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

4.26 AVERAGE

davidjgibson's review against another edition

4.0
Excellent, disturbing, as exciting as any spy story.
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mac_daydreams's review

4.5
challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

mikieallan's review against another edition

5.0
Reminds me of 1MDB. Reads like a thriller novel, but is all true. So interesting.
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elanalewis's review against another edition

3.0
An interesting recount of a man’s experience with cold, hard Russian wealth.

Kind of dry and lacking in any real complex range of emotion in the descriptive language.
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annuloeb's review against another edition

5.0
It is both fascinating and frightening that this book reads like a criminal horror thriller and yet it's non fiction. A very important story where I learned a lot about recent Russian history and saw many links between previously seemingly unconnected political events. Best read of the year thus far and strongly recommended!

2017 current events relevance note: Even more gripping is the fact that the events and people in this book are now also linked to revelations unfolding in the US white house. In fact, at least part of the stolen tax money seems to have been laundered through Trump towers. And the lawyer who represented the companies stolen from Hermitage was the same one who met with Trump Jr. Scary.

tovafrye's review against another edition

4.0
An important read with Putin’s war going on. The invasion of Ukraine.

mkg_sd's review

4.0
That was a very intense read, but the material is meaningful and gives insight into the current political atmosphere here at home, across the globe, and part of the cause. I'll probably have to re-read this at a later date, when things are better again.

foster735's review against another edition

4.0
This is not a new book and has been sitting in my to-read stack for way too long. So glad I finally picked it up. This is the back story to the Magnitsky Act (which you might remember from that fateful Trump Tower meeting to get opposition dirt). You know how this book ends but it is a surprisingly suspenseful read. It reads like a spy novel, but sadly it is all too true.

carrieclippinger's review against another edition

Easy, quick read. Mebbe a scootch self aggrandizing.

jenlizkins's review against another edition

3.5
challenging dark tense medium-paced