Books of The Times
By WILLIAM GRIMES
In the early 1990s Bill Browder invested $2,000 in a handful of Polish companies being privatized after the collapse of Communism. Eastern Europe was dipping a toe into the cold bath of free-market capitalism, and Mr. Browder, fresh out of Stanford University’s business school, wanted to jump in, too.
His small investment quadrupled in value within the year and went on to repay him tenfold. “For those who don’t know, the sensation of finding a ‘ten-bagger’ is the financial equivalent of smoking crack cocaine,” he writes in “Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice.” “Once you’ve done it, you want to repeat it over and over and over as many times as you can.”
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A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
By Bill Browder
Illustrated. 396 pages. Simon & Schuster. $28.
A version of this review appears in print on February 2, 2015, on page C1 of the New York edition with the headline: To Russia, With Capitalist Ambitions. Order Reprints| Today’s Paper|Subscribe
