The umbrella murder : the hunt for the Cold War's most notorious killer
Skotte, Ulrik2024
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September 1978: exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered in broad daylight on Waterloo Bridge, London with a poison-tipped umbrella. It would become the most infamous unsolved killing of the Cold War. Many years later, young journalist Ulrik Skotte is approached with explosive new information about a man alleged to be responsible for Markov's death - a spy code-named Piccadilly who worked for the Bulgarian secret service. This one meeting would launch Skotte into a hunt for the killer lasting more than a quarter of a century, bringing him face-to-face with eccentric conspiracy theorists, a washed-up former dictator, ageing Danish spooks - and, ultimately, with Agent Piccadilly himself.
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London : WH Allen, 2024.London : WH Allen, 2024.
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336 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780753560167 (hbk)
Dewey class:
327.12499
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English
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BRN:
2927091