 |
Londongrad |
|
| Price:
330 THB
|
|
|
The amazing true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich - told for the first time ever. A dazzling tale of incredible wealth, ferocious disputes, beautiful women, private jets, mega-yachts, the world's best footballers - and chauffeur-driven Range Rovers with tinted windows. A group of Russian oligarchs made colossal fortunes buccaneering after the collapse of communism - and many of them came to London to enjoy their new-found wealth. London degrees for the first time tells the true story of their journeys from Moscow and St Petersburg to mansions in Mayfair, Knightsbridge and Surrey - and takes you into a shimmering world of audacious multi-billion pound deals, outrageous spending and rancorous feuds. But while London's flashiest restaurants echoed to laughter and Russian Bond Street shop-owners totted up their profits, so darker events played themselves out. The killing of ex-KGB Alexander Litvinenko in London is to the death - in a helicopter crash he all but predicted - of Stephen Curtis, the lawyer to many of Britain's richest Russians, chilled London's Russians and many of those who know them.This is the story of how Russia's wealth was harvested and brought to London - some of it spent by Roman Abramovich on his beloved Chelsea Football Club, some of it spent by Boris Berezovsky in his battles with Russia's all-powerful Vladimir Putin. London degree is a must-read for anyone interested in how vast wealth is created, the luxury it can buy, and the power and intrigue it produces. |
||
|
Availability
In Stock: 1 Usually ships in:  |
||
| |
||
| |
||
Latest Books
230 THB
|
200 THB
|
160 THB
|
220 THB
|
200 THB
|
220 THB
|
Latest Reviews
I really don’t understand how this could possibly be longlisted for ‘The Man Booker prize’, with so much praise from various other literary sources and reviewers to boot. It is 483 pages long and not much seems to happen from start to finish. It held my interest in so much that I thought there was going to be some twists and turns towards the end, there weren’t.
What is the devastating effect on your life when, through no fault of your own, you lose everything — home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, money, credit cards, mobile phone — and you can never get them back? This is what happens to a young man called Adam Kindred...
The pulse-quickening new thriller from master of suspense Michael Connelly sees Harry Bosch plunged into the dangerous world of international terrorism. When a physicist is murdered in LA it seems the killer has no fear of publicity, leaving the body on The Mulholland overlook, a site with a stunning view over the city...
