Author: Martin Sixsmith<br />File Type: pdf<br />On 7 December 2006, in a Highgate Cemetery drenched with London rain, a Russian was buried within a stones throw of the grave of Karl Marx. He was Alexander Litvinenko, Sasha to his friends, a boy from the deep Russian provinces who rose through the ranks of the worlds most feared security service. Litvinenko was the man who denounced murder and corruption in the Russian government, fled from the wrath of the Kremlin, came to London and took the shilling of Moscows avowed enemy Now he was a martyr, condemned by foes unknown to an agonised death in a hospital bed thousands of miles from home. Martin Sixsmith draws on his long experience as the BBCs Moscow correspondent, and contact with key London-based Russians, to dissect Alexander Litvinenkos murder. Myriad theories have been put forward since he died, but the story goes back to 2000 when hostilities were declared between the Kremlin and its political opponents. This is a war that has blown hot and cold for over seven years a war that has pitted some of Russias strongest, richest men against the most powerful president Russia has had since Josef Stalin. The Litvinenko File is a gripping, powerful inside account of a shocking act of murder, when Russias war with itself spilled over onto the streets of London and made the world take notice.