At the Frankfurt book fair last week, one author loomed large by her absence.
Masha Gessen was in Moscow while her agent Elyse Cheney was at the fair selling foreign rights to Gessen?s forthcoming book, ?The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin.?
Publishers Weekly reports that Gessen?s publisher, Riverhead, said the book, which is scheduled for release in March, contains ?explosive? details about Putin, the Russian prime minister. ?And that,? PW adds, ?could be a hazard for Gessen, especially in a country that is notoriously dangerous for journalists.?
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