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The Devil Reached Toward the Sky

An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb

by Garrett M. Graff ...

Narrated by Garrett M. Graff, Edoardo Ballerini, A Full Cast ...

Unabridged

20 hours 25 min

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Magisterial…A stunning account that brings to the fore the nuclear saga’s surreal combination of ingenuity, fate, and terror.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) • “If you are an intelligent person, or at the very least think you are, you have to read The Devil Reached Toward the Sky…This period in history has ... Read more

$34.99 USD

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Magisterial…A stunning account that brings to the fore the nuclear saga’s surreal combination of ingenuity, fate, and terror.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) • “If you are an intelligent person, or at the very least think you are, you have to read The Devil Reached Toward the Sky…This period in history has
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The Hidden History of Burma

Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

by Thant Myint-U ...

Narrated by Assaf Cohen ...

Unabridged

9 hours 36 min

Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma's population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. But when decades of military dictatorship finally ended and internationally beloved Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from long years of house arrest, hopes soared. World leaders such as Barack Obama ushered in waves of international support ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma's population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. But when decades of military dictatorship finally ended and internationally beloved Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from long years of house arrest, hopes soared. World leaders such as Barack Obama ushered in waves of international support
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Secondhand Time

The Last of the Soviets

by Svetlana Alexievich ...

Narrated by Amanda Carlin, Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, Kimberly Farr, Kirby Heyborne, Hillary Huber, Rebecca Lowman, Jorjeana Marie, Coleen Marlo, Kathleen McInerney, Fred Sanders ...

Unabridged

22 hours 58 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNEROne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus ... Read more

$30.99 USD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNEROne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus
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Analectas

by Confucio ...

Narrated by José Peña Coto ...

Unabridged

2 hours 51 min

“Al ver a una persona virtuosa piensa en igualarla; al ver a una persona no virtuosa reflexiona sobre ti mismo.” Confucio.SABIDURIA ORIENTAL MILENARIA.Las Analectas, "Lún Yǔ" (论语), son una colección de enseñanzas, dichos y pensamientos del filósofo chino Confucio (551-479 a.C.) y sus discípulos. Esta obra, compilada por sus seguidores después de su muerte, es una de las fuentes más importantes de ... Read more

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“Al ver a una persona virtuosa piensa en igualarla; al ver a una persona no virtuosa reflexiona sobre ti mismo.” Confucio.SABIDURIA ORIENTAL MILENARIA.Las Analectas, "Lún Yǔ" (论语), son una colección de enseñanzas, dichos y pensamientos del filósofo chino Confucio (551-479 a.C.) y sus discípulos. Esta obra, compilada por sus seguidores después de su muerte, es una de las fuentes más importantes de
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In Sha Allah, If God Wills It

The Real-Life Story of an Afghan Combat Interpreter

by Ron Farina ...

Narrated by GM Hakim ...

Unabridged

6 hours 57 min

“Abdul Atah’s service and sacrifice for America makes a moving and meaningful story. His dedication to our nation—its ideals of freedom and justice—should reaffirm our own.” — United States Senator Richard BlumenthalWounded twice in service to America, Afghan combat interpreter Abdul Atah Wahedi is one of America’s unknown heroes, but to the Taliban, he is considered the “Voice of the Infidel.” As ... Read more

$22.99 USD

“Abdul Atah’s service and sacrifice for America makes a moving and meaningful story. His dedication to our nation—its ideals of freedom and justice—should reaffirm our own.” — United States Senator Richard BlumenthalWounded twice in service to America, Afghan combat interpreter Abdul Atah Wahedi is one of America’s unknown heroes, but to the Taliban, he is considered the “Voice of the Infidel.” As
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Everything Under the Heavens

How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

by Howard W. French ...

Narrated by Nicholas Hormann ...

Unabridged

11 hours 55 min

From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy.For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set ... Read more

$22.99 USD

From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy.For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set
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The Saigon Guns

A True Story of Aerial Combat in the Fall of 1972

by John Thomas Hoffman ...

Narrated by Shawn Compton ...

Unabridged

15 hours 2 min

Few Americans know the facts about the final year of US combat operations in South Vietnam. As political will to sustain the fight shrank and the US withdrew most of their ground forces, the Soviets and North Vietnamese sought battlefield success to strengthen their negotiating position at the Paris peace talks. In March of 1972, North Vietnam invaded the South with five armored divisions, massive ... Read more

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Few Americans know the facts about the final year of US combat operations in South Vietnam. As political will to sustain the fight shrank and the US withdrew most of their ground forces, the Soviets and North Vietnamese sought battlefield success to strengthen their negotiating position at the Paris peace talks. In March of 1972, North Vietnam invaded the South with five armored divisions, massive
... Read more
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Chernobyl and Kyshtym: The History of the Soviet Union’s Biggest Nuclear Disasters

by Charles River Editors ...

Narrated by Bill Caufield ...

Unabridged

2 hours 16 min

Uranium is best known for the destructive power of the atom bombs, which ushered in the nuclear era at the end of World War II, but given the effectiveness of nuclear power, nuclear power plants were constructed around the developed world during the second half of the 20th century. While nuclear power plants were previously not an option and thus opened the door to new, more efficient, and more ... Read more

$7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Uranium is best known for the destructive power of the atom bombs, which ushered in the nuclear era at the end of World War II, but given the effectiveness of nuclear power, nuclear power plants were constructed around the developed world during the second half of the 20th century. While nuclear power plants were previously not an option and thus opened the door to new, more efficient, and more
... Read more
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The Rising Sun

The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945

by John Toland ...

Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

Unabridged

41 hours 9 min

This Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, “a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened—muddled, ... Read more

$29.99 USD

This Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, “a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened—muddled,
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歡樂三國志【英雄重聚版有聲書（上）（下）】

by 侯文詠, 蔡康永 ...

Series series 歡樂三國志
Unabridged

41 hours 51 min

《三國演義》誰都可以出，但能「說」得這麼好聽，只有侯文詠與蔡康永！無數粉絲敲碗許願……＼有聲書終於上市！／＼走到哪聽到哪！／HowHow**：「我人生幾乎有一半以上的時間在聽《歡樂三國志》。」**博恩：「我小時候睡覺前都要聽《歡樂三國志》。」w如果呂布生在現代，絕對會成為「話題王子」？！w對現代人來說，和曹操這種愛才的老闆工作，肯定非常愉快！w諸葛亮若像我們一樣，必須在兩、三天內決定是否接下一份工作，他可能無法找到劉備這個對的老闆……那是一個遠比我們所處更動盪、更匱乏的時代。儘管如此，《三國演義》裡的角色擁有的夢想、努力的精神，卻遠比我們這個時代大部分人都還要精采。我們一再被某些角色... ... Read more

$25.99 USD

《三國演義》誰都可以出，但能「說」得這麼好聽，只有侯文詠與蔡康永！無數粉絲敲碗許願……＼有聲書終於上市！／＼走到哪聽到哪！／HowHow**：「我人生幾乎有一半以上的時間在聽《歡樂三國志》。」**博恩：「我小時候睡覺前都要聽《歡樂三國志》。」w如果呂布生在現代，絕對會成為「話題王子」？！w對現代人來說，和曹操這種愛才的老闆工作，肯定非常愉快！w諸葛亮若像我們一樣，必須在兩、三天內決定是否接下一份工作，他可能無法找到劉備這個對的老闆……那是一個遠比我們所處更動盪、更匱乏的時代。儘管如此，《三國演義》裡的角色擁有的夢想、努力的精神，卻遠比我們這個時代大部分人都還要精采。我們一再被某些角色...
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The Wall Dancers

Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet

by Yi-Ling Liu ...

Narrated by Jen Zhao ...

Unabridged

11 hours 25 min

**An eye-opening exploration of the Chinese internet that reveals the intricate dance between freedom and control in contemporary China“The Wall Dancers is history told in a gripping, novelistic style. It is at once a crash course in contemporary Chinese politics and culture and an epic story about human drive, desperation, and ingenuity against inordinate odds. Yi-Ling Liu has written a ... Read more

$23.99 USD

**An eye-opening exploration of the Chinese internet that reveals the intricate dance between freedom and control in contemporary China“The Wall Dancers is history told in a gripping, novelistic style. It is at once a crash course in contemporary Chinese politics and culture and an epic story about human drive, desperation, and ingenuity against inordinate odds. Yi-Ling Liu has written a
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Tombstone

The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962

by Yang Jisheng ...

Narrated by Nancy Wu ...

Unabridged

22 hours 52 min

The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great FamineAn estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster."As a ... Read more

$29.99 USD

The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great FamineAn estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster."As a
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The Zhivago Affair

The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book

by Peter Finn, Petra Couvée ...

Narrated by Simon Vance ...

Unabridged

9 hours 46 min

In May of 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country’s most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left concealing the original manuscript of Pasternak’s much anticipated first novel, entrusted to him with these words from the author: “This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.”Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in ... Read more

$24.99 USD

In May of 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country’s most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left concealing the original manuscript of Pasternak’s much anticipated first novel, entrusted to him with these words from the author: “This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.”Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in
... Read more
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Ghost Nation

The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival

by Chris Horton ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland ...

Unabridged

11 hours 9 min

**'Indispensable and timely' - Melissa Chan, Emmy-nominated international affairs correspondent'Few books qualify as essential reading but Ghost Nation is one of them' - Clive Hamilton, bestselling co-author of The Hidden HandThe gripping story of Taiwan's past and precarious present from one of Taiwan's top foreign correspondents.**With all eyes on Ukraine and the Middle East, Taiwan is emerging ... Read more

$20.12 USD

**'Indispensable and timely' - Melissa Chan, Emmy-nominated international affairs correspondent'Few books qualify as essential reading but Ghost Nation is one of them' - Clive Hamilton, bestselling co-author of The Hidden HandThe gripping story of Taiwan's past and precarious present from one of Taiwan's top foreign correspondents.**With all eyes on Ukraine and the Middle East, Taiwan is emerging
... Read more
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Gulag

A History

by Anne Applebaum ...

Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

Unabridged

27 hours 42 min

The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, ... Read more

$17.99 USD

The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution,
... Read more
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Flowers of Fire

The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

by Hawon Jung ...

Narrated by Kathleen Li ...

Unabridged

10 hours 53 min

Since the beginning of the #MeToo movement, tens of thousands of people in South Korea have taken to the street, and many more brave individuals took a stand, to end a decades-long abortion ban and bring down powerful men accused of sexual misconduct—including a popular presidential contender.Author Hawon Jung shows the world that these women are no delicate flowers—they are trailblazing flames. ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Since the beginning of the #MeToo movement, tens of thousands of people in South Korea have taken to the street, and many more brave individuals took a stand, to end a decades-long abortion ban and bring down powerful men accused of sexual misconduct—including a popular presidential contender.Author Hawon Jung shows the world that these women are no delicate flowers—they are trailblazing flames.
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The Loom of Time

Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China

by Robert D. Kaplan ...

Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

Unabridged

14 hours 49 min

**A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century“Engaging . . . Even those who resist Kaplan’s tragic sensibility have much to learn from his look at the emerging Middle East and its recent history.”—National ReviewFINALIST FOR THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB’S ... Read more

$25.99 USD

**A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century“Engaging . . . Even those who resist Kaplan’s tragic sensibility have much to learn from his look at the emerging Middle East and its recent history.”—National ReviewFINALIST FOR THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB’S
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Chernobyl

Details of the Worst Nuclear Disaster in History

by Kelly Mass ...

Narrated by Kelly Fraser ...

Unabridged

1 hour 14 min

On April 26, 1986, the world witnessed one of the gravest technological disasters in human history: the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. Occurring at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's No. 4 reactor in Pripyat, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the event not only claimed lives but also left a legacy of environmental and human suffering that persists to this day. This calamity ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

On April 26, 1986, the world witnessed one of the gravest technological disasters in human history: the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. Occurring at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's No. 4 reactor in Pripyat, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the event not only claimed lives but also left a legacy of environmental and human suffering that persists to this day. This calamity
... Read more
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Midnight in Chernobyl

The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

by Adam Higginbotham ...

Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

Unabridged

13 hours 55 min

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!A New York Times Best Book of the YearA Time Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner**From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that reads almost like the script for a mov... ... Read more

$29.99 USD

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!A New York Times Best Book of the YearA Time Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner**From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that reads almost like the script for a mov...
... Read more
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The Jakarta Method

Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

by Vincent Bevins ...

Narrated by Tim Paige ...

Unabridged

9 hours 58 min

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ“A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the worldIn 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians—eliminating the ... Read more

$27.99 USD

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ“A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the worldIn 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians—eliminating the
... Read more
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In Order to Live

A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

by Yeonmi Park ...

Narrated by Eji Kim ...

Unabridged

9 hours 38 min

**“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” —Yeonmi Park“One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard—and one of the most inspiring.” —The Bookseller**In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions ... Read more

$20.99 USD

**“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” —Yeonmi Park“One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard—and one of the most inspiring.” —The Bookseller**In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions
... Read more
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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1

An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ...

Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

Unabridged

25 hours 56 min

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” ... Read more

$52.99 USD

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.”
... Read more
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On Tyranny: Expanded Audio Edition

Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine

by Timothy Snyder ...

Narrated by Timothy Snyder ...

Unabridged

9 hours 45 min

The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times.This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author.In this exclusive audiobook edition, which includes eight hours of new content, Snyder combines the ... Read more

$15.99 USD

The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times.This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author.In this exclusive audiobook edition, which includes eight hours of new content, Snyder combines the
... Read more
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Red Notice

A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

by Bill Browder ...

Narrated by Adam Grupper ...

Unabridged

14 hours 7 min

November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes paid to the state by one of the world's most successful hedge funds. ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes paid to the state by one of the world's most successful hedge funds.
... Read more

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