Man Without a Face, Paperback

A brave and revelatory account of how a small-minded, low level KGB operative came to control the world's largest country and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making Russia once more a threat to her own people and to the world. 'Gessen's engaging prose combines a native's passion with a mordant wit and caustic understatement that are characteristically Russian' }Daily Telegraph{