Non-Fiction Books about Organized Crime (Study Guide) - Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within, the Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Blowing up Russia: Terror From Within, the Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, Honor Thy Father, Gomorrah, the Last Mafioso, Excellent Cadavers, Lords of the Levee, the French Connection, the Way of the Wiseguy, the Untouchables, the Shame of the Cities, Underboss, the Valachi Papers. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within (Russian: ) is a book written by Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky. The authors alleged that the Russian apartment bombings and other September 1999 terrorist acts were committed by the Federal Security Service. Litvinenko and Felshtinsky wrote that the bombings were a false flag operation intended to justify Second Chechen War and bring Vladimir Putin to power. The book was sponsored by Boris Berezovsky after his flight from Russia. The original Russian language book was published in 2002. According to an interview with Yuri Felshtinsky, he started collecting materials about the Russian apartment bombings in 2001 and did not think that FSB has anything to do with the terrorism acts . He was deeply disturbed after discovering that the bombings were in fact committed by the FSB. He consulted with Viktor Suvorov, a writer and former GRU officer. When asked: "Would you personally blow out the building with innocent people after receiving the order?," Suvorov replied: "Of course I would. That is our job. We always follow the order." Then Felshtinsky contacted Litvinenko who he knew from 1998 and who became a coauthor of the book. On December 29, 2003, Russian Interior Ministry and FSB units seized 4,376 copies of the book intended for Alexander Podrabinek's Prima news agency. FSB lieutenant Alexander Soima said that the book was confiscated as a material evide...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=963734