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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Bill Browder
4.26 AVERAGE
1.01k reviews for:
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Bill Browder
4.26 AVERAGE
An amazing book.
It thrillingly follows Browder’s investing adventures in Russia and his battle with barbaric oligarchs.
It reveals the hypocrisy and lawlessness in Russia.
And it describes the tragic ordeal of Sergei Magnitsky.
His success in punishing human rights’ abusers sends the message that the Russian elite is not invincible.
Thank you Browder for this eye opening, sobering account of what Russia is today.
It thrillingly follows Browder’s investing adventures in Russia and his battle with barbaric oligarchs.
It reveals the hypocrisy and lawlessness in Russia.
And it describes the tragic ordeal of Sergei Magnitsky.
His success in punishing human rights’ abusers sends the message that the Russian elite is not invincible.
Thank you Browder for this eye opening, sobering account of what Russia is today.
Damm that's good. Probably the best thing I will read this year. Everything is interesting in it from how the society's redistributed wealth when it feel to putins rise to post. Repercussions of this story are legally still in the headlines today.
I don’t wanna hear anyone talk endlessly about high finance and investment bankers being great?
*3.5 stars.
This is a complicated book to review.
For a lot of the book I spent my time thinking about how much I didn’t really like Bill Browder. Which is awkward as it’s his memoir! I enjoyed reading about how he started his career and how he ended up in Russia, but to me it seemed that he was happy to deal with Russian oligarchs until they screwed his business over. Then suddenly he was opposed to them?
This is a complicated book to review.
For a lot of the book I spent my time thinking about how much I didn’t really like Bill Browder. Which is awkward as it’s his memoir! I enjoyed reading about how he started his career and how he ended up in Russia, but to me it seemed that he was happy to deal with Russian oligarchs until they screwed his business over. Then suddenly he was opposed to them?
Wow! What a powerful story. I never would have read this had my husband’s best friend not recommended it to me for my “12 books by 12 friends” challenge for 2022. I am SO glad he did and that I gave it a chance (non-fiction and true crime are not my favorites). This was an amazingly insane story about this man and his fight for justice. It would be a dishonor to everyone involved to rate this anything less than 5 stars.
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emotional
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informative
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Second time reading this - still as good and heartbreaking and inspiring
Probably like 3.5 stars. I thought it was a really fascinating story and I think he is a good storyteller. The last quarter of the book was intense!. However, the middle lulled for me a bit and the author kind of bugged me. I felt like he came across as arrogant, maybe?
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Easy 5 stars. I did 90% of this via audiobook and it was amazing. Think CEO book meets Russian spy novel. I cried twice and really loved the twists and turns and passion behind this book. Highly recommend
was a really engaging and interesting read, but I couldn't help but notice that all the women were described based on their level of attractiveness. the more benevolent the woman the more attractive she was deemed, the more sinister, the more ugly she was portrayed. men were not held to the same judgements.