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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
Russia books are trending and I have put several on my "to read" pile. I doubt that any of them will surpass this one!! It is FANTASTIC. It read like a real life "Jack Reacher" story. Anyone that likes a thriller/suspense novel pick this up. You will not be disappointed. I highly recommend the audiobook!!
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Immeasurably good. Bill Browder is not a professional writer but Red Notice is practically perfect in almost every way.
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Holy cow!! This book was so good! My brain was exploding through every page!
It fascinated me because it really painted a picture of what happens behind the scenes today in our political and cultural climate. This book is a really life political thriller that takes place in Russia!
This is a true story that happened to the author and I was very invested in what happened to him.
The story is about an American financier that thinks he’s going to make money in Russia in the early 1990s.
He ends up leading the largest investment fund in in Russia after the Soviet Union collapse. Russian oligarchs are corrupt, that’s no secret. Browder decided that he’s going to be the good guy and expose them for robbing from his investors. Which in return he unearthed a huge criminal enterprise. Needless to say he was kicked out of Russia and his whole life and family is still In Russia. There was a lot of awful things that happened after that and seeing what happens really twisted my soul in knots that these ppl could do the awful things that they do in real life! I WANTED JUSTICE!
Browder is an incredible person and he has been through crazy things that I couldn’t even fathom.
Read this book. That is all.
It fascinated me because it really painted a picture of what happens behind the scenes today in our political and cultural climate. This book is a really life political thriller that takes place in Russia!
This is a true story that happened to the author and I was very invested in what happened to him.
The story is about an American financier that thinks he’s going to make money in Russia in the early 1990s.
He ends up leading the largest investment fund in in Russia after the Soviet Union collapse. Russian oligarchs are corrupt, that’s no secret. Browder decided that he’s going to be the good guy and expose them for robbing from his investors. Which in return he unearthed a huge criminal enterprise. Needless to say he was kicked out of Russia and his whole life and family is still In Russia. There was a lot of awful things that happened after that and seeing what happens really twisted my soul in knots that these ppl could do the awful things that they do in real life! I WANTED JUSTICE!
Browder is an incredible person and he has been through crazy things that I couldn’t even fathom.
Read this book. That is all.
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Well, it's no literary masterpiece, but it's a plain-told, authentic and not very political account. Bill Browder (always so affable-but-firm in interviews) was certainly There at the Time, in the cash-grab of the 90s in Eastern Europe. (I was there too but slogging it out in unheated schools for a monthly salary that wouldn't have paid for his dinner even then.) He starts off as an arrogant and rapacious hedge-fund manager and (if he's to be believed) has become something else entirely, a committed and courageous campaigner for justice, and he simply shows that, rather than belabouring it with philosophy. Of course, he made his money first, but we know that doesn't normally satisfy the cash-grabbers of the world. We might ask whether he was any better than the oligarchs but I feel that's unfair: he may have started off with the same oblivious greed but he was appalled in stages, and now I guess there is clear blue sky between them. I don't quite buy his line (both in the book and in recent interviews) about how great and rare it is to be able to "make money and do good at the same time" but as this saga continues, he and the Magnitsky Act are not irrelevant.
So I recommend, despite some annoying stuff in the writing and the first third or so where he himself is pretty annoying. I will get around to his next one, Freezing Order, sometime.
So I recommend, despite some annoying stuff in the writing and the first third or so where he himself is pretty annoying. I will get around to his next one, Freezing Order, sometime.
Not the best written book I’ve come across but the man isn’t an author by trade. As others have said, I would have loved to know more about certain characters, but the main thing is that the facts in this book conclusively prove that Russian government is no friend to the western world.
This book is the best book I have read in a long time and I encourage everyone to read it. From the very beginning, I couldn't put it down. I stayed up late and woke up early to read this book and was completely enthralled. If you want to learn about the Magnitsky Act, modern human rights abuses in Russia and how the Putin Regime functions, this book should be at the top of your list. Bill Browder wrote his story in an extremely heartfelt and digestible manner and I was in tears throughout it. Please please read this book.
I thought this book would be more interesting than it was. A big part of my disappointment is due to the fact that the author comes across as very self-aggrandizing. I was also distracted by his comments on the looks of every woman who is featured in the book, no matter her role. Did you know his first wife was super beautiful? Like, really, truly, the most beautiful. And that humans rights lawyer? Totally good-looking. And the woman he hired for his office? Super pretty! Like, that's great and all, but it's frankly weird and makes the author sound like a creep which is very off-putting.