An American lawyer's propulsive true story of witnessing and playing a part in the transformation of Russia under Yeltsin and Putin. Jamison R. Firestone lived in the maelstrom, defending clients from mafia attacks and dealing with corrupt police, while employing Sergei Magnitsky and teaming up with Bill Browder and Alexei Navalny.

Darkly comic, sometimes horrifying and deeply moving, this real-life spy novel goes deep inside contemporary Russia and events that have reshaped the globe. It is a chilling warning of what can happen when a nascent democracy succumbs to one man's corrupt iron rule.