Red Notice (Inscribed First Edition, First Printing)

Browder, Bill

ISBN 10: 147675571X / ISBN 13: 9781476755717

Published by Simon and Schuster, 2015

About this Item

Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this dramatic and chilling account of an American investor in post Soviet Russia who finds the business environment evolve from lucrative to life threatening as Vladimir Putin tights his grip on power -- and wallets. As his Russian holdings are looted by officials, Browder barely evades arrest. Tragically, one of his main Russian associates, an idealistic lawyer, is killed in regime custody. Inscribed by Bill Browder to a previous owner on the colophon page. 396 pages. Has light edge wear, minimal sign of previous use.

Seller Inventory # 016063

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Notice (Inscribed First Edition, First Printing)
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147675571X
• ISBN 13: 9781476755717
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin’s corruption.

Bill Browder’s journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford Business School to the dog-eat-dog world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s. It continued in Moscow, where Browder made his fortune heading the largest investment fund in Russia after the Soviet Union’s collapse. But when he exposed the corrupt oligarchs who were robbing the companies in which he was investing, Vladimir Putin turned on him and, in 2005, had him expelled from Russia.

In 2007, a group of law enforcement officers raided Browder’s offices in Moscow and stole $230 million of taxes that his fund’s companies had paid to the Russian government. Browder’s attorney Sergei Magnitsky investigated the incident and uncovered a sprawling criminal enterprise. A month after Sergei testified against the officials involved, he was arrested and thrown into pre-trial detention, where he was tortured for a year. On November 16, 2009, he was led to an isolation chamber, handcuffed to a bedrail, and beaten to death by eight guards in full riot gear.

Browder glimpsed the heart of darkness, and it transformed his life: he embarked on an unrelenting quest for justice in Sergei’s name, exposing the towering cover-up that leads right up to Putin. A 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.

About the Author

Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005. Since 2009, when his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was murdered in prison after uncovering a $230 million fraud committed by Russian government officials, Browder has been leading a campaign to expose Russia’s endemic corruption and human rights abuses. Before founding Hermitage, Browder was vice president at Salomon Brothers. He holds a BA in economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Stanford Business School.