MOSCOW, July 1987. Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump visits Soviet Russia for the first time at the invitation of the government.LONDON, December 2016. Luke Harding meets former MI6 officer Christopher Steele to discuss the president-elect`s connections with Russia. Harding follows two leads; money & sex.WASHINGTON, January 2017. Steele`s explosive dossier alleges that the Kremlin has been `cultivating, supporting, & assisting` Trump for years & that they have compromising information about him. Trump responds on twitter, `FAKE NEWS.` In Collusion, award-winning journalist Luke Harding reveals the true nature of Trump`s decades-long relationship with Russia & presents the gripping inside story of the dossier. It features exclusive new material & draws on sources from the intelligence community. Harding tells an astonishing story of offshore money, sketchy real-estate deals, a Miss Universe Pageant, mobsters, money laundering, hacking & Kremlin espionage. He shines a light on powerful Russian players like Aras Agalarov, Natalia Veselnitskaya & Sergey Kislyak, whose motivations & instructions may have come from Vladimir Putin himself. The special prosecutor, Robert Mueller, has already indicted several of the American protagonists, including Trump`s campaign manager, Paul Manafort. More charges are likely as the crisis engulfs Trump`s administration. This book gets to the heart of the biggest political scandal of the modern era. Russia is reshaping the world order to its advantage; this is something that should trouble us all.