Įnjoyable read, couldn't put this book down before it was finished. Rise of an Oligarch is the book that oligarchs do not want you to read.Įnjoyable read, couldn't put this book down before it. Packed with remarkable characters and exotic scenes, humorous and philosophical at times, Rise of an Oligarch is a thriller set against the background of a young Ukrainian state striving to embrace capitalist democracy. The mighty adversaries will stop at nothing.Ĭonspiracies, old scores, powerful enemies and the blurred lines between decency and corruption all surface. Meanwhile, his partners, in a quest to discover who is behind the attack, stumble upon a conspiracy that, if realised, would change the world order.

And the higher Mikhail climbs the wider is the circle of enemies that want him dead. He has done it all: racketeering protection, drug trafficking, arms dealing, raiding privatised factories, dodgy infrastructure projects and money laundering.Īspiring to get legit he moves to London, but behind his new pretended façade nothing really changes. Laying in a hospital bed, Mikhail’s uncensored life story from a poor Jewish boy in communist USSR to disgustingly rich businessman in independent Ukraine, full of corruption, scheming, sex, drugs and violence, flashes in his mind’s eye. When Ukrainian oligarch Mikhail Vorotavich is close to achieving his ambition of topping the Forbes rich list, an assassination attempt leaves him in a coma and his vast business empire rapidly descends into turmoil.

Rise of an Oligarch by Carlito Sofer