

Here’s the craziest part: It’s all true, as told by that Stanford M.B.A., Bill Browder, in his new memoir, “Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice.” It’s a riveting account - and really, how could it not be? - marred only by Browder’s perhaps justifiable but nevertheless grating sense of self-importance.Ī cocksure math whiz, Browder rebels against his lefty family - his grandfather Earl Browder twice ran for president on the Communist ticket - by embracing capitalism. He avenges his lawyer’s death, exposing a cover-up at the highest levels of the Putin regime. The lawyer investigating the crime is tortured and dies in prison. While he’s gone, the Kremlin raids his fund and perpetrates an elaborate financial fraud.

After exposing widespread government corruption, he gets expelled from the country.

From there, he goes on to build the biggest hedge fund in Russia. The grandson of the head of the American Communist Party commits the ultimate act of rebellion: He gets a business degree from Stanford.
