{"product_id":"shadow-state-book-luke-harding-9780062966001","title":"Shadow State","description":"\u003cp\u003eA\u003cbr\u003e thrilling account of how Russia is waging a hidden war against America and the\u003cbr\u003e West, using espionage, corruption, fake news, and KGB-style murder\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarch\u003cbr\u003e 2018. Two Russian assassins arrive in a provincial English city to kill a\u003cbr\u003e former officer from Russia's GRU intelligence agency. His crime? Passing\u003cbr\u003e secrets to British spies. The poison? A lethal nerve agent, novichok. The\u003cbr\u003e attempted execution was a reminder - as if one were needed - of Russia's contempt\u003cbr\u003e for international norms. The Soviet Union and its doctrine are long gone, but\u003cbr\u003e the playbook used by the Kremlin's spies during that long confrontation with\u003cbr\u003e the West is back. And the underlying goal remains the same: to undermine\u003cbr\u003e democracy and exploit divisions within American and European society and\u003cbr\u003e politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoscow's support for Donald\u003cbr\u003e Trump in the 2016 presidential election has grown into the biggest political\u003cbr\u003e scandal of modern times. Its American players are well-known. In Shadow\u003cbr\u003e State, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Luke Harding reveals\u003cbr\u003e the Russians behind the story: the spies, hackers and internet trolls. Harding\u003cbr\u003e charts how the Kremlin has updated Communist-era methods of influence and\u003cbr\u003e propaganda for the age of Facebook and Twitter, and considers the compelling\u003cbr\u003e question of our age: what exactly does Vladimir Putin have on President Trump?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eSimilar to those of the Cold\u003cbr\u003e War, Putin's ambitions are truly global. His emissaries include oligarchs, bankers,\u003cbr\u003e lawyers, mercenaries, and agents of influence. They roam from Salisbury to\u003cbr\u003e Helsinki, Ukraine to Central Africa, London to Washington, D.C. Shadow State\u003cbr\u003e is the singular account of how the Kremlin seeks to reshape the world, to\u003cbr\u003e divide the US from its European friends, and to remake America in its own dark\u003cbr\u003e and kleptocratic image. This is an essential read for anyone who wants to\u003cbr\u003e understand how our politics came to be so chaotic and divided. Nothing less\u003cbr\u003e than the future of Western democracy is at stake.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49577419211025,"sku":"GOR011456257","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49921282146577,"sku":"GOR013382287","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49923334308113,"sku":"GOR011179769","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50098161287441,"sku":"CIN0062966006VG","price":4.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51415443112209,"sku":"CIN0062966006G","price":4.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0062966006.jpg?v=1750811184","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/shadow-state-book-luke-harding-9780062966001","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}