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Red Notice

A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

by Bill Browder
Adam Grupper
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November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes paid to the state by one of the world's most successful hedge funds. Magnitsky's brutal killing has remained uninvestigated and unpunished to this day. His farcical posthumous show-trial brought Putin's regime to a new low in the eyes of the international community. Red Notice is a searing exposE of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky's imprisonment and murder, slicing deep into the shadowy heart of the Kremlin to uncover its sordid truths. Bill Browder - the hedge fund manager who employed Magnitsky - takes us on his explosive journey from the heady world of finance in New York and London in the 1990s, through his battles with ruthless oligarchs in the turbulent landscape of post-Soviet Union Moscow, to his expulsion from Russia on Putin's orders. Browder's graphic portrait of the Russian government as a criminal enterprise wielding all the power of a sovereign state illuminates his personal transformation from financier to human rights activist, campaigning for justice for his late lawyer and friend. With fraud, bribery, corruption and torture exposed at every turn,Red Notice is a shocking but true political roller-coaster that plays out in the highest echelons of Western power.

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    February 3, 2015

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      • ISBN: 9781490649665
      • File size: 406917 KB
      • Duration: 14:07:44

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Adam Grupper delivers a spirited and expressive narration of Browder's fascinating memoir, which focuses on his work as a hedge-fund investor in Eastern Europe and Russia. The author begins by describing his family's history as Jewish Communists from Russia. A rebel at heart, Browder became a capitalist. The heart of the story, which some have called a thriller, concerns the murder of Browder's Russian tax attorney by the authorities and Browder's crusade for justice amid the "corruptocracy" that is the new Russia. Grupper is able to give credible accents to a wide range of characters--English, Americans, Poles, and Russians--and still keep his narrative voice consistent, disciplined, and suitably expressive. His reading of transliterated Russian is not up to the same level but won't distract most listeners. M.T.F. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      September 1, 2015

      When Browder, a bright young businessman, looked around for a place to make his fortune, he settled on Eastern Europe. With a shrewd knack for finding deals, he eventually became one of the biggest foreign investors in Russia. Unfortunately, the happy times didn't last. Success earned Browder the unwelcome attention of some powerful and unscrupulous people: the Russian oligarchs. This book is a stark warning to all who search for riches in Russia, offering a tour through the business world's equivalent of the heart of darkness. The voice work by Adam Grupper is strong and conveys all the moments of incredulity in the face of lies and injustice. VERDICT With high levels of corruption, blackmail, espionage, and murder, this nonfiction political thriller is sure to keep listeners engaged. It is also recommended for those with an interest in business biographies and world politics. ["Rich characterizations and well-explained financial intrigue make this a compelling read": LJ 2/1/15 review of the S. & S. hc.]--Denis Frias, Mississauga Lib. Syst., Ont.

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from November 10, 2014
      In Russia the gangsters are running the government, according to this fascinating firsthand story of state criminality and persecution. Browder, founder of the hedge fund Hermitage Capital Management (and grandson of American Communist Party leader Earl Browder), made his fortune investing in underpriced, privatized ex-Soviet companies and prodding their corrupt managers to divulge the truth about their assets. The enmity of Russian oligarchs—and, eventually, Vladimir Putin—got him expelled from the country, whereupon his companies were seized by a group of police officials and used to steal $230 million from the Russian Treasury. When Browder’s Moscow lawyer Sergei Magnitsky unmasked the officials behind the conspiracy, Magnitsky was arrested, denied medical attention, and finally murdered in prison. Browder’s narrative lays out in vivid detail the often murky mechanisms of Russia’s kleptocratic economy, culminating in an engrossing account of what would surely be the heist of the century were it not so representative of business as usual. It’s also a chilling, sinister portrait of a society in which the rule of law has been destroyed by those sworn to enforce it. The result is an alternately harrowing and inspiring saga of appalling crime and undeserved punishment in the Wild East. Photos. Agent: Patrick Walsh, Conville and Walsh Literary Agency (U.K.).

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