Freezing Order, Bill Browder
Freezing Order, Bill Browder
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Freezing Order
A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

Bestseller

Author: Bill Browder

Narrator: Adam Grupper

Unabridged: 10 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/12/2022


Synopsis

Following his explosive #1 New York Times bestseller, Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he exposed Vladmir Putin's campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars from Russia—and how Putin is willing to kill anyone who stands in his way.

When Browder’s young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail in 2009, Browder cast aside his business career and made it his life’s mission to pursue justice for Sergei. One of the first steps of that mission was to uncover who had killed Sergei and profited from the $230 million
corruption scheme that he had exposed. As Browder and his team tracked the money that flowed out of Russia—through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the Americas—they discovered that Vladimir Putin himself was one of the beneficiaries of the crime.

After Western law-enforcement agencies began freezing the money, Putin retaliated. He and his cronies set honey traps for Browder, hired agents to chase him around the globe, murdered more of Browder’s Russian allies, and enlisted some of the West’s top lawyers and politicians in an attempt to bring Browder
down. Putin will stop at nothing to protect his wealth and power. As Freezing Order reveals, Browder’s campaign was a main impetus for Putin’s intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.

At once a financial caper, an international adventure, and a passionate plea for justice, Freezing Order is a stirring morality tale about how one man can take on one of the most dangerous and ruthless villains in the world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alfheidur on March 15, 2022

Can’t make this shit up. A timely pageturner that not only highlights the terrifying lengths that Putin will go to to protect his kleptocracy but also shows the susceptibility of American politicians to his propaganda. Unputdownable. I think it’s helpful, but not necessary, to have read Browder’s pri......more

Goodreads review by Malia on October 02, 2022

Fast-paced and all too relevant, this is a interesting and important read for people hoping to better understand the machinations of power within Russia and how those impact the rest of the world. Though it is, of course, very one-sided, it was a compelling read and one I can certainly recommend.......more

Goodreads review by Therese on April 27, 2023

Reading this for book club, I wasn’t sure what I was getting into, and thought this was going to be an exciting spy novel. Or maybe a story loosely based on real events. Once I started the book and found it was Bill Browder’s true story, I found it truly shocking. Mr. Browder, CEO of a hedge fund in......more

Goodreads review by Joy on April 20, 2022

This book tells the story of the Magnitsky Act, the tragic circumstances that surround its creation, and the role that it has had in freezing money laundering assets trailing from Russia and Vladimir Putin to banks and countries across the world. The tale, winding over 20 years from the 2006 finding......more