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Red Notice

By: Bill Browder
Narrated by: Adam Grupper
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November 2009. Sergei Magnitsky is led to an isolation cell in a Moscow prison and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million in taxes. Magnitsky’s brutal killing has remained uninvestigated to this day.

Red Notice is a searing exposé of the Russian authorities responsible for the murder, slicing deep into the heart of the Kremlin to uncover its sordid truths.

©2015 Hermitage Media Limited (P)2015 Recorded Books Inc Freedom & Security Politics & Government Russia Russian & Soviet World Heartfelt Scary Thought-Provoking
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"Reads like a classic thriller, with an everyman hero alone and in danger in a hostile foreign city...but it’s all true, and it’s a story that needs to be told." (Lee Child)
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This book is one of the most interesting books I have read in a long time, and far more than just a biography. The background information about how the banking system and investment funds work is fascinating, and the insight into the Russian way of 'banking' and politics is eye-opening and downright scary. Disbelief and amazement describe this part of the book. The personal story of the author and his fight for justice for his friend, and his achievements in this fight were what made me cry on several occasions. I am glad that I bought the audible version of the book, as I particularly enjoyed listening to Bill Browder himself reading out the last chapter. It made the whole experience of the book far more personal. All in all I would say this is a must-read for anybody who is interested in our modern world of finance and politics, as it gives an insight to what goes on behind the scenes, and it also shows what one man with determination and perseverance can achieve.

Amazement, disbelief and tears

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A genuinely moving true story of how a corrupt regime will go to any length to steal money and undermine judicial systems to cover it up and murder a very brave man who would not be intimidated to change his testimony to suit their purposes.

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An extraordinary story of courage against a corrupt regime making the author's life a nightmare. From the Panama papers book I knew that Putin had amassed a huge fortune to make himself the richest man in the world, but not the sheer extent of the corruption in Russia that encompasses the police, government officials and the legal system and the ruthless lengths that so many were (and probably still are) willing to go to cover up their fraudulent activities. It's so sad that the optimism of the late 1980s when the Berlin fell and Russian appeared to be becoming a democracy that the countries natural wealth was plundered by a few leaving the ordinary people poorer. I felt outraged by the helplessness of people trying to do the right thing and fight the corruption but were relentlessly harried, imprisoned, tortured and some killed by a state system rotten to the core that even pursued their victims in other countries as we know only too well in the UK will Russian dissidents murdered on out streets. The author ends the book with a shocking statement: that if he is murdered we'll know who did it.

What's so troubling is the helplessness of ordinary people to stop those in power if the latter as hellbent on a self-serving agenda. I used to think that this would be impossible in the UK, but I'm not so sure in the light of recent events.

The narrator does a fine job.

Mind-blowingly shocking

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The headline reviews are true, parts of this genuinely read like a fictional thriller.

The only criticism I have of this book is the author's self justification and almost complete lack of self reflection throughout, there are obvious moral and ethical questions, not least about the transfer and control of capital and wealth, which hang in the air unaddressed.

But that is the author's choice, and if you can get past it there is so much of interest, the whole book provides a huge amount to enthrall. The description of the russian economic and political climate from mid 1990s to mid 2000s is told through the story of Mr. Browders company Hermitage Investments and is fascinating, giving an excellent context and some explanation for current global relations. Mr. Browder is an excellent storyteller, which must have contibuted greatly to his success in business, and in completing this book he has used this skill to provide a fitting tribute to and memorial of his murdered colleague Sergei Magnitsky.

A final word for the narration - Adam Grupper's performance is excellent, and lends appropriate and engaging voices to the real life people who appear in the book.

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A book I am very pleased to have listened to. Not to be restricted only to business people.

If you don't read it, you won't believe it.

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