''As he lay dying Alexander Litvinenko
solved his own murder and foresaw the future. A professional detective
on his last case, with himself as the victim, he worked out that he had
been poisoned in the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair, by
another former KGB detective, Andrei Lugovoi. He had thought they were
partners, investigating the connections between Putin’s Kremlin,
organised crime and money laundering in Europe but, he now realised,
Lugovoi was still taking orders from the people they were investigating.
As Litvinenko’s hair came out in clumps, as he found it increasingly
hard to open his mouth to talk, as he became yellow and shrivelled, he
cursed himself for letting his guard down: he had assumed he was safe
after receiving asylum and citizenship in the UK. But solving the crime,
Litvinenko understood, was only the beginning. Would the British
government risk undermining its financial interests by investigating his
death properly?..''
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