The Umbrella Murder : The Hunt for the Cold War's Most Notorious Killer

Author(s): Skotte, Ulrik,
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 11/07/2024,
Pagination: 336 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: W H Allen,
Published By: Ebury Publishing,
Book Classification: Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000
Dimensions: 245 x 160 x 30mm
Weight: 562g
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780753560167

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'This masterly investigation, spanning 30 years, into the assassination of a cold war dissident, Georgi Markov, in London in 1978 exposes an assassin worthy of James Bond' -Observer, Book of the WeekLondon, September 1978: exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered in broad daylight on Waterloo Bridge with what appears to be a poison-tipped umbrella. It would become the most infamous unsolved killing of the Cold War.

Many years later, young journalist Ulrik Skotte is approached with explosive new information about a man alleged to be responsible for Markov’s death – a spy code-named Piccadilly who worked for the Bulgarian secret service. This meeting launched Skotte into a hunt for the killer lasting more than a quarter of a century, bringing him face to face with eccentric conspiracy theorists, a washed-up former dictator, ageing Danish spooks – and, ultimately, with Agent Piccadilly himself.

Drawing on an incredible cache of original documents, interviews and archive material, The Umbrella Murder provides jaw-dropping answers to questions that have persisted for nearly five decades: who killed Georgi Markov And who has been protecting the assassin ever since