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Mon Jan 15 -

THE BOOK HE LEFT BEHIND -

Litvinenko's Blowing up Russia, has been published in London. It is his account of how Putin rose to power.

*Litvinenko describes a supposedly democratic Russia 'absolutely' in the grip of the FSB, with bodies all over the place ­ gunned down in doorways, beheaded and buried in Yaroslavl peat bogs, or poisoned with radioactive material from a special laboratory at 42 Krasnobogatyrskaya Street in Moscow.*

It is reviewed here by Nicholas Shakespeare who says "it smacks of truth." Expected Debut: Jan 19th by Gibson Square.

Elsewhere, on the News Desk page in the People section, The First Post reports that the story has been optioned by Hollywood and: *Johnny Depp is set to play poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko* in the movie.
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