Inside Putin’s Russia, Power Turns Deadly and Personal
Inside Putin’s Russia, corruption and ambition become frighteningly personal. Jamison R. Firestone’s account has the propulsion of a thriller, but its force comes from witnessing real legal, criminal and political systems bend around power, fear and survival in terrifying detail.
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RULE OF LIES: My Wild Ride Through Chaos, Corruption, and Murder in Putin's Russia
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Inside Putin’s Russia, Power Turns Deadly and Personal
Inside Putin’s Russia, corruption and ambition become frighteningly personal. Jamison R. Firestone’s account has the propulsion of a thriller, but its force comes from witnessing real legal, criminal and political systems bend around power, fear and survival in terrifying detail.
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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.
Ideal for readers who:
- Read explosive real-life accounts of geopolitical corruption delivered with the breakneck pace of a political thriller.
- Respond to complex legal battles, high-stakes whistleblowing and dangerous moral choices in hostile territories.
- Are deeply interested in contemporary Russian history, Putin-era oligarchies and modern international intrigue.
- Seek non-fiction narratives that manage to feel incredibly urgent, intensely personal and profoundly unsettling.
- About The Author
- Jamison Firestone established the first independent foreign law firm in Russia where he lived for eighteen years. He is a co-founder along with Sir William Browder of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign which created the Magnitsky human rights and anti-corruption sanctions regimes. He also ran the Navalny 35 campaign promoting the sanctioning of corrupt oligarchs and officials identified by Alexei Navalny. He currently works on seizing Russian state assets for the benefit of Ukraine and has been featured on the BBC, Bloomberg, CBC, and in several documentaries. He lives in London.
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- ISBN
- 9780008753245
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- William Collins, (04 June 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 400
- Weight
- 520 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 x 32 mm
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