The Skripal Files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy Audiobook (Free)

CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE Ideal POLITICS BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES

‘A scrupulous little bit of reporting, necessary, timely and very sobering’ John Le Carré

Who is Sergei Skripal?

Agent. Prisoner. Target.

The Skripal Data files tells the storyplot of Sergei Skripal, the complex and mysterious victim from this year’s most explosive news story. Mark Urban interviewed Skripal in the months prior to the poisoning and points out how Skripal’s existence has arrive to define the new spy battle between Russia as well as the West.

4 about The Skripal Data files: THE LIFE SPAN and Near Loss of life of a Russian Spy March 2018, Salisbury, England.

Sergei Skripal and his child Yulia were enjoying a uncommon and peaceful Sunday spent collectively, completely unaware that that they had been poisoned with the lethal nerve agent Novichok. Hours afterwards both were discovered slumped on the park bench near death.

Pursuing their attempted murders on British soil, Russia was publicly accused with the West of carrying out the attack, marking a new low for international relations between your two since the end of the Cold War.

The Skripal Files is the definitive account of how Skripal’s story fits in to the wider context of the brand new spy war between Russia and the Western world. The publication explores enough time Skripal spent as a spy in the Russian armed forces intelligence, how he was turned to work as a realtor by MI6, his imprisonment in Russia and his eventual release within a spy-swap that could provide him to Salisbury where, on that fateful day, he and his little girl discovered themselves fighting because of their lives.

‘With respect to traitors, they will kick the bucket independently, I assure you . Whatever thirty pieces of silver those individuals may have obtained, they will stick in their neck.’

Vladimir Putin, 2010