Luke Harding

Betrayal charts the dramatic collapse of the post-1945 international system. Ours is now a world in which Trump's America has endorsed Putin's land-grab in Ukraine, painted Europe as an enemy, and toppled and kidnapped Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro. Meanwhile, an anti-western alliance has taken shape featuring China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. Countries find themselves in an uncertain and dangerous era. It is a return to nineteenth century imperialism and spheres of influence - but with withering modern firepower. Written in thrilling style, this vital and clear-eyed book reports from the frontlines of a new age of conquest. Luke Harding visits villages in eastern Ukraine under Russian bombardment, talks to Greenlanders about a US takeover, tours the divided Korean peninsula and sits down with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Betrayal tells the story of presidents and ordinary people, caught up in conflict and war. Harding offers an essential guide to brutal Great Power politics and how it came back.

Betrayal charts the dramatic collapse of the post-1945 international system. Ours is now a world in which Trump's America has endorsed Putin's land-grab in Ukraine, painted Europe as an enemy, and toppled and kidnapped Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro. Meanwhile, an anti-western alliance has taken shape featuring China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. Countries find themselves in an uncertain and dangerous era. It is a return to nineteenth century imperialism and spheres of influence - but with withering modern firepower. Written in thrilling style, this vital and clear-eyed book reports from the frontlines of a new age of conquest. Luke Harding visits villages in eastern Ukraine under Russian bombardment, talks to Greenlanders about a US takeover, tours the divided Korean peninsula and sits down with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Betrayal tells the story of presidents and ordinary people, caught up in conflict and war. Harding offers an essential guide to brutal Great Power politics and how it came back.

Hyytävä tosielämän jännityskertomus nykyajan vakoojista - petoksesta, rohkeudesta ja salamurhista. He vaikuttavat tavallisilta matkailijoilta, toimittajilta ja liikemiehiltä. Todellisuudessa he ovat sotilaita, hakkereita ja oligarkkeja, jotka murhaavat, hyökkäävät verkossa sekä levittävät valeuutisia ja likaista rahaa. He ovat levittäytyneet kaikkialle maailmaan ja operoivat myös Suomessa. Kirjeenvaihtaja Luke Harding paljastaa Venäjän vakoojien verkoston, jonka avulla Vladimir Putin käy salaista sotaa länttä vastaan. Vakuuttavaan aineistoon pohjautuva kirja avaa Ukrainan tilannetta, vaalihäirintää, murhia ja henkilöitä niiden takana. Lisäksi se tuo esiin kaikenkirjavan joukon ihmisiä, joita on kiristetty tai lahjottu palvelemaan Venäjän etua. Oliko Yhdysvaltojen presidentti Donald J. Trump yksi heistä? Venäjän vakoojaverkosto on ainutlaatuinen teos jokaiselle, joka haluaa tietää, miten venäläiset vakoojat nykyisin työskentelevät.

DEN 23 FEBRUARI 2022 är Luke Harding på fest hos vänner i Kiev. Alla är oroliga, men ingen tror på ett ryskt anfall. Harding bryter upp vid midnatt och på väg hem ringer hans telefon. En insiderkälla meddelar lakoniskt: ”Det börjar klockan fyra.”Det blir inte mycket sömn den natten. Följande dag när alarmen ljuder gör Harding redan sina första intervjuer. Invasion är besläktad med Svetlana Aleksijevitj texter genom den stora mängden röster som kommer till tals. Harding intervjuar både mannen på gatan, soldaten vid fronten och personer med makt - såsom Volodymyr Zelenskyjs talskrivare Dmytro Lytvyn.Boken utforskar två mycket olika ledare: Zelenskyj och Putin. Den reder också ut de ofattbara konsekvenserna av den ryska attacken: Sverige och Finland övergav sin neutralitet, Tyskland sin pacifism, Storbritannien sin Brexitisolering. Harding har redan i tidigare böcker varnat för Putins mörka avsikter. Nu analyserar han Putins strategi och beskriver utan omsvep Rysslands ambition att rita om gränserna.Harding skriver dessutom ett alldeles nytt kapitel för den svenskspråkiga upplagan, där han tar upp situationen i Ukraina år 2024.

A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGThe first book of reportage from the front line of the Ukraine war. This is a powerful, moving first draft of history written by the award-winning Guardian journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and Shadow State.'An excellent, moving account of an ongoing tragedy.' ANNE APPLEBAUM'Compelling, important and heartbreaking.' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE'Essential reading.' ELIOT HIGGINS, founder of Bellingcat'Brilliant.' ANDREY KURKOVFor months, the omens had pointed in one scarcely believable direction: Russia was about to invade Ukraine. And yet, the world was stunned by the epochal scale of the assault that began in February 2022. It was an attempt by one nation to devour another.Invasion is Luke Harding's compelling chronicle of the war that changed everything. For this breathtaking work of reportage he spent months reporting on the ground during the build up to the conflict and afterward; his book tells of the initial days of shock and panic, the grim reality of this ongoing war, and the unheard human stories behind the headlines. Invasion also offers insightful portraits of the the war's two great personalities. One, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is an actor-turned-president who rallied support on a global stage. The other, Vladimir Putin, is a dictator who dwells in a strange and unreachable realm. Harding examines the ideological, religious and personal reasons behind Putin's decision to invade. And he confronts a crucial question: which side will prevail in this terrible war?With the ripple effects of the largest armed conflict in Europe since 1945 already being felt beyond Ukraine and Russia's borders, it is more vital than ever to understand how the situation on the front line will have profound effects for us all. Written in Luke Harding's starkly transfixing style, Invasion makes for essential reading.*Includes a brand new chapter for the paperback edition****Author royalties from this edition will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee's Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

Bestseller-kirjailijan väkevä kuvaus sodasta joka muutti kaiken.The Guardianin kirjeenvaihtajana Ukrainassa työskennellyt bestseller-tietokirjailija Luke Harding analysoi tarkasti Ukrainan sodan seurauksia Ukrainalle, Venäjälle ja koko maailmalle. Hardingin aiempi teos Venäjän vakoojaverkosto oli yksi myydyimmistä tietokirjoista Suomessa vuonna 2021.Harding kirjoittaa ajasta ennen hyökkäyksen alkua, ensimmäisistä sokin täyttämistä kuukausista, surusta ja sodan julmasta todellisuudesta. Kirja sisältää ennen kuulemattomia tarinoita uutisotsikoiden takaa ja käy läpi kahden hyvin erilaisen johtajan, Volodymyr Zelenskyin ja Vladimir Putinin, taustat. Putinin pimeistä päämääristä jo aiemmissa kirjoissaan varoittanut Harding avaa nyt Putinin sotastrategiaan johtaneet syyt. Lisäksi hän käsittelee sodan seurauksia, joista yksi on Suomen hakemus Naton jäsenmaaksi.Teos on väkevä kuvaus Euroopan laajimmasta aseellisesta konfliktista toisen maailmansodan jälkeen. Taistelukenttä ulottuu maalta merelle ja taivaalle ja on sisältänyt niin Mariupolin ja Butsan julmuudet kuin Hersonin ja Donbasin etulinjat. Sodan mainingit kantautuvat voimakkaina Ukrainan ja Venäjän rajojen ulkopuolelle, ja onkin tärkeää ymmärtää, miten tilanne Ukrainan etulinjassa vaikuttaa meihin kaikkiin.

New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding's personal, frontline reporting on Russia's harrowing invasion of Ukraine, the biggest news event of the year and an inflection point in international politics "An excellent, moving account of an ongoing tragedy." --Anne Applebaum, New York Times bestselling author of Twilight of Democracy In a damning, inspiring, and breathtaking narrative of what is likely to be a turning point for Europe--and the world--Guardian correspondent and New York Times bestselling author Luke Harding reports firsthand on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. When, just before dawn on February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launched a series of brutal attacks, Harding was there, on the ground in Kyiv. But this senseless violence was met with astounding resilience--from, among others, the country's embattled president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy--and the courage of a people preparedi to risk everything to preserve their nation's freedom. Here are piercing portraits of the leaders on both sides of this monumental struggle, a haunting depiction of the atrocities in Bucha and elsewhere, and an intimate glimpse into the ordinary lives being impacted by the biggest conflict in Europe since the Second World War. Harding captures this crucial moment in history with candor, insight, and an unwavering focus on the human stories that lie at its heart.

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Luke Harding's haunting, brilliant account of the insidious methods used against him by a resurgent Kremlin which led to him becoming the first western reporter to be deported from Russia since the days of the Cold War. FEATURING A NEW PREFACE FROM THE AUTHOR'A courageous and explosive exposé.'ORLANDO FIGES'Luke Harding is one of the best reporters in the world.'ROBERT SAVIANO'An essential read.'NEW STATESMANIn 2007, Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service - the successor to the KGB - had broken into his flat. He found himself tailed by men in cheap leather jackets, bugged, and even summoned to Lefortovo, the KGB's notorious prison.The break-in was the beginning of an extraordinary psychological war against the journalist and his family. Vladimir Putin's spies used tactics developed by the KGB and perfected in the 1970s by the Stasi, East Germany's sinister secret police. This clandestine campaign burst into the open in 2011 when the Kremlin expelled Harding from Moscow.Luke Harding's Mafia State gives a unique, personal and compelling portrait of today's Russia, two decades after the end of communism, that reads like a spy thriller.

**Pre-order INVASION: RUSSIA'S BLOODY WAR AND UKRAINE'S FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL now**FROM THE AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF COLLUSION A gripping investigative account of how Russia's spies helped elect Donald Trump, backed Brexit, murdered enemies and threatened the very basis of western democracy.NEW AND UPDATED EDITION'Luke Harding is one of the best reporters in the world . . . [they are] an oustanding writer, stuck in the beating heart of political and criminal power, sinking their teeth in and never letting go.'ROBERT SAVIANO'Shadow State raises fresh questions about the way the UK government has handled claims of Kremlin interference in Britain's democratic processes.' FINANCIAL TIMES'If you doubt that hostile foreign powers were happy to assist Britain into decline, I recommend Shadow State . . . dazzling and meticulous.'OBSERVER'Excellent.' THE SCOTSMAN'Reads like a thriller.' IRISH TIMES'Detailed and compelling.' GUARDIAN***No terrorist group has deployed a nerve agent in a civilian area or used a radioactive mini-bomb in London. The Kremlin has done both.Shadow State is a riveting and alarming investigation into the methods Russia has used to wage an increasingly bold war in the UK and beyond. In this updated edition, featuring a new afterword, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Luke Harding uncovers fake news, cyber intrusions, dirty money and ruthless spies in disguise, showing how Vladimir Putin helped elect Donald Trump, backed Brexit, and now threatens the very basis of Western democracy itself.'A superb piece of work . . . essential reading for anyone who cares for his country.'JOHN LE CARRÉ, on Collusion

Now in paperback, a thrilling account of how Russia is waging a hidden war against America and the West, using espionage, corruption, fake news, and KGB-style murder March 2018. Two Russian assassins arrive in a provincial English city to kill a former officer from Russia's GRU intelligence agency. His crime? Passing secrets to British spies. The poison? A lethal nerve agent, novichok. The attempted execution was a reminder - as if one were needed - of Russia's contempt for international norms. The Soviet Union and its doctrine are long gone, but the playbook used by the Kremlin's spies during that long confrontation with the West is back. And the underlying goal remains the same: to undermine democracy and exploit divisions within American and European society and politics. Moscow's support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election has grown into the biggest political scandal of modern times. Its American players are well-known. In Shadow State, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Luke Harding reveals the Russians behind the story: the spies, hackers and internet trolls. Harding charts how the Kremlin has updated Communist-era methods of influence and propaganda for the age of Facebook and Twitter, and considers the compelling question of our age: what exactly does Vladimir Putin have on President Trump? Similar to those of the Cold War, Putin's ambitions are truly global. His emissaries include oligarchs, bankers, lawyers, mercenaries, and agents of influence. They roam from Salisbury to Helsinki, Ukraine to Central Africa, London to Washington, D.C. Shadow State is the singular account of how the Kremlin seeks to reshape the world, to divide the US from its European friends, and to remake America in its own dark and kleptocratic image. This is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand how our politics came to be so chaotic and divided. Nothing less than the future of Western democracy is at stake.

En alarmerende og viktig beretning om hvordan Russland ved hjelp av spionasje, korrupsjon, falske nyheter og drap i KGB-stil forsøker å destabilisere Vesten. Eksemplene på Russlands åpenlyse destabiliseringspolitikk er mange, fra drapet på Litvinenko til mordforsøket på Navalnyj, fra hackingen av Stortinget til manipuleringen av valget i USA. Men å finne frem til hvem som utfører forbrytelsene og hvem som står bak ordrene har ikke alltid vært like enkelt. I Skyggestaten blir vi med den prisbelønte journalisten Luke Harding på jakt etter gjerningsmennene. I reneste thrillerstil følger vi attentatmenn, spioner og hackere rundt om i verden som vanlige turister, forretningsmenn og journalister på dødelige oppdrag fra Kreml. Vi følger dem fra Salisbury til Helsinki, fra Ukraina til Den sentralafrikanske republikk, fra London til Washington D.C. Det gir en skremmende innsikt i hvordan Russland med Vladimir Putin ved makten aktivt søker å rydde av veien sine fiender og destabilisere vestlige demokratier. Boken kommer med en nyskrevet epilog skrevet spesielt for den norske utgaven.

Hyytävä tosielämän jännityskertomus nykyajan vakoojista - petoksesta, rohkeudesta ja salamurhista.He vaikuttavat tavallisilta matkailijoilta, toimittajilta ja liikemiehiltä. Todellisuudessa he ovat sotilaita, hakkereita ja oligarkkeja, jotka murhaavat, hyökkäävät verkossa sekä levittävät valeuutisia ja likaista rahaa. He ovat levittäytyneet kaikkialle maailmaan ja operoivat myös Suomessa.Kirjeenvaihtaja Luke Harding paljastaa Venäjän vakoojien verkoston, jonka avulla Vladimir Putin käy salaista sotaa länttä vastaan. Vakuuttavaan aineistoon pohjautuva kirja avaa Ukrainan tilannetta, vaalihäirintää, murhia ja henkilöitä niiden takana. Lisäksi se tuo esiin kaikenkirjavan joukon ihmisiä, joita on kiristetty tai lahjottu palvelemaan Venäjän etua. Oliko Yhdysvaltojen presidentti Donald J. Trump yksi heistä?Venäjän vakoojaverkosto on ainutlaatuinen teos jokaiselle, joka haluaa tietää, miten venäläiset vakoojat nykyisin työskentelevät.

A thrilling account of how Russia is waging a hidden war against America and the West, using espionage, corruption, fake news, and KGB-style murderMarch 2018. Two Russian assassins arrive in a provincial English city to kill a former officer from Russia's GRU intelligence agency. His crime? Passing secrets to British spies. The poison? A lethal nerve agent, novichok. The attempted execution was a reminder - as if one were needed - of Russia's contempt for international norms. The Soviet Union and its doctrine are long gone, but the playbook used by the Kremlin's spies during that long confrontation with the West is back. And the underlying goal remains the same: to undermine democracy and exploit divisions within American and European society and politics. Moscow's support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election has grown into the biggest political scandal of modern times. Its American players are well-known. In Shadow State, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Luke Harding reveals the Russians behind the story: the spies, hackers and internet trolls. Harding charts how the Kremlin has updated Communist-era methods of influence and propaganda for the age of Facebook and Twitter, and considers the compelling question of our age: what exactly does Vladimir Putin have on President Trump?Similar to those of the Cold War, Putin's ambitions are truly global. His emissaries include oligarchs, bankers, lawyers, mercenaries, and agents of influence. They roam from Salisbury to Helsinki, Ukraine to Central Africa, London to Washington, D.C. Shadow State is the singular account of how the Kremlin seeks to reshape the world, to divide the US from its European friends, and to remake America in its own dark and kleptocratic image. This is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand how our politics came to be so chaotic and divided. Nothing less than the future of Western democracy is at stake.

A thrilling account of how Russia is waging a hidden war against America and the West, using espionage, corruption, fake news, and KGB-style murder March 2018. Two Russian assassins arrive in a provincial English city to kill a former officer from Russia's GRU intelligence agency. His crime? Passing secrets to British spies. The poison? A lethal nerve agent, novichok. The attempted execution was a reminder - as if one were needed - of Russia's contempt for international norms. The Soviet Union and its doctrine are long gone, but the playbook used by the Kremlin's spies during that long confrontation with the West is back. And the underlying goal remains the same: to undermine democracy and exploit divisions within American and European society and politics. Moscow's support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election has grown into the biggest political scandal of modern times. Its American players are well-known. In Shadow State, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Luke Harding reveals the Russians behind the story: the spies, hackers and internet trolls. Harding charts how the Kremlin has updated Communist-era methods of influence and propaganda for the age of Facebook and Twitter, and considers the compelling question of our age: what exactly does Vladimir Putin have on President Trump? Similar to those of the Cold War, Putin's ambitions are truly global. His emissaries include oligarchs, bankers, lawyers, mercenaries, and agents of influence. They roam from Salisbury to Helsinki, Ukraine to Central Africa, London to Washington, D.C. Shadow State is the singular account of how the Kremlin seeks to reshape the world, to divide the US from its European friends, and to remake America in its own dark and kleptocratic image. This is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand how our politics came to be so chaotic and divided. Nothing less than the future of Western democracy is at stake.

A shocking assassination in the heart of London. In a bizarre mix of high-stakes global politics and radioactive villainy, a man pays with his life.At this time of global crises and a looming new Cold War, A Very Expensive Poison sends us careering through the shadowy world of international espionage from Moscow to Mayfair.Lucy Prebble (Enron, The Effect) brings a shocking story to the stage, adapted from the book by Luke Harding, with an astute mix of real events, vaudeville and thriller. This edition was published to coincide with the World Premiere at the Old Vic Theatre, London, in 2019.

Subjugate or Exterminate! is an authoritative first-hand account of the Russo-Chechen conflict by a Chechen leader who played a central role in all the main events. Akhmed Zakayev rose rapidly from an actor of Shakespearean roles to Commander of the Western Group for the Defense of Ichkeria, and later served as Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya and, in exile, as Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI). It describes how the Kremlin set about discrediting and destroying a democratic government by interacting with criminal gangs and fomenting Islamist forces to split the Chechen independence movement in a perverse reversal of the “War on Terror.”Akhmed Zakayev’s memoir begins with a historical survey of the fraught relations between the Chechens and the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, up to the collapse of the USSR. The advent of Gorbachev’s Perestroika raised hopes that independence might enable Chechnya to end centuries of oppression and exploitation.Russia’s first war against Chechnya (1994-1996), initially conceived by the military as a way of disguising the large-scale theft and embezzlement of funds from illegal sales of Soviet armaments during the withdrawal from East Germany, ended in humiliating defeat for Russia. Thereafter, Russia set about subverting the democratically elected government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria by instigating the gruesome murder of Western humanitarian aid workers and business partners, and by financing criminal gangs and anti-democratic Islamist groups that the ChRI police were unable to subdue. Interference by nationals of countries in the Middle East caused further disruption. In August 1999, Russia launched a brutal second war in Chechnya, on grounds widely believed to be fabricated and characterized by widespread war crimes. The West did not intervene. This is an eyewitness account of the dangers faced by the Chechen leaders as they tried to resist and negotiate with a treacherous opponent. It ends in the year 2000, with Vladimir Putin’s election as Russia’s president.

Subjugate or Exterminate! is an authoritative first-hand account of the Russo-Chechen conflict by a Chechen leader who played a central role in all the main events. Akhmed Zakayev rose rapidly from an actor of Shakespearean roles to Commander of the Western Group for the Defense of Ichkeria, and later served as Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya and, in exile, as Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI). It describes how the Kremlin set about discrediting and destroying a democratic government by interacting with criminal gangs and fomenting Islamist forces to split the Chechen independence movement in a perverse reversal of the “War on Terror.”Akhmed Zakayev’s memoir begins with a historical survey of the fraught relations between the Chechens and the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, up to the collapse of the USSR. The advent of Gorbachev’s Perestroika raised hopes that independence might enable Chechnya to end centuries of oppression and exploitation.Russia’s first war against Chechnya (1994-1996), initially conceived by the military as a way of disguising the large-scale theft and embezzlement of funds from illegal sales of Soviet armaments during the withdrawal from East Germany, ended in humiliating defeat for Russia. Thereafter, Russia set about subverting the democratically elected government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria by instigating the gruesome murder of Western humanitarian aid workers and business partners, and by financing criminal gangs and anti-democratic Islamist groups that the ChRI police were unable to subdue. Interference by nationals of countries in the Middle East caused further disruption. In August 1999, Russia launched a brutal second war in Chechnya, on grounds widely believed to be fabricated and characterized by widespread war crimes. The West did not intervene. This is an eyewitness account of the dangers faced by the Chechen leaders as they tried to resist and negotiate with a treacherous opponent. It ends in the year 2000, with Vladimir Putin’s election as Russia’s president.

**Pre-order INVASION: RUSSIA'S BLOODY WAR AND UKRAINE'S FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL now**#1 New York Times Bestseller'It's a superb piece of work, wonderfully done and essential reading for anyone who cares for his country.