Hundreds of journalists have been killed during Putin’s reign. Americans are lucky that their government still holds Trump back from killing his critics - something that Putin’s government does not do.

Remember that Trump is a big fan of Putin. The details do justice to the old claim that Russia is “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” They also show that Russian is run by thugs who will lie, torture and murder anyone standing in the way of their pillaging of businesses, government assets, and pretty much anyone they feel like exploiting. The second half tells a gripping, surreal and tragic story of how Browder and his team were punished for crossing lines laid down by Vladimir Putin, his cronies, and the corrupt officials in his government. Those early stories form the first half of the book. In other cases, they exposed corruption and catalyzed reforms that improved company governance. In many cases, he and his team got rich by buying shares in companies that were not as badly managed as others assumed. The author is Bill Browder, an American-born, British-based investment banker who got rich investing in the chaos of 1990s Eastern Europe and Russia. My review is short because the 2015 book reads more like a fast-paced thriller than the non-fiction catastrophe it documents. it is a powerful story and Browder tells it skilfully.This is a very short review for a very good book. but it's all true, and it's a story that needs to be told.' Lee Child 'A shocking true-life thriller.' Tom Stoppard 'A riveting account. _ Reads like a classic thriller, with an everyman hero alone and in danger in a hostile foreign city.

With fraud, bribery, corruption and torture exposed at every turn, Red Notice is a shocking political roller-coaster. This is his explosive journey from the heady world of finance in New York and London in the 1990s, through battles with ruthless oligarchs in turbulent post-Soviet Union Moscow, to the shadowy heart of the Kremlin. Bill Browder is still campaigning for justice for his late lawyer and friend. Red Notice is a searing expose of the whitewash of this imprisonment and murder. His crime? Testifying against Russian officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight police officers in a freezing cell in a Moscow prison. A true-life thriller by one of Putin's Most Wanted. A Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. electrifying.' The Times I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day.

'An unburdening, a witness statement and a thriller all at the same time. A shocking true-life thriller about corruption, dirty politics and murder in Russia by one of Putin's Most Wanted.

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