Publication Date: 02/01/2025 ISBN: 9781805330110 Category:

The Wizard of the Kremlin

Giuliano da Empoli, Willard Wood

Publisher: Pushkin Press
Publication Date: 02/01/2025 ISBN: 9781805330110 Category:
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THE TIMES BESTSELLER

‘A riveting peek into how power actually works in Russia’ David McCloskey, author of Moscow X

‘A great novel, casting light on the creatures that crawl and slither behind the Kremlin’s walls. Read it’ John Sweeney, author of Killer in the Kremlin

Soon to be a major motion picture

They call him the Wizard of the Kremlin.

Working at the heart of Russian power, spin doctor Vadim Baranov has used his background in reality TV to turn the entire country into an avant-garde political stage. Here truth and lies, news and propaganda have become indistinguishable. But Vadim is growing increasingly entangled in the dark secret workings of the regime he has helped build, and now he is desperate to get out…

Sweeping from the fall of the Soviet Union to the invasion of Ukraine, this breathless story of politics and power has become an international sensation.

Publisher Review

‘A great book, casting light on the creatures that crawl and slither behind the Kremlins walls, on the mineral hardness of Putin, on the chaos engine that is his way of hurting us. Read this book and you will understand the Russian mind-fuck. Read it’ – John Sweeney

‘A captivating novel that sails close, perhaps too close, to reality’ – Financial Times, Books of the Year

‘His novel has become a guide – devoured by many western politicians – to the mindset of the Kremlin’ – Simon Kuper, Lunch with the FT

‘”You need to be credible, to get into a characters head and present their point of view… But it has to be entertaining, and it has to be convincing.” His book succeeds on both measures’ – Peter Conradi

‘[One of] the two finest books I read this year… Written from the perspective of Putins chief strategist, [it] details how the privatisations of the 1990s set the scene for the return of the Tsar’ – Maurice Glasman

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