'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
'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 books is a remarkable firsthand account' FIONA HILL
An American lawyers 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 Browders Red Notice with Michael Lewiss Liar's Poker.
Raised by his father, a multimillionaire conman and crack addict who owned Manhattans 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 Gorbachevs USSR, establishing Russias 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 Russias 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 Russias 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 mans corrupt iron rule, becoming not only an authoritarian nation but a profoundly criminal onea true mafia state.
