- Published: 1 April 2021
- ISBN: 9780552170321
- Imprint: Corgi
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 480
- RRP: $26.00
Red Notice
A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin’s no. 1 enemy
- Published: 1 April 2021
- ISBN: 9780552170321
- Imprint: Corgi
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 480
- RRP: $26.00
Browder's true story is a heart-in-your-throat page turner, and the only close-up look I know of what it's like to take on Putin. It is also a moving account of a man who found his calling, and ended up winning in the end.
Bryan Burrough, co-author of "Barbarians at the Gate" and author of "Public Enemies" and "The Big Rich"
A fascinating, heart-stopping account of how to take on Putin - and win. It's exciting to read about Browder's roller-coaster ride to wealth in Russia, and then how compassion for Sergei Magnitsky, his murdered lawyer, inspires his memorable struggle against the venal apparatchiks of a corrupt state. This is the gripping - and absolutely true - story behind the Magnitsky Law, a signal advance in human rights.
Geoffrey Robertson QC, author of "Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle For Global Justice"
This book reads like a thriller, but it's a true, important, and inspiring real story. Bill Browder is an amazing moral crusader, and his book is a must-read for anyone who seeks to understand Russia, Putin, or the challenges of doing business in the world today.
Walter Isaacson
This indispensable look at the brutal realities of the Putin regime is of even greater relevance thanks to Bill Browder’s unique expertise and personal experience inside the belly of the beast.
Garry Kasparov
This book shows the difference that one person can make when they refuse to back down.
Pussy Riot
The story of Sergei Magnitsky's life and death is a shocking true-life thriller, and Bill Browder was the man to write it.
Tom Stoppard
Browder's narrative lays out in vivid detail the often murky mechanisms of Russia's kleptocratic economy, culminating in an engrossing account of what would surely be the heist of a century were it not so representative of business as usual. It's also a chilling, sinister portrait of a society in which the rule of law has been destroyed by those sworn to enforce it. The result is an alternatively harrowing and inspiring saga of appalling crime and undeserved punishment in the Wild East.
Publishers Weekly
A jaw-dropping account of the Russian authorities' cover-up of the imprisonment, torture and murder of a brave young lawyer.
Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller
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
A fascinating and unexpected story - including the fact that my work played Cupid.
Mitch Albom, author of 'Tuesdays With Morrie'
A sizzling account of Mr Browder's rise, fall and metamorphosis from bombastic financier to renowned human-rights activist ... Reads more like a financial thriller than a real-life story.
The Economist
A gripping read, tightly written.
Management Today Magazine
[Browder's] freewheeling, snappy book describes the meteoric rise, and disastrous fall, of a buccaneer capitalist who crossed the wrong people and paid a steep price.
New York Times
Fast-paced
The Sunday Times
An expose of years of state-sponsored torture and murder ... this story of courage combined with a dash of obsessiveness is about the real here and now.
Sonia Purnell, The Independent
A chilling story ... that makes the dirty dealings of House of Cards look like Snow White.
Toronto Star
Engaging
Wall Street Journal
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
Norman Pearlstine, Fortune
The cut and thrust, and the high stakes, make for a zesty tale.
William Grimes, New York Times
This is perhaps the year’s most astonishing business book
The Times, Australia
A dramatic recounting of Browder's battle with the Russian system. But more important, it's a tribute to Magnitsky.
Christian Science Monitor
This episode matters because, largely through Magnitsky’s courageous efforts, it is a superbly well-documented case of state-sponsored crime ... An important tale.
A D Miller, The Spectator
An impassioned personal broadside against the Kremlin ... [a] fitting tribute to a lawyer who was angered by the criminality he saw around him and was determined to do something about it.
Financial Times
An unburdening, a witness statement and a thriller all at the same time ... Electrifying ... One heck of a read.
Giles Whittell, The Times
Browder's Red Notice is a classic tale of two halves: the first is a ripping yarn of murky financiers, desperate investments, and huge sums of money; the second is a terrible tragedy of corrupt officials, grieving friends and the murder of an honest man. I can't think of another book like it ... Required reading for anyone seeking to Putin's Russia.
Oliver Bullough, The Observer
I was hooked ... Browder's book is a real thriller. I was cheering him on as he retold his dogged fight to bring the fate of his murdered, gentle but stubborn lawyer to international attention.
Marcus Tanner, The Independent
A riveting account... it is a powerful story and Browder tells it skilfully.
The Washington Post
Red Notice is a dramatic, moving and thriller-like account of how Magnitsky’s death transformed Browder from hedge-fund manager to global human rights crusader.
Luke Harding, The Guardian