About the Book: The Umbrella Murder: The Hunt for the Cold Wars Most Notorious
Killer
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London, September 1978: exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered in
broad daylight on Waterloo Bridge with what appears to be a poison-tipped
umbrella. It would become the most infamous unsolved killing of the Cold War.
Many years later, young journalist Ulrik Skotte is approached with explosive
new information about a man alleged to be responsible for Markovs death a spy
code-named Piccadilly who worked for the Bulgarian secret service. This meeting
launched Skotte into a hunt for the killer lasting more than