I walked to the elevator, the manager following directly behind. He handed me a room key with both hands cupped in a vaguely Japanese manner and stepped from behind the counter. He scanned my passport and fed the credit card-a Black American Express Card to which I’d recently been upgraded-into a chip reader. “Could you please give me your passport and credit card?” I handed them over. I will accompany you to your room.” He spoke in careful English. Managers don’t typically have surprises for me. We have a very special surprise for you!” When I arrived at my hotel that evening, the manager scurried over to the check-in desk and ushered the clerk aside. the following morning, which in Spain counts as an early meeting.
I was there to share evidence about how dirty money connected to the murder of my Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, had been used to purchase luxury properties along Spain’s Costa del Sol. I’d flown in for a meeting with José Grinda, Spain’s top anti-corruption prosecutor. Madrid was uncharacteristically cool for the end of spring. ExcerptĬhapter 1: The Madrid Arrest – 1 – The Madrid Arrest SPRING 2018 As Freezing Order reveals, it was Browder’s campaign to expose Putin’s corruption that prompted Russia’s intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.Īt 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-and win.
Putin will stop at nothing to protect his money. 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.
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 discover that Vladimir Putin himself was a beneficiary of the crime.Īs law enforcement agencies began freezing the money, Putin retaliated. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. When Bill Browder’s young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life’s mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin’s number one enemy by exposing Putin’s campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way.
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