內容簡介

“The story Unger weaves
with those earlier accounts and his original reporting is fresh,
illuminating and more alarming than the intelligence channel described
in the Steele dossier.”—The Washington Post

House of Trump, House of Putin
offers the first comprehensive investigation into the decades-long
relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Mafia
that ultimately helped win Trump the White House.

It is a
chilling story that begins in the 1970s, when Trump made his first
splash in the booming, money-drenched world of New York real estate, and
ends with Trump’s inauguration as president of the United States. That
moment was the culmination of Vladimir Putin’s long mission to undermine
Western democracy, a mission that he and his hand-selected group of
oligarchs and Mafia kingpins had ensnared Trump in, starting more than
twenty years ago with the massive bailout of a string of sensational
Trump hotel and casino failures in Atlantic City. This book confirms the
most incredible American paranoias about Russian malevolence.

To
most, it will be a hair-raising revelation that the Cold War did not
end in 1991—that it merely evolved, with Trump’s apartments offering the
perfect vehicle for billions of dollars to leave the collapsing Soviet
Union. In House of Trump, House of Putin, Craig Unger
methodically traces the deep-rooted alliance between the highest
echelons of American political operatives and the biggest players in the
frightening underworld of the Russian Mafia. He traces Donald Trump’s
sordid ascent from foundering real estate tycoon to leader of the free
world. He traces Russia’s phoenixlike rise from the ashes of the
post–Cold War Soviet Union as well as its ceaseless covert efforts to
retaliate against the West and reclaim its status as a global
superpower.

Without Trump, Russia would have lacked a key
component in its attempts to return to imperial greatness. Without
Russia, Trump would not be president. This essential book is crucial to
understanding the real powers at play in the shadows of today’s world.
The appearance of key figures in this book—Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen,
and Felix Sater to name a few—will ring with haunting significance as
Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s alleged collusion with
Russia closes in on the truth.