Bill Browder's journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford Business School to the dog-eat-dog world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s. It continued in Moscow, where Browder made his fortune heading the largest investment fund in Russia after the Soviet Union's collapse. But when he exposed the corrupt oligarchs who were robbing the companies in which he was investing, Vladimir Putin turned on him and, in 2005, had him...

Freezing Order tells the story of how Browder has gone after the people, who received the $230 million that Sergei was killed over. It begins the moment Browder's team tracked the money, as it flowed out of Russia, through the Baltics and Cyprus, and on to Western countries. Everywhere it moved, it corrupted. As western law enforcement agencies began freezing the money, the Russian government reacted by setting up honey traps, administering rare poisons,...