The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy by Ireland, Josh
The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy by Ireland, Josh

The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy

A LitHub and Parade Most Anticipated Book of the Year For fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik...
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Author: Josh Ireland
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The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy by Ireland, Josh

The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy

$926.00
The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy by Ireland, Josh

The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy

$926.00
Author: Josh Ireland
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A LitHub and Parade Most Anticipated Book of the Year

For fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson, the gripping story of the assassination of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the deadly game of cat and mouse that preceded it

On August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky invited a man he knew only as Jacques Mornard into his study. Mornard waited for Trotsky to sit, then smashed an ice pick he had hidden in his raincoat into Trotsky's skull.

For over a decade, Trotsky's greatest enemy, Joseph Stalin, had been trying to arrange his murder. Stalin's agents had hunted him across Europe and into a lonely, bitter exile in Mexico. He had liquidated Trotsky's family and friends, and yet Trotsky had always escaped his clutches. The man who changed this all was Ramón Mercader, a minor Spanish aristocrat and Soviet agent who had posed as Mornard, a dissolute Belgian playboy, and infiltrated Trotsky's inner circle.

In The Death of Trotsky, Josh Ireland traces the separate paths walked by each of these protagonists as they steadily draw closer and closer to that fateful encounter on August 20. Blending intimate historical detail and thrilling historical narrative, swinging from Moscow to Paris to Mexico, and taking in a cast of morally conflicted Russian spies, fanatical Mexican painters, and innocent American idealists, The Death of Trotsky delves into the lives of two fascinating, complex men locked in a life-or-death struggle that would bend the course of history.

Author: Josh Ireland
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 02/24/2026
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.56w x 1.29d
ISBN: 9780593187104


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2025
Library Journal 12/01/2025 pg. 81

About the Author
Josh Ireland is a writer and editor. He lives in London and is the author of The Traitors (2017), an Observer book of the year, and Churchill & Son (2021) a Daily Telegraph book of the year. He has also ghosted a number of top-five Sunday Times bestsellers and written for the Daily Telegraph, Prospect, Spectator and the Times Literary Supplement.

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