An explosive exposÔe that lays out the Trump administration's ties to Moscow, and Russia's decades-in-the-making political game to upend American democracy. December 2016. Luke Harding, the Guardian reporter and former Moscow bureau chief, meets former MI6 officer Christopher Steele in a London pub to discuss President-elect Donald Trump's Russia connections. A month later, Steele's 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. Harding takes the reader through every bizarre and disquieting detail of the Trump-Russia story - involving 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.