The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: Espionage, Scandal, and the Crime of the Century

From two of the world’s leading intelligence and espionage historians comes the definitive—and most unsettling—account of the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

Exiled from the Soviet Union and living under constant threat, Leon Trotsky believed that by 1937 he had found sanctuary in Mexico City. What he did not see was the vast clandestine machinery Stalin had already set in motion—one that beyond Europe and, crucially, into the United States itself. Drawing on newly uncovered evidence, this bo...