El mago del Kremlin

The great novel of contemporary Russia. An addictive journey into the heart of power.They call him "the magician of the Kremlin". The enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a reality show producer before becoming Putin's gray eminence, aka the Tsar. After resigning as political advisor, rumors and legends multiply. Until one night he decides to entrust his story to the narrator of this book. A story that takes us into the heart of Russian power, where sycophants and oligarchs coexist in open war, and where Vadim, who has become the main spin doctor of the regime, transforms an entire country into a political theater, in which only the reality of fulfilling the Tsar's wishes exists.But Vadim is not as ambitious a man as those around him: drawn into the secretive workings and increasingly dark mysteries of the regime he helps build, he will do anything to get out.From the war in Chechnya to the Ukrainian crisis to the Sochi Olympics, The Wizard of the Kremlin is a brilliant novel that lays bare the fabric of the exercise of power at the heart of the Kremlin.