{"product_id":"the-skripal-files-by-mark-urban-9781529006926","title":"The Skripal Files","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA scrupulous piece of reporting, necessary, timely and very sobering\u003c\/em\u003e — John Le Carré\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Sunday Times Best Book of 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAgent. Prisoner. Target. Who is Sergei Skripal?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e4 March 2018, Salisbury, England. A man and his daughter are found slumped on a bench, poisoned by the deadly nerve agent Novichok. He was a Russian national that became a MI6 spy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRussia are publicly accused of carrying out the attack by the British government, sparking a diplomatic crisis between Russia and the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen two innocent people find a discarded perfume bottle used in the attack and one of them, Dawn Sturgess, tragically dies. It is now a murder investigation. How exactly did we get here?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased on interviews with Sergei before his poisoning, Mark Urban explains the most shocking espionage incident in a decade. Describing precisely how an otherwise loyal Russian intelligence officer was turned into an agent by MI6, how Skripal was betrayed so that he found himself in a Siberian prison, and why, years later, was he was targeted for assassination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244686815468,"sku":"9781529006926","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529006926-the-skripal-files-1.jpg?v=1788010223","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-skripal-files-by-mark-urban-9781529006926","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}