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Mysterious Press
June 2023
On Sale: June 6, 2023
384 pages
ISBN: 1613164076
EAN: 9781613164075
Kindle: B0BJXKVDRS
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A Texas businessman travels to the furthest
reaches of post-Soviet Russia in search of the
country’s new wealth — and finds new dangers as
well. Based on true events.
After the demise of the Soviet Union, the newly-
established Russian government privatized its industry by
issuing vouchers to all of its citizens, allowing them the
chance to be shareholders in the country’s burgeoning
businesses. The slips are distributed among the population
and auctions are arranged where they can be exchanged for
actual shares. For the country’s rural populations
living in abject poverty, the vouchers appear to be little
more than pieces of paper, totally separated from the far-
off concept of potential future fortunes.
But for Texas businessman John Mills and his Czech
companion, Petr Kovac, the seemingly-valueless chits suggest
a lucrative potential, worth much more than what the current
owners are willing to sell them for. They travel to the
furthest, coldest reaches of the country to acquire vouchers
for the country’s national oil company, Gazneft,
roving from town to town with suitcases full of cash.
But they quickly learn that the plan has complications
— for example, the fact that the auctions at which
these vouchers are traded for actual shares have been
planned at the most remote, inaccessible locations possible
to deter outsiders from buying in. And when the Russian
mafia and the oligarchs in charge of Gazneft catch wind of
their successes, the stakes become suddenly more deadly.
A thrilling adventure inspired by true events, The
Siberia Job charts a course through one of the most
impactful periods in recent Russian history, whose
reverberations continue to be felt in the present day.
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