Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

A true political thriller about an American financier in the Russian Far East, the assassination of his young, morally-driven tax lawyer, and his perilous quest to expose the corruption inside the Kremlin.Beginning on the South Side of Chicago, Bill Browder's path took him through Stanford Business School and into the cutthroat world of hedge fund investment in the 1990s. It carried on in Moscow, where Browder amassed wealth by managing the biggest investment fund in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. However, Vladimir Putin turned on him and had him ejected from Russia in 2005 when he revealed the unscrupulous billionaires who were stealing from the businesses he was investing in. When law enforcement agents raided Browder's Moscow offices in 2007, they took $230 million in taxes that the firms under his fund had paid to the Russian government. After looking after the event, Sergei Magnitsky, Browder's lawyer, discovered a large-scale criminal operation. Sergei was detained one month after testifying against the implicating authorities and placed in pre-trial prison, where he endured a year of torture. On November 16, 2009, eight guards in full riot gear carried him to an isolation cell, chained him to a bedrail, and beat him to death. After getting a taste of the dark side, Browder's life changed forever. He started a relentless search for justice in Sergei's honor and exposed the massive cover-up that starts all the way up to Putin. Red Notice is the tale of a single guy against overwhelming obstacles to make a difference in the world. It is a financial caper, a criminal thriller, and a political struggle.