The Skripal Files

<p><b>'A scrupulous piece of reporting, necessary, timely and very sobering' John Le Carr</b><b>é</b></p><p>A <i>Sunday Times</i> Best Book of 2018</p><p>4 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.</p><p>Russia are publicly accused of carrying out the attack by the British government, sparking a diplomatic crisis between Russia and the West.</p><p>Then 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?</p><p>In <i>The Skripal Files</i> Mark Urban explains the most shocking espionage incident in a decade. Based on interviews with Sergei before the Salisbury poisonings, Urban describes precisely how