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Bill Browder
Red Notice
How I Became Putin´s No. 1 Enemy
2016. 480 S. 198 mm
Verlag/Jahr: RANDOM HOUSE UK; CORGI 2016
ISBN: 0-552-17032-1 (0552170321)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-552-17032-1 (9780552170321)
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Corruption, dirty politics and murder in Russia - told by one of Putin´s Most Wanted.
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I´m killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know.
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
An unburdening, a witness statement and a thriller all at the same time ... electrifying.
THE TIMES
A shocking true-life thriller.
TOM STOPPARD
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In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight police officers in a freezing cell in a Moscow prison. His crime? Testifying against Russian officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes.
Red Notice is a searing exposé of the whitewash of this imprisonment and murder. The killing hasn´t been investigated. It hasn´t been punished. Bill Browder is still campaigning for justice for his late lawyer and friend. This is his explosive journey from the heady world of finance in New York and London in the 1990s, through battles with ruthless oligarchs in turbulent post-Soviet Union Moscow, to the shadowy heart of the Kremlin.
With fraud, bribery, corruption and torture exposed at every turn, Red Notice is a shocking political roller-coaster.
"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
Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005, when he was denied entry to the country after exposing widespread corruption. Since 2009, when his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was murdered in Russian police custody, he has been leading a global campaign to expose human rights abuses endemic in Russia. Consequentially, the ´Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act´ was signed into US law in 2012, imposing visa bans and asset freezes on certain officials involved in Magnitsky´s death. Browder is currently working to have similar legislation passed across the European Union and Canada.