Using Alexander Litvinenko's testimony, Yuri Felshtinsky wrote the international bestseller Blowing up Russia about the rigged election of Vladimir Putin in 2001.In his exceptional new book, The Age of Assassins, Felshtinsky investigates how Russia under Putin became the first country in history to be ruled by its secret service. Using first-hand information from former oligarchs and KGB spies, he describes how the power has shifted away from the oligarchs to a small network of spies. Together they have created a power that was unimaginable even under Russian Communism.