{"id":2420,"date":"2019-05-25T13:09:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T19:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2019-05-31T13:25:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T19:25:07","slug":"red-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2420","title":{"rendered":"Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Bill Browder, 2015, Simon & Shuster<\/p>\n

I thought this was a very good book, well-written and informative.\u00c2\u00a0 There are some reviews on Amazon that fault the author for being self-absorbed.\u00c2\u00a0 This book is about him and his experience with Russian crooks, some of whom may have wanted to murder him.\u00c2\u00a0 I can easily understand why someone in his situation would be somewhat self-absorbed.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this book confirmed my desire not to travel to or in Russia ever again.\u00c2\u00a0 When I made my short visit to St. Petersburg on a cruise a few years back, I observed how nobody seemed to smile or make eye contact.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I can understand why.\u00c2\u00a0 There are many other places in this world I haven’t visited yet where people are much happier.\u00c2\u00a0 With the time I have left, I won’t be wasting it on Russia ever again.<\/p>\n

I thought the book was well written and well organized.\u00c2\u00a0 The only problem I had with it was that I sometimes had trouble keeping track of all the characters.\u00c2\u00a0 He might have done what Tolstoy did in\u00c2\u00a0 War and Peace<\/em>, which was to include a cast of characters at the beginning of the book.<\/p>\n

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in what goes on in Russia.\"4.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Bill Browder, 2015, Simon & Shuster I thought this was a very good book, well-written and informative.\u00c2\u00a0 There are some reviews on Amazon that fault the author for being self-absorbed.\u00c2\u00a0 This book is about him and his experience with …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}