THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 • An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard First Book Prize
‘Reads like a legal thriller’ ESQUIRE
A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE
A FINALIST FOR THE MOORE PRIZE
A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy, exposing an arsenal of lethal weapons, some wielded on the streets, others in the courts and press’ NAOMI KLEIN
‘Essential reading’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS
How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them.
‘ESSENTIAL’ Amal Clooney‘AUTHORITATIVE’ Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC‘IMPORTANT ’Baroness Helena Kennedy KC‘COULD HARDLY BE MORE TIMELY’ Alan Rusbridger
