Not to mention the dangers Browder brought upon himself and his family coming up against an angered Putin. His family must have suffered such frustration at his hyper focus on anything but them. I’d be lying if I didn’t say there were times I thought Browder was a narcissistic workaholic. The corruption in Russia, as detailed by Browder, is unfathomable. It was hard, at times, to believe that this was a true story being told by the protagonist himself. His early experiences as a young financier right through to his ongoing mission as a human rights activist were gripping. While some of the more business heavy content went over my head, I found myself very wrapped up in Browder’s voice and personal account of this crazy situation.

The reason this book worked for me is because Browder’s manner of writing was straightforward.

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… Review 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. Browder’s attorney Sergei Magnitsky investigated the incident and uncovered a sprawling criminal enterprise. 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. 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. It continued in Moscow, where Browder made his fortune heading the largest investment fund in Russia after the Soviet Union’s collapse.

Red Notice by Bill Browder Synopsis (an excerpt from Goodreads)Ī 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.īill 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. Even when the author delved too deeply into financial, legal and illegal nitty gritty, it was still a page turner. Yet Red Notice by Bill Browder turned out to be a very interesting story. I never would have imagined liking a Russian finance and murder thriller. My latest book club read took me by surprise, in a good way. Red Notice by Bill Browder book club meeting at The Wine Lab

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