'This masterly investigation spanning 30 years into the assassination of a cold war dissident
Georgi Markov in London in 1978 exposes an assassin worthy of James Bond' - Observer Book of
the Week 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
Markov's 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 a quarter of a century
bringing him face to face with eccentric conspiracy theorists a washed-up former dictator
ageing Danish spooks - and ultimately with Agent Piccadilly himself. Drawing on an
incredible cache of original documents interviews and archive material The Umbrella Murder
provides jaw-dropping answers to questions that have persisted for nearly five decades: who
killed Georgi Markov? And who has been protecting the assassin ever since?
