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Usurpers: Crime Novel

by Stanislav Dymov

410 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-2215; ISBN 1-4120-4407-3; US$30.50, C$38.00, EUR24.70, £17.12

Gang figures and state authorities, bloody money and steamy love scenes, villains and decency are combined in a crime novel by Stanislav Dymov.

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About the Book

Gang figures and state authorities, bloody money and steamy love scenes, rascality and decency - all these get mixed up horribly in a crime novel by Stanislav Dymov. But the most terrible thing is that just a scintilla of fancy may be found in the narrative. On the whole it is our real life of recent years, and any reader may easily find own reflection in this honest book.

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About the Author

Stanislav Dymov was born on the ancient soil of Pskov in Russia. He was brought up in a family of a teacher. His way of thinking and moral principles were implanted in his mind with parental blood, and were also engrafted by his mum and his nanny. On his earnest conviction, a lot of things were cultivated in him by his teachers in a high school of the city of Pskov, and by his instructors of a military school and military academies. In a military school he started writing his diaries. In some time the diaries became the groundwork of his novel "My Love". The author showed the love of a simple chappie for his mum, for his country, for a woman, for his favourite profession, for common people, he showed the real love of life. At his mature age he made his final decision about his future and continued to write novels, showing the truth of life on the former USSR territory. Besides, in his social and political journalism he anatomized the reasons why for millennia on the unique land rich in resources peoples of the former Soviet Union lived in poverty, lacking culture, lawlessness, irrespective of a political system. The famous Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn set him up in literature. He read some books by Stanislav Dymov, and recommended him to continue his writing. Recently in Estonia the publishing house "Fogot" has printed the electronic versions of three books by Stanislav Dymov. And in the Ukraine they published, as a standard format, a collection of satiric stories "Odessa's Gimmickry", a crime novel "Usurpers", a public work "Offence for Power". Presently they prepare for publishing his trilogy "People and Beasts ", a novel "Dash at the Tsar", a blood-and-guts thriller "Dregs in Dubrovka" (the author showed the people's psychological drama in the captured theatre during the musical "Nord-Ost", two collections of his satiric stories about modern life in Ukraine and Russia, the second volume of "Usurpers", a novel "Sisters" and many other works.

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