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Masha Gessen: The man without a face (2012, Riverhead Books) 4 stars

This is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the …

I learned: that there was a string of bombings in Russian high-rise apartments during 1999, right before Putin's election. At the time, it was widely assumed that these were the work of Chechnyan separatists, but the book reveals convincing evidence that it was really the KGB. Trying to get their man in, apparently.