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

Reads like a thriller! Could not stop listening. Extraordinarily prescient. One can draw a line from Putin's rage and humiliation at the passage of the Magnitsky Act to Russia's war on liberal democracies the world over -- Trump's rise as the prime exemplar. Bill Browder experiences the sordid underbelly of the New Russia as few have. While he ventures to Russia for raw capitalistic pursuits, his push for basic corporate governance soon makes him the enemy of Putin cronies rising to power around the same time. With his own life in danger -- the events described here mostly occur before Putin begins killing his detractors abroad such as Litvinenko and Skripal -- Browder carries forward the memory of Sergey Magnitsky, the tragic heart of the story whose determination and courage are something few would exhibit in similar circumstances.

I was listening to a forty-five expose about his books on Bloomberg postcast and I am in process of reading it now. As a person born and raised for half of a life in Eastern Europe I was struck by Mr Browder nativity. Nothing in those countries was allowed to happen without the approval of Secret Police or the mafia like organizations that came after it. Surprised that assests were undervalued for sham privatisations of their economy and can get privatizations coupons at a steep discount at a black market? Dear Mr Browder if you didn’t realized it yet, this was the plan! This is how you, Solomon Brothers and western money have created the oligarchs. They bought the Russian undervalued economy for kopecs and then borrowed again and again against those then overvalued assets with again western money to get richer. You and others were allowed to do business in Russia and it wasn't only because your economical prowess, duh I will return with more comments once I get through the book

Riveting...as well as educational. Browder exposes the unbelievable state of affairs in Russia today, and how we got there.