| COLLUSION: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win Luke Harding New York: Vintage Books, November 2017 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-525-56251-1 | ||||
| ISBN 0-525-56251-6 | 354pp. | SC/BWI | $16.95 | |
| Page 20: | "At this point his career hit a bump. In 1999 a list of MI6 officers was leaked online. Steele was one of them." |
| It would be nice to know who leaked the list (but presumably even MI6 doesn't know.) |
| Page 21: | "The Brits had slightly better assets than us. We had nothing." |
| Missing commas: S/B "But, opened, it revealed". |
| Page 21: | "And then the two FSB assassins put a mini-nuclear poison in Litvinenko's teapot." |
| Terminology: S/B "a radioactive poison". |
| Page 65: | "...of a rendezvous between Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, and Russian operatives." |
| This instance of Cohen's name is not indexed. |
| Page 66: | "...the top four Republican and Democratic party leaders in the House and Senate, plus the chairman and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees..." |
| Typo: S/B "chairmen". |
| Page 69: | "Cohen, Trump's lawyer, sounded almost sorrowful." |
| This instance of Cohen's name is not indexed. |
| Page 173: | "They had grabbed what they wanted and exited—not that they were in." |
| I wouldn't be so coy with cyberspace entry and exit; access is access, be it physical or virtual. |
| Page 176: | "(Indeed, the FBI's New York field office hated Clinton with a 'white-hot passion,' I was told.)" |
| This could be expressed as "NYT FBI hates HRC with WHP." |
| Page 177: | "A delegation from the White House went to Ashcroft's hospital bed to persuade him to change his mind. Comey got there first. Ashcroft held firm. The White House was furious." |
| This should be fleshed out. Comey was acting A.G. at the time, and IIRC he made the decision to withhold approval. |
| Page 238: | "There were plenty of other things on offer: a beachside villa, for example, and a helicopter to take you there with an interior designed by Versace." |
| Word order: S/B "a beachside villa with an interior designed by Versace, for example, and a helicopter to take you there". |
| Page 250: | "Like most of Trump's denials—he was in Trump Tower at the time—it wasn't convincing." |
| This instance of Cohen's name is not indexed. |
| Page 252: | "While most residents in the Altona district were having breakfast, the activists were already creating carnage." |
| Word choice: S/B "havoc" or equivalent;"carnage" implies injuries or deaths. |
| Page 292: | "In 2003 Bayrock moved into offices in Trump Tower on the twenty-fourth floor, two floors below Trump's own premises." |
| I took this to mean Trump's residence was on floor 26, in which case page 295 contradicts it. But it could mean Trump's own offices. |
| Page 295: | "The FBI spent two years monitoring the activities inside Trincher's luxury apartment—number 63A. Its location? The fifty-first floor of Trump Tower. Trump Tower was now a significant crime scene. Trump lived just three floors above Trincher, in a lavish triplex penthouse." |
| So, my second thought is right: this is Trump's residence, the other his offices. |
| Page 307: | "A century earlier Donald's German grandfather, Friedrich Trump, had worked at the same address." |
| Not Friedrich "Drumpf"?. |
| Page 313: | "The method was simple—and effective. In Moscow, a Russian client bought blue chip stocks from Deutsche Bank Moscow in companies like Gazprom or Sberbank. The payment was in rubles. The size of a typical order was $2 million to $3 million. Shortly afterward, a non-Russian 'customer' sold exactly the same number of securities to Deutsche Bank in London, paying in dollars." |
| Word order: S/B "being paid in dollars". |
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