Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare

"Extraordinary."-CHRIS MILLER, author of Chip War

"Incredible."-ANNIE JACOBSEN, author of Nuclear War, via X

From John Lechner, "an amazingly bold reporter" (Adam Hochschild), the shocking inside story of how the Wagner Group made private military companies inextricable from Russia's anti-Western foreign strategy.

In 2014, a well-trained, mysterious band of mercenaries arrived in Ukraine, part of Russia's first attempt to claim the country as its own. Upon ceasefire, the “Wagner Group” faded...