"Extraordinary."-CHRIS MILLER, author of Chip War"Incredible."****-ANNIE JACOBSEN, author of Nuclear War, via XFrom John Lechner, "an amazingly bold reporter" (Adam Hochschild), the shocking inside story of how the Wagner Group made private military companies inextricable from Russia's anti-Western foreign strategy.In 2014, a well-trained, mysterious band of mercenaries arrived in Ukraine, part of ...

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Bloomsbury presents Death Is Our Business by John Lechner, read by Christopher Ragland."Extraordinary. . . Essential reading for understanding Russia and modern warfare."—CHRIS MILLER, New York Times bestselling author of Chip War and Putinomics“John Lechner is an amazingly bold reporter who has been to the key places where the Wagner Group fought, interviewing members, veterans, and victims to deliver a shrewd, g...