RUSSIAN ROULETTE

ISIKOFF, MICHAEL Y OTRO

it weaves together tales of international intrigue, cyber espionage, and superpower rivalry. after us-russia relations soured, as vladimir putin moved to reassert russian strength on the global stage, moscow trained its best hackers on us political targets and exploited julian assange and wikileaks to disseminate information that could affect the 2016 election. the russians were wildly successful and the great break-in of 2016 was no third rate burglary. it was far more sophisticated and sinister -- a brazen act of political espionage designed to interfere with american democracy, and at the end of the day, trump, the candidate with business ties to russia, won. and millions of americans were left wondering, what the hell happened?