This book exposes the history and the future of the Wagner Group, Russia’s notorious and secretive mercenary army, revealing details of their operations never documented before.Using extensive leaks, first-hand accounts, and the byzantine paper trail left in its wake, Jack Margolin traces the Wagner Group from its roots as a battlefield rumour to a private military enterprise tens of thousands-strong that eventually comes to threaten Putin himself. He follows individual commanders a...

**"A tale of violence and political intrigue that reads like a Tom Clancy novel written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky." —**The Wall Street Journal**"Riveting . . . It's a vital window onto the weird world of secretive, privatized modern warfare." —**Publishers Weekly (starred review)An eye-opening, terrifying history of this notorious and widely influential mercenary group.This book expose...