When Browder found himself on assignment in Poland, where the government had begun privatizing state-owned companies and selling their shares at ridiculously low valuations he said it was his light-bulb moment. “I now knew exactly what I wanted to do with my life,” he wrote. Besides working for the disgraced financier Robert Maxwell and the highflying Salomon Brothers, this manipulator does not say anything new, either truthful or relevant.

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