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The Siberia Job

by Josh Haven
Justin Price
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After the demise of the Soviet Union, the newly-established Russian government privatized its industry by issuing vouchers to all of its citizens, allowing them the chance to be shareholders in the country's burgeoning businesses. The slips are distributed among the population and auctions are arranged where they can be exchanged for actual shares. For the country's rural populations living in abject poverty, the vouchers appear to be little more than pieces of paper, totally separated from the far-off concept of potential future fortunes. But for Texas businessman John Mills and his Czech companion, Petr Kovac, the seemingly-valueless chits suggest a lucrative potential, worth much more than what the current owners are willing to sell them for. They travel to the furthest, coldest reaches of the country to acquire vouchers for the country's national oil company, Gazneft, roving from town to town with suitcases full of cash. But they quickly learn that the plan has complications-for example, the fact that the auctions at which these vouchers are traded for actual shares have been planned at the most remote, inaccessible locations possible to deter outsiders from buying in. And when the Russian mafia and the oligarchs in charge of Gazneft catch wind of their successes, the stakes become suddenly more deadly.

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  • Release date

    August 16, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781696611732
      • File size: 200418 KB
      • Duration: 06:57:32

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      Starred review from December 1, 2023

      Haven (Fake Money, Blue Smoke) explores the Wild West that was Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union in this masterly financial thriller. In the style of Michael Lewis, Havens introduces listeners to a pair of Western investors (a Texan and a Czech) traveling to the ends of Russia to buy vouchers from Russian citizens that they can use to purchase shares in the nation's newly privatized industries. The scheme, which costs the investors a few American dollars, could make big money--perhaps even tens of billions of dollars in profit. Texan businessman John Mills and Czech entrepreneur Petr Kovac face widespread and daily corruption, the Russian mafia, oligarchs, payoffs, rip-offs, kidnappings, and not a few pointed guns in this unputdownable thriller. Award-winning narrator Justin Price does a magnificent job with his many voices and solid use of Eastern European accents in this novel that's based on real people and events. VERDICT This outlandish, smart caper illuminates a little-known and intriguing chapter in post-Soviet Russian history. Recommended for readers of Matthew Klein's Con Ed or Eli Yance's Consequence.--Scott DiMarco

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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