from LisCarey

Bill Browder, grandson of the former head of the American Communist Party, and son of a prominent mathematician, as a teenager cast around for ways to rebel against his family. It took him a while to conclude that the obvious way was to become a capitalist, and a little bit longer to realize he h...

from geza.tatrallyay

An excellent true account of the author's ups and downs as an investor in Putin's Russia. Along the way, he encounters brazen acts of embezzlement, theft and even murder by this lawless kleptocracy, losing his friend and lawyer Sergei Magnitsky to the agents of the 'rogue' state. A well-written g...

from BrianEWilliams

An incredible and shocking expose of "official corruption" (that's a good oxymoron) in Russia. The story traces Browder's life and initial success as an investor in Russian businesses as they are privatized after the collapse of the USSR. The oligarchs get really greedy after the Russian economy ...

from Meredy

An extraordinary work that ought to be read by anyone who is affected by the international politics of today (who isn't?) and especially by anyone who wants to understand what goes on between the U.S. and Russia. For one thing, that infamous Trump Tower meeting of June 2016 (not mentioned in this...

from Citizenjoyce

Bill Browder comes off as greedy and self-serving. He bemoans the fact that 22 Russian oligarchs managed to cheat the Russian people out of 39% of their public works while he seemed to have been doing exactly the same thing. However, the information about the enactment of the Magnitsky act is pri...