The end of the Cold War and the promise of a new and more harmonious interaction beckoned. In the late 1990s the West was optimistic about the future of relationships with Russia. Red Notice is the story dating back to the 1990s when Browder, an American-born British financier and in more recent years a political activist, was CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, which, at one time, was the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia. By all accounts he is still on Putin’s most wanted list. The fall out for him will, no doubt last a lifetime. He has first-hand experience of life in Russia, a country he loved. Many of you watching the current reporting by the BBC may have seen an interview with Bill Browder, the author of Red Notice. It is an autobiography, a tale of promise, then deceit, lawlessness and horror. With events in the Ukraine on everybody’s minds and the ruthlessness of Putin evident to all, I thought I would write a review of a book that both gripped and horrified me in equal measure.
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