A review by alba89
Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding

3.0

I should have read this earlier. At this point, we know a lot more about what happened between the Trump campaign and various foreign actors, as well as Trump's (probably corrupt) business practices. If you haven't followed the news on the Trump/Russia scandal, you might find this edifying. It draws on the author's deep knowledge of Russia, Putin and his repressive regime. He was The Guardian's Russia correspondent for several years and wrote a book on the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in the UK a few years ago. The section on the Steele dossier is very good and I did learn new things about Russian intelligence services and oligarchs. But I didn't feel that I learned that much about "collusion." Basically you get additional color and context, but not a lot of new substance. At some points, I wondered if the author rushed out this book to take advantage of his Russian expertise. It feels a bit thrown together. I got a little bored towards the end but I did manage to finish.