Collusion

Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win

By: Luke Harding

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive exposé that lays out the story behind the Steele Dossier, including Russia’s decades-in-the-making political game to upend American democracy and the Trump administration’s ties to Moscow.

“Harding…presents a powerful case for Russian interference, and Trump campaign collusion, by collecting years of reporting on Trump’s connections to Russia and putting it all together in a coherent narrative.” —The Nation

December 2016. Luke Harding, the Guardian reporter and former Moscow bureau chief, quietly meets former MI6 officer Christopher Steele in a London pub to discuss President-elect Donald Trump’s Russia connections. A month later, Steele’s now-famous dossier sparks what may be the biggest scandal of the modern era. The names of the Americans involved are well-known—Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, George Papadopoulos, Carter Page—but here Harding also shines a light on powerful Russian figures like Aras Agalarov, Natalia Veselnitskaya, and Sergey Kislyak, whose motivations and instructions may have been coming from the highest echelons of the Kremlin.

Drawing on new material and his expert understanding of Moscow and its players, Harding takes the reader through every bizarre and disquieting detail of the “Trump-Russia” story—an event so huge it involves international espionage, off-shore banks, sketchy real estate deals, the Miss Universe pageant, mobsters, money laundering, poisoned dissidents, computer hacking, and the most shocking election in American history.

Critic reviews

“If you thought Michael Wolff’s book was dynamite, just wait till you read Luke Harding’s Collusion. Utterly damning. Devastating. Meticulously, scrupulously researched, leaves no room for doubt…. [A] detailed exposé of [the] dark world of spies, bribes, mega money-laundering, Russian mafia and Trump cronies. Like a non-fiction John Le Carré. Mesmerising.” —Richard Dawkins

“[Collusion] should be read by every conservative in this country.” —Glenn Beck

“Essential…I wish everyone who is skeptical that Russia has leverage over Trump would read it…. Harding, the former Moscow bureau chief of The Guardian, has been reporting on shady characters like Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who was indicted last month, long before Trump announced his candidacy…. There’s no longer any serious question that there was cooperation between Trump’s campaign and Russia, but the extent of the cooperation, and the precise nature of it, remains opaque…. [Collusion] is invaluable in collating the overwhelming evidence of a web of relationships between the Kremlin, Trump and members of Trump’s circle.” —Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times

“Harding…presents a powerful case for Russian interference, and Trump campaign collusion, by collecting years of reporting on Trump’s connections to Russia and putting it all together in a coherent narrative. It’s the sheer breadth of connections, many of them dating back 20 years or more, between Trump and his associates and Russians with close ties to the Kremlin that put the lie to Trump’s repeated claims that he has no ties to Russia.” —The Nation

“A superb piece of work, wonderfully done and essential reading for anyone who cares for his country. Amazing research and brilliantly collated.” —John le Carré

“Damning indeed…. Harding is at his best connecting dots that may not always be obvious…. If readers emerge from this fast-paced narrative convinced that the Trump White House is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Russian oligarchs, then there’s good reason for it.” —Kirkus Reviews

excellent perspective

Impressive narrative of what we know so far about "Stupid Watergate". Harding does an amazing job of putting all of the details together in a highly readable and engrossing narrative. The narrator does an excellent job with his tone and pacing.

Very Timely

This book made me feel better about the state of the world. Proves collusion in my mind.

Absolutely astonishing

Every person needs to read this. Unequivocally. This is absolutely astonishing. Very well sourced and written as well.

#TrumpRussia

If this much is out there...Robert Mueller will not fail us and help us to win our democracy back.
I see the daily slide into authoritarianism and the true horrible state our country is in and we will be dealing with his regulation changes and filling of our judiciary with incompetent judges for a generation.

This book stays relevant

Got this book as soon as it came out. It is informative and is a book I go back to time and time again as the pieces of the puzzle come together. Not a one time read. I also really love the narration, Narrator has a great voice for this material.