a higher quantity, to kill more quickly and before...

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