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

The Umbrella Murder : The Hunt for the Cold War's Most Notorious KillerAuthor: Skotte, Ulrik Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000 Published on 11 July 2024 by Ebury Publishing (W H Allen) in the United Kingdom. Hardback 336 pages 245 x 160 x 30 562g 'This masterly investigation 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

Author: Skotte, Ulrik

Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000

Published on 11 July 2024 by Ebury Publishing (W H Allen) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 336 pages
245 x 160 x 30 | 562g

'This masterly investigation ... 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?