The Age of Assassins describes in gripping detail Vladimir Putins ruthless rise to power in Russia from his earliest rise to power in 1991 as an insignificant former KGB officer in Berlin. He gained power over the entire country and its economy by determining elections through business deals and criminal intervention from sophisticated cheating right up to murder and poisoning.GBYuri Felshtinsky wrote Blowing up Russia with Alexander Litvinenko, whose 2006 assassination was ordered by Vladimir Putin the Litvinenko Public Inquiry found on 20 January 2016. He is a former Hoover Institute Fellow at the University of Stanford.Fifty-nine-year-old Vladimir Pribylovsky was found dead a week before the 2016-Litvinenko inquiry in Moscow in unexplained circumstances.Required reading& A catalogue of corruption... fascinating. Oleg Gordievsky, The Times lead reviewNew introduction by Yuri Felshtinsky.Scholarly history of Putin's technique in poisoning elections by one of the world's foremost Russian Putin experts.Co-author Vladimir Pribylovsky died in suspicious circumstances in 2016, the week before the Litvinenko Inquiry.