The Russians are coming

If you are bewildered by this hydra-headed controversy, this book offers a lucid refresher

Russian Roulette

The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump

Michael Isikoff and David Corn

Hachette

339 pages; Rs 699

The co-authors of Russian Roulette were aware that the book would be overtaken by events.  But even they would have had difficulty predicting the deluge of developments surrounding Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 US elections since their book was published. 
 

Watergate is nothing to this. “Golden showers,” disreputable political operators with links to dictators, shadowy oligarchs, impresarios, thugs, seedy lawyers, hackers with names such as Fancy Bear and Guccifer 2.0 and fishy meetings surge through Michael Isikoff and