The Killing in the Consulate: Investigating the Life and Death of Jamal Khashoggi Audiobook (Free)

‘Confirming at its greatest. Immaculately researched, sober and interesting’ John le Carré

‘Compulsory reading…fast-paced and brilliantly written’ Jeremy Bowen

After Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was filmed moving in to the Saudi consulate in Turkey, he was under no circumstances seen alive once again. What happened next turned into a major international scandal, now finally pieced collectively by Channel 4’s BAFTA award-winning Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman.

Described by Donald Trump as about The Getting rid of in the Consulate: Investigating the Life and Loss of life of Jamal Khashoggi the ‘worst cover-up ever’, this is actually the first comprehensive accounts of one of the most notorious and outrageous murder plots of our time. In The Killing in the Consulate, Rugman pieces jointly in minute-by-minute fine detail the occasions after Khashoggi entered the Saudi diplomatic building on 2 October 2018, looking to receive the records that would enable him to marry Hatice Cengiz, patiently waiting for him outside. Small do they realise, he was entering a trap, being a 15-guy Saudi strike squad had just flown into the country and was waiting for him. Within a few minutes he had been viciously murdered and his body was quickly removed. The Saudis believed they would be able to get away with it all, and concocted a far-fetched story to pay it up. But what they didn’t realise was that Turkey’s Leader Erdogan’s security and intelligence firms experienced bugged the consulate, and captured the horrific events on tape.

Based on confidential sources, dramatic new proof and in-depth research across several countries, Rugman reveals the framework behind the murder and attempted cover-up. He shows how a power struggle between Erdogan and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, experienced such fatal results. The prince got seemed to guarantee a fresh and more open up era for his country, while also trading vast amounts in arms deals with the West. Inevitably other countries, including President Trump and the USA, were drawn in to the affair, which created the biggest crisis in US-Saudi relationships since 9/11. Skilfully, Rugman draws together all of the strands to tell a gripping tale of one man’s tragedy that acquired global consequences.