Review of 'Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man?s Fight for Justice' on 'Storygraph'
1 star
The incidents related are quite shocking and eye opening. I believe that the information is politically good information to have. I also found it very difficult to reconcile the author with the human rights story he was telling. While he send to be telling a wrenching story, most of the book is still about himself. He made a lot of money for very wealthy people, and as far as I can tell ONLY made money for already very wealthy people. Was himself wealthy, as his stories about traveling and eating at fancy restaurants constantly remind the reader. Although he was originally from the United States, he went abroad in search of wealth, yet tried to act later in the book as though he was deeply invested in his home country. Yet only came for political meetings or vacations. He was only in the situation he found himself in because he …
The incidents related are quite shocking and eye opening. I believe that the information is politically good information to have. I also found it very difficult to reconcile the author with the human rights story he was telling. While he send to be telling a wrenching story, most of the book is still about himself. He made a lot of money for very wealthy people, and as far as I can tell ONLY made money for already very wealthy people. Was himself wealthy, as his stories about traveling and eating at fancy restaurants constantly remind the reader. Although he was originally from the United States, he went abroad in search of wealth, yet tried to act later in the book as though he was deeply invested in his home country. Yet only came for political meetings or vacations. He was only in the situation he found himself in because he threatened very wealthy people in Russia. By accumulating wealth in Russia for wealthy people outside of Russia. While he was exposing corruption and greed with his later human rights campaigning, he was himself greedy. I could not forget this fact throughout the entire book. He wants to paint himself as having done such a great thing, and while what happened as a result was a very good thing, I can't see him as entirely what he makes himself out to be. He experienced some of the corrupt politics in the United States government, yet has nothing to say on that, his only interest in using the country's international status to get back at the corruption in Russia. This book was interesting and I learned some eye opening things, but overall do not like the author. It felt much too long. Most of the book is about the author's life, his "struggles," and his great work. I didn't need all that information.
