Red Notice is a story about how an accidental activist. Bill Browder started out his adult life as the Wall Street maverick whose instincts led him to Russia just after the breakup of the Soviet Union, where he made his fortune. Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returned with another gripping thriller, Freezing Order, chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin’s number one enemy by exposing Putin’s campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way.
Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005. Since 2009, when his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was murdered in prison after uncovering a $230 million fraud committed by Russian government officials, Browder has been leading a campaign to expose Russia’s endemic corruption and human rights abuses. Before founding Hermitage, Browder was vice president at Salomon Brothers. He holds a BA in economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Stanford Business School.
Shocking reading about the criminal takeover of the Russian state. Friends and colleagues who I met in my International Democrat Union days have been exiled, imprisoned, and murdered. A consolation was that an official I had worked with was actually one of the honest ones; a rarity. Read and be warned.
Once I started this, I couldn't stop reading. Then I'd tell my husband, 'Oh my goodness, you've got to read this.'I'm not a biography fan but... Biography of Bill Browder & his fight with Putin. Read both now. Scary real life stuff.
Quite a story. An easy read, and there was an awful lot going on here so I have to commend the author and the editor for making everything understandable. I have seen Bill Browder on CNN and he is very persuasive. I do wonder how he managed to avoid getting poisoned or falling out of a window.
Some parts dragged but this hooked me in from the very beginning. There were moments I almost cried. It's a book that stays with you long after finishing it.