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'This
book is NUTS! – in the best possible way. A relentless roller coaster ride
through the heaven and hell of modern Russia' PETER POMERANZEV
'Written
with all the pace and energy of a John Grisham novel … An incredible true story
and a great read!' BILL BROWDER
'An
astonishing glimpse into a rollercoaster life. A real page-turner' CATHERINE
BELTON
'If
you want to know how Putin ruined Russia and to understand why it matters, you
should read Rule of Lies' OLIVER BULLOUGH
'Jamison
Firestone is a legend … his book is a remarkable firsthand account' FIONA HILL
An
American lawyer’s brilliant, propulsive story of witnessing and playing a part
in the transformation of Russia under Yeltsin and Putin. A true tale of
fascinating personalities, criminal intrigue, harrowing situations, audacious
actions and international politics that combines Bill Browder’s Red
Notice with Michael Lewis’s Liar's Poker.
Raised
by his father, a multimillionaire conman and crack addict who owned Manhattan’s
most expensive brothel, twenty-four-year-old Jamison R. Firestone decided to
change the channel. He graduated from law school in 1991 and sought his fortune
in Gorbachev’s USSR, establishing Russia’s first independent foreign law firm.
Out
of the frying pan and into the fire, Jamison lived in the maelstrom that was
Russia, defending himself and his clients from mafia attacks, dealing with
corrupt police officers, having his law office raided by armed commandos, and
once having to bug the offices of the Russian police.
Jamison
was at the centre of some of Russia’s most important events. He employed Sergei
Magnitsky who was murdered for uncovering the largest tax theft in Russian
history and teamed up with Bill Browder and Alexei Navalny to expose his
killers. Along the way he inadvertently taught Navalny to make videos exposing
corruption and started a war with the Russian government over passage of the
Magnitsky Acts which threatened to sanction Russia’s most powerful people.
A
real-life story that reads like a spy novel, Rule of Lies goes
deep inside contemporary Russia and events that have reshaped the globe. Darkly
comic, sometimes horrifying and deeply moving, it is a chilling warning of what
can happen when a nascent democracy succumbs to one man’s corrupt iron rule,
becoming not only an authoritarian nation but a profoundly criminal one—a true
mafia state.
| Publication Date: | 14/06/2026 |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Binding: | Paper Back |
| ISBN: | 9780008753245 |
| Categories: | Non Fiction History Available On Demand |
