{"product_id":"rule-of-lies","title":"Rule of Lies","description":"\u0026lt;p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\n15.0pt\"\u0026gt;'This\r\nbook is NUTS! – in the best possible way. A relentless roller coaster ride\r\nthrough the heaven and hell of modern Russia' PETER POMERANZEV\u0026lt;p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\n15.0pt\"\u0026gt;'Written\r\nwith all the pace and energy of a John Grisham novel … An incredible true story\r\nand a great read!' BILL BROWDER\u0026lt;p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\n15.0pt\"\u0026gt;'An\r\nastonishing glimpse into a rollercoaster life. A real page-turner' CATHERINE\r\nBELTON\u0026lt;p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\nnormal\"\u0026gt;\r\n\r\n\u0026lt;p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\n15.0pt\"\u0026gt;'If\r\nyou want to know how Putin ruined Russia and to understand why it matters, you\r\nshould read Rule of Lies' OLIVER BULLOUGH\u0026lt;p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\n15.0pt\"\u0026gt;'Jamison\r\nFirestone is a legend … his book is a remarkable firsthand account' FIONA HILL\u0026lt;p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\n15.0pt\"\u0026gt;An\r\nAmerican lawyer’s brilliant, propulsive story of witnessing and playing a part\r\nin the transformation of Russia under Yeltsin and Putin. A true tale of\r\nfascinating personalities, criminal intrigue, harrowing situations, audacious\r\nactions and international politics that combines Bill Browder’s Red\r\nNotice with Michael Lewis’s Liar's Poker.\u0026lt;p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\n15.0pt\"\u0026gt;Raised\r\nby his father, a multimillionaire conman and crack addict who owned Manhattan’s\r\nmost expensive brothel, twenty-four-year-old Jamison R. Firestone decided to\r\nchange the channel. He graduated from law school in 1991 and sought his fortune\r\nin Gorbachev’s USSR, establishing Russia’s first independent foreign law firm.\u0026lt;p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\n15.0pt\"\u0026gt;Out\r\nof the frying pan and into the fire, Jamison lived in the maelstrom that was\r\nRussia, defending himself and his clients from mafia attacks, dealing with\r\ncorrupt police officers, having his law office raided by armed commandos, and\r\nonce having to bug the offices of the Russian police.\u0026lt;p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\n15.0pt\"\u0026gt;Jamison\r\nwas at the centre of some of Russia’s most important events. He employed Sergei\r\nMagnitsky who was murdered for uncovering the largest tax theft in Russian\r\nhistory and teamed up with Bill Browder and Alexei Navalny to expose his\r\nkillers. Along the way he inadvertently taught Navalny to make videos exposing\r\ncorruption and started a war with the Russian government over passage of the\r\nMagnitsky Acts which threatened to sanction Russia’s most powerful people.\u0026lt;p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:\r\n15.0pt\"\u0026gt;A\r\nreal-life story that reads like a spy novel, Rule of Lies goes\r\ndeep inside contemporary Russia and events that have reshaped the globe. Darkly\r\ncomic, sometimes horrifying and deeply moving, it is a chilling warning of what\r\ncan happen when a nascent democracy succumbs to one man’s corrupt iron rule,\r\nbecoming not only an authoritarian nation but a profoundly criminal one—a true\r\nmafia state.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u0026amp;nbsp;","brand":"Jamison R. Firestone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45963109859388,"sku":"9780008753245","price":5495.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/9780008753245.jpg?v=1786133524","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/rule-of-lies","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}