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During a career spanning over four decades, he lived abroad for 28 years in switzerland, germany twice, turkey, zambia, lebanon, zimbabwe, kenya, south africa, greece, egypt, italy and france. After 389 pages, ive given up on terminal spy, the story of the murder of alexander. Read the terminal spy a true story of espionage, betrayal and murder by alan s. The books only notable flaw results from cowells need to share almost all of his admittedly impressive researchthe narrative occasionally drags and goes off on tangents. Litvinenko issued a dramatic deathbed statement accusing putin himself of engineering his murder. Mike newell prince of persia, harry potter and the goblet of fire, donnie brasco has signed on the write and direct a yettobeofficiallytitled feature film based on the book the terminal spy. A true story of espionage, betrayal and murder by alan s. Feb 17, 2010 newells film will be based on the book the terminal spy by the new york timess london bureau chief alan cowell, which is described as the definitive story of the assassination and of the. Cowell born 16 march 1947 is a british journalist and a former foreign correspondent for the new york times. Litvinenko, an obscure russian exile and critic of president vladimir putin, met some russians. In a pageturning narrative that reads like a thriller, an awardwinning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind t.
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