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Lethal in London
As Bulgarian emigre Georgi Markov waited for a bus on a busy London street in 1978, he felt a sharp pain on the back of his leg. Insect bite? Bee sting? He thought little of it at the moment. Four days later, his heart stopped. What had happened?
Markov, an outspoken critic of his country's communist government, had defected to the West 10 years earlier. Follow the chain of evidence to uncover how his voice was silenced... and by whom. |