Moscou, 2009. Sergueï Magnitski est arrêté et torturé à mort dans une geôle moscovite après avoir dévoilé une escroquerie fiscale de 230 millions de dollars. Depuis, son ami et collaborateur Bill Browder dénonce avec ferveur les machinations financières de Poutine et consorts, se retrouvant ainsi dans le viseur du Kremlin.
En 2012, aux côtés de Barack Obama, Browder a fait adopter la « loi Magnitski », permettant aux gouvernements étrangers de geler les biens des oligarques russes visés par la justice. Cette arme puissante contre les violations des droits de l'homme est maintenant en vigueur dans plus de trente pays, suscitant la fureur du président russe.
À travers une série d'épisodes mettant en scène des juges, des politiques et des hommes d'affaires, Le Règne de glace raconte le combat de Browder pour que justice soit faite, qu'importent les risques.
Ce récit explosif, où la réalité dépasse la fiction, dévoile l'étendue de la corruption politique et financière en Russie.
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.
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 An unburdening, a witness statement and a thriller all at the same time ... electrifying.
THE TIMES A shocking true-life thriller.
TOM STOPPARD --- 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.
Red Notice is a searing expose 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.
With fraud, bribery, corruption and torture exposed at every turn, Red Notice is a shocking political roller-coaster.
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 2 BESTSELLER ** THE NEW YORK TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER 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 Mind-blowing...Browder''s battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching Catherine Belton A jaw-dropping exposé by Putins anti-corruption nemesis Daily Telegraph Following his explosive international bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putins number one enemy by exposing Putins campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way. When Bill Browders young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his lifes 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. 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 Browders campaign to expose Putins corruption that prompted Russias 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 timely and stirring morality tale about how one man can take on one of the most ruthless villains in the world.
I was hooked from the first paragraph. More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, FREEZING ORDER has a stunning plot ... but with this stunning twist: it is all true'' Stephen Fry Following his explosive international bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putins number one enemy by exposing Putins campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way. When Bill Browders young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his lifes 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. 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 Browders campaign to expose Putins corruption that prompted Russias 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 ruthless villains in the world.
Haute finance, complot, meurtre : ce livre est un incroyable thriller. Pourtant tout est vrai. "Mon grand-père était le secrétaire général du parti Communiste américain ; j'ai décidé d'être le premier capitaliste en Russie". Bill Browder l'a fait : en pariant sur la gigantesque campagne de privatisation des entreprises russes, son fonds d'investissement a atteint quatre milliards de dollars. Mais le 1er novembre 2009, Sergueï Magnitski, son avocat, est conduit dans une cellule d'isolation d'une prison de Moscou, menotté puis battu à mort par huit policiers.
Son crime ? Avoir défendu Bill Browder contre le ministère de l'Intérieur impliqué dans une escroquerie d'un montant de 230 millions de dollars. Bill Browder abandonne alors les affaires pour se lancer dans un combat à corps perdu pour la liberté et la justice. Notice rouge nous emmène dans un voyage explosif depuis les hauts lieux de la finance new-yorkaise, en passant par sa guerre contre les oligarques, jusqu'au coeur du Kremlin.
Bienvenue dans une plongée glaçante dans les eaux troubles du système Poutine.
