Murder in the Gulag

Murder in the Gulag is brilliant journalistic writing: punchy, eloquent, page-turning and factual. It’s a powerful reminder of what an extraordinary man Navalny was. – Roland Oliphant * Telegraph *
[Sweeney] has done a valuable service with this lively page-turner. He is keeping Navalny’s name alive and has shown that, despite all that Putin has done to corrupt society, there is a core of decency in Russia. – Victor Sebestyen * The Times *
[a] forensic and compelling account * RTÉ Guide *
In a grimly fascinating read, Sweeney provides a crash course in Russia’s recent history … and provides a genuinely frightening depiction of what it means to challenge the Russian leader’s grasp on power. – John Walshe * The Irish Times *
Passionate … Sweeney not only gives a detailed backstory to this flawed hero, but also provides an insight into Putin’s fears and the lengths he will go to to silence all opposition: something that too many Western observers are still reluctant to understand. – Ksenia Samotiy * Irish Independent *
There is a growing realisation that the West has, yet again, been naively neglectful and that we must do much, much more to secure our world and our children’s world too. Sweeney’s Murder in the Gulag is a very timely and valuable contribution to that debate and process. – Jack Power * Irish Examiner *

John Sweeney is a writer and journalist who has challenged dictators, despots, cult leaders, con artists and crooked businessmen for almost half a century. As a reporter, first for The Observer and then for the BBC, he has covered wars in around 100 countries and has been undercover in the danger zones of Chechnya, North Korea and Zimbabwe. The author of 16 books, including the Sunday Times bestseller The Killer in the Kremlin, he has challenged both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin face-to-face.

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