This book is largely well-written, and would be excellent! The problem is that it is, like most books on the topic found on Audible, deeply biased against Putin and Russia. Anyone who has any knowledge on the subject knows that Putin is no saint, and that he has engaged in political practices which cannot be condoned. Meyers always leaves out the key facts that paint a complete picture, and paints Putin like a cartoonish villian, instead of the complex person he is. His bias omits the (now universally admitted) facts about the Maidan revolution, such as the false flag operation of the snipers in the square. The reader is okay, and the early sections of the book are not so bad. I must give a low rating though: the author should know better than to give such a false picture.