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Nikolay Ignatiev

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His debut novel, Blood and Caviar, a dark political thriller set in post-Soviet Russia, explores ambition, betrayal, and survival in a fractured era. The book reached ,#1 in Russian Historical Fiction,, earning strong early reader praise for its cinematic scope and emotional weight.

His second novel, Ghost Directive: The Price of Love, expands his thematic focus into post–Cold War Europe, examining power, ideology, and the human cost of systems designed to control the future. The novel continues Ignatiev’s interest in moral ambiguity, psychological depth, and historically grounded geopolitical tension.

Ignatiev’s work centers on the collapse of systems, the price of power, and the personal choices made in moments of political and moral uncert
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Nikolay Ignatiev Blood and Caviar isn’t a conventional thriller.
It doesn’t open with a car chase. No one’s defusing bombs. The tension doesn’t scream — it simmers.

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Blood and Caviar isn’t a conventional thriller.
It doesn’t open with a car chase. No one’s defusing bombs. The tension doesn’t scream — it simmers.

It’s a literary-political thriller set in post-Soviet Russia — where the real threat isn’t an assassin or a flash drive, but history itself.

The pacing is deliberate. The characters carry trauma. Dialogue is stripped down — the silences do as much damage as the bullets.

If you’re looking for airport-speed plot — this might not be your book.
But if you want to fall into a world built on betrayal, moral rot, and the slow, violent birth of a new empire — welcome.

This book has been called “Dostoyevsky meets Tarantino.” Some readers mean that as praise. One didn’t.

Either way — that description isn’t marketing. It’s warning.

If you still want in, you’re exactly who I wrote this for.
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"Earlier this year I read Blood and Caviar, Nikolay Ignatiev's first book and it was superb, so when I got this ARC, I was hoping it would be as good, it was, in fact it was even better.
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