An urgent account of Putin's brutal regime and his imperialist ambitions, following his rise from KGB thug to dictator and war criminal. This book will include exclusive first-hand reporting and eyewitness testimony from Ukraine, as well as every other major act of Russian aggression in recent times. John Sweeney is an award-winning journalist who has received global acclaim for his reporting from Kyiv, where he is still based. He is one of the most prominent journalists following Putin's invasion of Ukraine from the ground, and has been reporting on Putin's Russia for almost thirty years.