About the Author

CHRIS HUTCHINS became fascinated by all-things-Russian when he co-wrote the definitive biography of the Russian oligarch who bought Chelsea Football Club – ABRAMOVICH: The billionaire from nowhere. An investigative journalist, Hutchins has been a columnist on the Daily Express, Today & the Sunday Mirror. He began writing biographies in 1992 starting with Fergie Confidential after uncovering the Duchess or York’s affair with American oil billionaire’s son, Steve Wyatt.