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Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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Following his explosive #1 New York Times bestseller, Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he exposed Vladimir 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.

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Listening Length 10 hours and 29 minutes
Author Bill Browder
Narrator Adam Grupper
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Audible.com Release Date April 12, 2022
Publisher Recorded Books
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B09XN77VJN
Best Sellers Rank #75,855 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#98 in Historical Russia Biographies
#101 in Russian History (Audible Books & Originals)
#457 in Biographies of Politicians

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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2025
    It's a sequel to Browder's "Red Notice," and a true story that should make you fear for the future of the USA because of the character of Vladimir Putin and the malign influence Putin appears to wield over our current (2025) president. Browder deserves a Knighthood for his bravery in memorializing his friend Sergei Magnitsky, for shining a light on the theft of trillions of dollars of wealth from from the Russian people by its kleptocratic leaders, and for alerting us to the dangers of our present situation. Oh, and it's an easy read thanks to great editing as well as writing. (Good editors deserve more credit than is usually given them, IMO.)
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2022
    This is a phenomenal book, one of the best books I've ever read, so good that I am re-reading it. I contacted the publishing company because my copy didn't have an index. They replaced it with a copy that has an index. If you buy this book, I recommend you consider the e-version. This book is extremely well written, with a phenomenal story that reads like a novel. It displays unbelievable flaws in our judicial system. The reader that stated this book is politically leaning is nuts--Trumps willingness to hand Bill Browder over to Putin in a political exchange is a reflection on the extreme corruption of the Trump administration. Browder seems very deferential of many of the political right. This book displays what Americans really need to know about world affairs in a riveting expose. Put your politics aside and read this with an open mind.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2022
    True story and a page-turner. Extremely topical with current events in Ukraine. Not sure I’d have enjoyed as much or followed along as easily if I hadn’t read his earlier book before this one.
  • Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2024
    This book is extremely interesting and despite considerable detail, it reads easily and for me a real page turner. Browder is a hero for what he has done and I hope many people read this book and see what has and is going on because of Putin!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2022
    If you entertained any thoughts that Vladimir Putin and his gang of goons - murderers, extortionists, thugs, liars, have been misunderstood and maligned, then read this book and straighten out your thinking. From the time of Ivan the Terrible, through the abuses of the Romanov dynasty, Lenin, Stalin and the other Soviet henchmen, and now pitifully carried on by Vladimir Vladimirovich - all have ruled ruthlessly and with a single purpose: to maintain power at any cost, to steal from their own and from the West. Putin has asserted that the Russians are different, that they have not been corrupted by western values, carry on the true orthodox Christian religion. Bill Browder's "Freezing Order" shows just how right Putin is, that Russia is different from the West. In the west there is rule of law, respect for individual rights, and the basic notion that the state exists of the people, by the people, for the people. In Browder's book you will learn what Putin's state stands for. And if "Freezing Order" hasn't quite convinced you, just check your favorite news source (as long as it is not the anti-reality Russian agitprop) about the "military action of liberation" in Ukraine. There are heroes aplenty in the book, men and women who have stood up to Putin's thugs and paid the ultimate price. Browder's book reads like a dramatic Kafka nightmare - thrilling, horrifying, almost beyond belief, yet true. Must reading to understand Putin's twisted mind, and the efforts by gifted and dedicated men and women to shed light on the truth.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2024
    Very detailed and I am amazed at the author's determination to bring justice for his friend Sergei Magnitsky.
  • Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2023
    Bill Browder is a very, very brave man. Having experienced the full brutality of Putin's regime first-hand, his attempts to open Western eyes to the nature of the threat are finally, one hopes, bearing fruit. As we witness the latest evils perpetrated in Ukraine by the Russian thugs and war-criminals, it is no solace to realize that we could have seen this coming years ago if only we had been more alert.
    This book grips the reader like the finest Ludlum or Le Carré thriller, but with the frisson of knowing that it's not fiction. It all happened to Browder and his colleagues. Although there were points when I could hardly bear to turn the page for fear of what was about to transpire, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Sláva Ukrayíni!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2022
    This is a well-written memoir by Bill Browder, a companion piece to his very successful "Red Notice" (which relates his time in Russia and the many difficulties and dangers he faced developing a hedge fund there). Now, Mr. Browder continues the story of his battles with the Putin-led government and his (and his allies') continuing efforts to fight corruption, all the while looking over his shoulder to make sure he's not "rendered" back to Moscow to face trial there. It's a David v. Goliath story of money laundering, murder, intimidation, civil and criminal litigation on a worldwide scale (complete with lawyers' betrayals), and the inability or failure of various governments to protect its citizens. It's especially timely in light of the war in Ukraine. I read it in two sittings and found it both absorbing and chilling.
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  • RoryH
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Message for Anyone Dealing with Russia
    Reviewed in Canada on December 3, 2024
    A great book. Well written and very informative. Makes you glad to live in the West.
  • Sandeep Sen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic sequel
    Reviewed in India on May 5, 2024
    Excellent sequel to Red Notice. One of the best non fiction reads. The afterword is particularly well written in the context of the current political tug of war around military aid.
  • Vera F.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Tolles Buch!
    Reviewed in Germany on September 16, 2023
    Ein weiteres tolles Buch von Bill Browder.
  • North Wind
    5.0 out of 5 stars One more direct chronicle of being a target of the Kremlin’s wrath
    Reviewed in France on May 2, 2023
    Browder has had a professional life that in past epochs only extraordinary adventurers could dream of. Getting into a lane the monstrous authorities of Earth’s biggest country don’t want anyone to be and peek into what they’ve been doing for a long time (with impunity) has been a somersault. And he’s managed to overcome the dangers that destroyed a gifted and fair lawyer by the name of Magnitsky. A must read, even if you’re familiar with Red Notice.
  • angel
    5.0 out of 5 stars should be mandatory to read this book
    Reviewed in Spain on May 1, 2022
    Mr Browder have defend the most important values of our society.
    His commitment to go after the people who killed Sergei, and all the Russian mafia that was involved, deserves a very high recognition for Mr Browder.