Freezing Order by Bill Browder
When Sergei Magnitsky, Bill Browder’s young Russian attorney, was murdered in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life’s work to track down his murderers and ensure that they were brought to justice. Finding out who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over was the first move. Browder and his team were stunned to learn that Vladimir Putin was a victim of the crime as they followed the money as it flowed from Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus to Western Europe and the Americas. Putin retaliated as the money was being frozen by law enforcement agents.
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To bring him down, he and his allies set up honey traps, hired process servers to follow Browder through cities, killed more of his Russian allies, and enlisted the help of some of the nation’s best attorneys and politicians. Putin will do anything to keep his money safe. As Freezing Order shows, Russia’s involvement in the 2016 US presidential election was motivated by Browder’s campaign to highlight Putin’s corruption.
Freezing Order is “mandatory reading for anyone who wants to understand the tactics of modern autocracy,” at once a financial caper, an international adventure, and a passionate appeal for justice. It is an inspiring morality story about how one man can defeat one of the most ruthless villains in the entire universe.
Bill Browder is a guy of immense bravery. After witnessing the complete brutality of Putin’s regime firsthand, one hopes that his efforts to alert the West to the threat’s nature are now beginning to pay off. Knowing that we could have predicted this years ago if only we had been more vigilant is not consoling as we watch the newest atrocities committed in Ukraine by Russian thugs and war criminals.
This book has the same level of suspense as the best Ludlum or Le Carré thrillers, but with the added tension of understanding, it is not a work of fiction. All of this occurred to Browder and his coworkers.
