Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin ~ SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED TO TITLE PAGE FIRST/FIRST

First edition. Hard cover. First Second, New York (2022) Brown, Brian Box New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. SIGNED DATED LOCATED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING Hardcover: new. Dust jacket: new. Signed, dated, and located by the author to the title page Wash DC 11/8/22. First edition, first printing, full number line. Dust jacket is wrapped in protective archival grade mylar. Photos available upon request.

This riveting graphic novel biography chronicles Vladimir Putin's rise from a mid-level KGB officer to the autocratic leader of Russia and reveals the truth behind the strongman persona he has spent his career cultivating.

In the West's collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe and in Ukraine. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KGB officer become one of the most powerful leaders in Russian history? And how much of Putin's tough-guy persona is a calculated performance?

In Accidental Czar, Andrew S. Weiss, a former White House Russia expert, and Brian "Box" Brown show how Putin has successfully cast himself as a cunning, larger-than-life political mastermind―and how the rest of the world has played into the Kremlin's hands by treating him as one. They shatter all of these myths and expose the man behind the façade.