Red Notice

Easy enough reading. Unfolds like a step by step through every moment from the beginning (in curious detail at times), but maybe a bit too far back in the journey/story since the main conflict and intrigue doesn't even seem to come about to until about 150 pages in.  Felt a bit self-serving and heavy-handed at times as the author talks about all of his wild success and accomplishment, but also takes until after halfway through to even get to where things begin to escalate and get interesting. Some of the events seem so outrageous and far-fetched and it seems a bit odd that a random, run-of-the-mill businessman from Yonkers NY would end up on a foreign President's radar, yet the story seems to be a tale of truth despite the conspiratorial nature of it. And while it is pretty remarkable the way things took shape afterwards back in Washington, it's also somewhat surprising that this is such and unknown story.