Quote:🌞 "Extraordinary. . . Essential reading for understanding Russia and modern warfare."-CHRIS MILLER, New York Times bestselling author of Chip War and Putinomics
🌞 "John Lechner is an amazingly bold reporter who has been to the key places where the Wagner Group fought, interviewing members, veterans, and victims to deliver a shrewd, granular sense of how Russian mercenary forces operate."-🌞 ADAM HOCHSCHILD, 🌞 bestselling author of King Leopold's Ghost
🌞 The shocking inside story of how the Wagner Group made private military companies inextricable from Russia's anti-Western foreign strategy.

In 2014, a well-trained, mysterious band of mercenaries arrived in Ukraine, part of Russia's first attempt to claim the country as its own. Upon ceasefire, the "Wagner Group" faded back into shadow, only to reemerge in the Middle East, where they'd go toe-to-toe with the U.S., and in Africa, where...