The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination overseas — while Western spies watched in horror as their governments didn’t protect from the threat

They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England. These were wrong. One by one, the Russian oligarchs, dissidents, and gangsters who fled to Britain after Vladimir Putin came to power dropped inactive in strange or suspicious conditions. One by one, their British lawyers and fixers met about From Russia with Bloodstream: The Kremlin’s Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin’s Secret War over the Western similarly grisly ends. Yet, one by one, the British authorities shut down every investigation-and carried on courting the Kremlin.

The spies in the riverside headquarters of MI6 looked on with horror as the scope from the Kremlin’s global killing campaign became all too clear. And, over the Atlantic, American intelligence officials viewed with mounting alarm as the systems piled up, concerned the fact that tide of loss of life could spread to america. Those anxieties intensified whenever a one-time Kremlin henchman was found bludgeoned to death inside a Washington, D.C. penthouse. But it wasn’t until Putin’s assassins unleashed a fatal chemical weapon around the streets of Britain, endangering a huge selection of people of the general public within a failed try to slay the double agent Sergei Skripal, that Traditional western governments were finally pressured to admit that this killing had spun out of control.

Unflinchingly documenting the growing web of death about British and American soil, Heidi Blake bravely exposes the Kremlin’s assassination campaign within Putin’s ruthless pursuit of global dominance-and reveals why Western governments have didn’t stop the bloodshed. The unforgettable story that emerges whisks us from London’s high-end dance clubs to Miami’s million-dollar hideouts, eventually rendering a bone-chilling family portrait of money, betrayal, and murder, written with the speed and propulsive power of a thriller.

Based on a huge trove of unpublished documents, hand bags of discarded police evidence, and interviews with a huge selection of insiders, this heart-stopping international investigation uncovers probably one of the most important- and terrifying-geopolitical stories of our period.