I’m excited with the pending publication of our agency client Amy Knight’s new book, The Kremlin’s Noose: Putin’s Bitter Feud with the Oligarch Who Made Him Ruler of Russia, as we’ve seen the first full review of the book. In Foreign Affairs, critic Maria Lipman wrote, “Knight tells the riveting story of the Russian tycoon and political operator Boris Berezovsky and his role in the rise of Vladimir Putin to the presidency in 2000.”

And in Theater Mania, in a review of the play “Patriots,” currently at the Barrymore Theater on Broadway, critic Ian Stewart writes, “In a book, like Amy Knight’s excellent forthcoming history, The Kremlin’s Noose [the story is], a thriller.”

Along with the print edition of The Kremlin’s Noose being published in the US on May 15, we’ve also licensed an audiobook edition, due out in May; in addition, print editions of the book have also been licensed to publishers in Britain (due out in June 2024) and Brazil (in 2025).

Amy Knight has been called “the West’s foremost scholar” of the KGB by The New York Times. She is also the author of How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt of Soviet Spies (Carroll & Graf, 2006, for which I was the editor back in the day), and Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder (St Martin’s Press, 2017), the first book for which I was her agent. Orders to Kill is now available in paperback.