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Cowell was a reporter for the new york times when he covered the sensational murder of former kgb spy alex litvinenko in london. Cowell is a british writer whose career spanned four decades as a foreign. The terminal spy by alan s cowell, 9780767928168, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. After sipping tea in a london hotel, alexander litvinenko, a former kgb officer and vocal foe of the kremlin, fell ill and was rushed to. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the terminal spy. The terminal spy is an intrigue with a russian theme where the unspeakable do horrid things to the unpronounceable. Previously, cowell served as a correspondent for reuters and the new york times in europe, the middle east, and africa. Get this book free when you sign up for a 30day trial. When the new york timess london correspondent, alan cowell, set out to turn his reporting on the poisoning of exkgb agent alexander litvinenko into a book, he must have known the most he could hope for would be the next best thing, a full and factual account tying together all the available knowledge, and whatever else he could dredge up. Alexander valterovich litvinenko was born on december 4, 1962, in a hospital in. During a career spanning over four decades, he lived abroad for 28 years in switzerland, germany twice, turkey, zambia, lebanon, zimbabwe, kenya, south. Cowell, then london bureau chief of the new york times, who covered the story from its inception, has written the definitive story of this assassination and of the profound international implications of this first act of nuclear terrorism.
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