A new paperback edition of the acclaimed, bestselling novel – a stunning work of political fiction that reads like a thriller, about the rise to power of Putin’s notorious spin doctor.

They call him the Wizard of the Kremlin. Working at the heart of Russian power, the enigmatic Vadim Baranov-Putin’s chief spin doctor-has used his background in reality TV to turn the entire country into an avant-garde political stage. Here truth and lies, news and propaganda, have become indistinguishable. But Vadim is growing increasingly entangled in the dark secret workings of the regime he has helped build, and now he is desperate to get out…