Freezing Order

'An unburdening, a witness statement and a thriller all at the same time ... electrifying.' The Times<BR><BR>I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know.<BR><BR><BR>A Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. A true-life thriller by one of Putin's Most Wanted.<BR><BR>In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight police officers in a freezing cell in a Moscow prison. His crime? Testifying against Russian officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes.<BR><BR>Red Notice is a searing exposé of the whitewash of this imprisonment and murder. The killing hasn't been investigated. It hasn't been punished. Bill Browder is still campaigning for justice for his late lawyer and friend. This is his explosive journey from the heady world of finance in New York and London in the 1990s, through battles with ruthless oligarchs in turbulent post-Soviet Union Moscow, to the shadowy heart of the Kremlin.<BR><BR>With fraud, bribery, corruption and torture exposed at every turn, Red Notice is a shocking political roller-coaster.<BR>__________________<BR><BR>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<BR><BR>'A shocking true-life thriller.' Tom Stoppard<BR><BR>'A riveting account... it is a powerful story and Browder tells it skilfully.' The Washington Post

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 2 BESTSELLER  **  THE NEW YORK TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER<BR>‘More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true’ Stephen Fry<BR>‘Mind-blowing...Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching’ Catherine Belton<BR>‘A jaw-dropping exposé by Putin’s anti-corruption nemesis’ Daily Telegraph<BR><BR>Following his explosive international bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin’s number one enemy by exposing Putin’s campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way.<BR><BR>When Bill Browder’s young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life’s mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the Americas, they were shocked to discovered that Vladimir Putin himself was a beneficiary of the crime.<BR><BR>As law enforcement agencies began freezing the money, Putin retaliated. He and his cronies set up honey traps, hired process servers to chase Browder through cities, murdered more of his Russian allies, and enlisted some of the top lawyers and politicians in America to bring him down. Putin will stop at nothing to protect his money. As Freezing Order reveals, it was Browder’s campaign to expose Putin’s corruption that prompted Russia’s intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.<BR><BR>At once a financial caper, an international adventure and a passionate plea for justice, Freezing Order is a timely and stirring morality tale about how one man can take on one of the most ruthless villains in the world.