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In this gripping, tightly plotted tale of espionage, Malko Linge investigates the suspicious death of a Russian oligarch in London. Boris Berezovsky is living in exile in London to avoid the wrath of Vladimir Putin. One morning, the unlucky oligarch is found dead in his bathroom, an apparent suicide. Their suspicions aroused, MI5 opens an investigationbut Prime Minister David Cameron orders the case closed. Alarmed at the renewal of Russian Cold War tricks and Moscows increasingly close ties to London, the CIA dispatches Malko Linge to investigate Berezovskys death and the British cover-up. With help from an alluring former CIA handler, Malko dives into the search for hard evidence of the Kremlins involvement in the affairputting himself directly in the crosshairs of the worlds most efficient assassins.