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Simon & Schuster
February 2014
On Sale: February 3, 2014
ISBN: 147675571X
EAN: 9781476755717
Kindle: B00LD1ORX6
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True Crime
A real-life political thriller about an American financier
in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled
young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the
Kremlin’s corruption. Bill Browder’s journey started on the South Side of Chicago
and moved through Stanford Business School to the
dog-eat-dog world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s. It
continued in Moscow, where Browder made his fortune heading
the largest investment fund in Russia after the Soviet
Union’s collapse. But when he exposed the corrupt oligarchs
who were robbing the companies in which he was investing,
Vladimir Putin turned on him and, in 2005, had him expelled
from Russia. In 2007, a group of law enforcement officers raided
Browder’s offices in Moscow and stole $230 million of taxes
that his fund’s companies had paid to the Russian
government. Browder’s attorney Sergei Magnitsky investigated
the incident and uncovered a sprawling criminal enterprise.
A month after Sergei testified against the officials
involved, he was arrested and thrown into pre-trial
detention, where he was tortured for a year. On November 16,
2009, he was led to an isolation chamber, handcuffed to a
bedrail, and beaten to death by eight guards in full riot gear. Browder glimpsed the heart of darkness, and it transformed
his life: he embarked on an unrelenting quest for justice in
Sergei’s name, exposing the towering cover-up that leads
right up to Putin. A financial caper, a crime thriller, and
a political crusade, Red Notice is the story of one man
taking on overpowering odds to change the world.
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