Praise for Mark Galeotti’s previous books

“Unlike most such accounts, Galeotti’s manages to completely overturn the conventional wisdom. The result is easily the shrewdest and most insightful analysis yet of Putin’s policymaking.”

—Foreign Affairs on We Need to Talk About Putin

“Dynamic, authoritative and often witty.”

—The Scotsman on We Need to Talk About Putin

“Galeotti sketches a bleak, but convincing picture of the man in the Kremlin and the political system that he dominates.”

—The Times (UK) on We Need to Talk About Putin

“This book could not be more relevant.... Brilliant, gripping, astonishingly rich...filled with flamboyant gangsters, devious rackets, vicious hits, secret policemen, Kremlin leaders and criminal slang, at once a true-crime chronicle, a work of scholarship, an anthropological study, a political history of the fused underworld and upper echelons of Russian power—and essential reading.”

—Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard (UK), on The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia

“In these days of ever more bizarre Russian attacks, it reads like the essential companion to a bewildering and aggressive new world.”

—The Spectator (UK) on The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia

“The Vory is a timely, readable and important text for anyone thinking of ways to restrict Russian influence over the west.”

—Observer New Review (UK) on The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia