Out in the cold in Putin's Russia

Like its prequel, this book is not a bald account of the intricacies of high finance and arcane law-making only

Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder and Surviving Vladimir Putin

Author: Bill Browder

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Price: Rs 799

As a hedge fund manager Bill Browder knows all about timing. But even he could not have anticipated the exquisite timeliness of Freezing Order, a sequel to his 2016 page-turner Red Notice, an expose of the massive financial fraud at the centre of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s murderous oligarchic regime. Freezing Order was released on April 12, a little over a month after Russia launched a “special operation” in Ukraine causing the US to tighten sanctions on Russia and Mr