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Book Synopsis________________________________''Putin [and] his friends ... are gangsters on a scale that makes Al Capone or the Corleones seem small-time ... Lucas is right to castigate our folly in treating all this so lightly.'' - Max Hastings, Sunday Times''This important book is a sequel to the author''s last indictment of the Putin regime, The New Cold War, which came out four years ago. Deception is, if anything, even more devastating.'' - Standpoint''Urgent and heartfelt.'' - The Times_____________________________________From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the ''Ace of Spies'', by Lenin''s Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the ''Redhead under the Bed'', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a century.In
Deception Edward Lucas uncovers the real story of Chapman and her colleagues in Britain and America, unveiling their clandestine missions and the spy-hunt t
Trade ReviewEntertaining and informative ... In the fascinating chapters about the voluptuous Anna Chapman, who was expelled from the US two years ago together with nine other exposed Russian spies, we learn much that is new, especially about her life in London. Lucas contrasts our complacency and delusion with Russia's ruthless ingenuity. * Mail on Sunday *
Putin [and] his friends ... are gangsters on a scale that makes Al Capone or the Corleones seem small-time ... Lucas is right to castigate our folly in treating all this so lightly. * Max Hastings, Sunday Times *
Well-researched, engaging, and eerie. * Publishers’ Weekly *
This important book is a sequel to the author's last indictment of the Putin regime,
The New Cold War, which came out four years ago.
Deception is, if anything, even more devastating. * Standpoint *
Urgent and heartfelt. * The Times *
