Killer in the Kremlin: The instant bestseller - a gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny

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He may be quirky and at times controversial, but Sweeney is undeniably brave and has achieved more than most journalists can dream of. I am a student of the causes of WW1. One thing I am certain of is that if the Kaiser, the Emperor, the Tsar and the Caliphate knew where they would be five years hence from 2014, they would have done their utmost to have stopped that war from starting. I wonder if Putin will be in a similar situation. Once you start a war you never know where it will take you. In a disturbing exposé of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putin's long war. John Sweeney is a distinguished award winning investigative journalist, working in the past for many news outlets including BBC’s Panorama and Newsnight as well as Channel 4’s Dispatches. He has reported fearlessly from Chechnya and Ukraine and witnessed scenes that no-one should see.

That tenacity is what won him Private Eye’s first Paul Foot Award in 2005 for his four-year investigation into mothers wrongly imprisoned over the cot deaths of their children, among other prizes. John Sweeney is an award-winning journalist and author, who brings a novel to the layman that truly confirms the Russian powers mindset - "Oderint dum metuant. Let them hate so long as they fear." While unreservedly condemning his brutal murder I should admit that Nemtsov did not make a similar impression on me. When I spoke to him of the bravery of Yuri Shchekochikhin, Nemtsov scoffed and put down his death, not to poisoning, but to his “fondness for Armenian brandy”. It was a comment that lowered him in my estimation. Alyona went to say goodbye to her lover in the morgue. “It was a big place, a huge hall. There were bodies on slabs due to be buried the next day. I looked around. There were about 20 people but I couldn’t find Yuri. I went up to the supervisor and explained that I might be in the wrong place as I couldn’t find him. Through the corner of my eye I saw a dear old lady lying on a slab. The strangest thing, she reminded me of my grandma who passed away a long time ago. The curious resemblance of the two old ladies hit me. In my worst nightmares, I could never, ever have imagined that the dear old lady was in fact Yuri.”Other correspondents also have a sense of humour, he argues, they just have a different approach. “I very much admire Orla Guerin; I think she’s great. She only does doom and gloom on screen. Actually, when you meet her outside of that, she’s a riot.” John Sweeney enjoying his break in Italy (Photo: John Sweeney) Face-to-face with Vladimir Putin a Royal Television Society prize (2004) for "Angela's Hope," a BBC One documentary about a woman wrongly convicted of murdering her three babies. In a disturbing expose of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putin's long war. Sweeney, a much travelled, prolific and award winning journalist, lays out, in entertaining and informative detail, just what’s going on in the Kremlin, and it isn’t pretty.

He accuses the bureau of siding with the Russian government to preserve its access to insiders. “The BBC Moscow office’s relationship with the Kremlin… there was something wrong and rotten about it,” he says.A dictator, bent on rebuilding an empire, will never erase the people's love for liberty. This man cannot remain in power.' JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES