根據八年間在俄羅斯、美國、歐洲的近兩百場採訪，以及豐富資料，曾為BBC、經濟學人、泰晤士報擔任駐莫斯科、北京、華盛頓特派員的菲利浦·修特，結合俄羅斯過去60年的動盪歷史，全面解讀普丁其人。
 
　　他是全世界最危險的男人，不但手握足以摧毀歐美的核武，更曾對此發出言語恐嚇；他入侵鄰國、介入西方國家的選舉、下令在國內外執行多次暗殺行動；他統治下的國度獨裁且極度腐敗──然而，這只是故事的一部份。
 
　　菲利浦·修特打破強人的強硬形象，以犀利、客觀的文字，寫出故事的全貌，記述普丁的成長過程，以及他登上獨裁者寶座之路。普丁動搖了全球的和平與穩定，使俄國人民陷入經濟困局，為何仍有不少人支持他？本書是任何想從多種角度了解普丁的讀者，不容錯過的作品。(文/博客來編譯)
＂Vladimir Putin is the world’s most dangerous man. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his neighbors, most recently Ukraine, meddles in western elections, and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia. His regime is autocratic and deeply corrupt. But that is only half the story. Unflinching, hard-hitting, and objective, Philip Short’s biography gives us the whole tale, up to the present day. To the fullest extent anyone has yet been able, Short cracks open the strongman’s thick carapace to reveal the man underneath those bare-chested horseback rides＂--
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