The Siberia Job

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.