Hunt the Banker: The Confessions of a Russian Ex-Oligarch

Alexander Lebedev is best known as the Russian businessman who bought the Evening Standard and The Independent newspapers. A former KGB intelligence officer in the USSR’s London Embassy, the book is mainly a memoir of Lebedev's hair-raising experiences as someone who aspires to show that an "honest banker" is not an oxymoron. He describes the dirty tricks used against him and the attempt to assassinate him and details how the Russian and international political and business elite live. Lebe...