#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âĸ An explosive exposÊ that lays out the story behind the Steele Dossier, including Russiaâs decades-in-the-making political game to upend American democracy and the Trump administrationâs ties to Moscow.
âHardingâĻpresents a powerful case for Russian interference, and Trump campaign collusion, by collecting years of reporting on Trumpâs connections to Russia and putting it all together in a coherent narrative.â âThe Nation
December 2016. Luke Harding, the Guardian reporter and former Moscow bureau chief, quietly meets former MI6 officer Christopher Steele in a London pub to discuss President-elect Donald Trumpâs Russia connections. A month later, Steeleâs now-famous dossier sparks what may be the biggest scandal of the modern era. The names of the Americans involved are well-knownâPaul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, George Papadopoulos, Carter Pageâbut here Harding also shines a light on powerful Russian figures like Aras Agalarov, Natalia Veselnitskaya, and Sergey Kislyak, whose motivations and instructions may have been coming from the highest echelons of the Kremlin.
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Drawing on new material and his expert understanding of Moscow and its players, Harding takes the reader through every bizarre and disquieting detail of the âTrump-Russiaâ storyâan event so huge it involves international espionage, off-shore banks, sketchy real estate deals, the Miss Universe pageant, mobsters, money laundering, poisoned dissidents, computer hacking, and the most shocking election in American history.