
On Amazon it was rated No 1 in Books on International Business and No 1 in Books on Russia. ‘Red Notice’ won the hearts and minds of readers across the world and became an instant best seller when it was published last year. Putin famously retaliated with a law that bans Americans from adopting Russian orphans.Ī financial caper, a crime thriller, and a political crusade, Red Notice is the story of one man taking on overpowering odds to change the world, and also the story of how, without intending to, he found meaning in his life.Bill Browder’s ‘Red Notice’ –New York Times Bestseller – Is Launched in Paperback in the UKġ2 February 2016 – Bill Browder’s ‘Red Notice’, a best selling real-life thriller about one man’s fight for justice against Russian President Vladimir Putin, is launched this week in paperback in the UK. Because of that, he became Putin’s number one enemy, especially after Browder succeeded in having a law passed in the United States-The Magnitsky Act-that punishes a list of Russians implicated in the lawyer’s murder. He saw the murderous heart of the Putin regime and has spent the last half decade on a campaign to expose it. His Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky wasn’t so lucky: he ended up in jail, where he was tortured to death. Bill Browder started out his adult life as the Wall Street maverick whose instincts led him to Russia just after the breakup of the Soviet Union, where he made his fortune.Īlong the way he exposed corruption, and when he did, he barely escaped with his life. This is a story about an accidental activist. “Part John Grisham-like thriller, part business and political memoir.” - The New York Times Browder’s business saga meshes well with the story of corruption and murder in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, making Red Notice an early candidate for any list of the year’s best books” ( Fortune). Freezing Order, the follow-up to Red Notice, is available now! “ does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liar’s Poker did for our understanding of Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, and the mortgage-backed securities business in the 1980s.
