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The Black Suit
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 14 2024
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He didn't inherit the criminal underworld. He engineered it.
Kiev, the late 1980s. The Soviet Union is hemorrhaging-its ideology a corpse, its streets an open auction for whoever is ruthless enough to bid. Oleg Khanin is not a thug. He is a cold, precise intellectual who reads the city's collapsing shadow economy the way a surgeon reads an X-ray: locating every fracture, every weakness, every place a blade might enter cleanly.
He enters cleanly.
He commands an empire. His enforcers don't question orders-they've seen what happens to men who do. But a kingdom forged in blood is never truly finished being forged. A savage rival faction detonates the fragile peace with car bombs and daylight executions, turning Kiev's streets into a kill floor. Oleg answers every move with something colder than rage-calculation. He outmaneuvers, outbrutalizes, and outsurvives. His enemies learn to fear not his anger, but his silence.
The only warmth left in his life has a name: Viola. She loves the man who existed before the empire required his disappearance-and she watches that man recede with every order given, every body left behind, every piece of conscience traded for survival. She is not naive. She simply refuses to pretend that power and humanity can occupy the same man forever.
She may be right.
The war is escalating. The betrayals are closing in. And Oleg-architect of violence, philosopher of ruin-stands at the edge of the only choice that has ever truly frightened him. The throne demands everything. Viola demands the one thing the throne already consumed.
In this city, in this game, no one walks away with both.
Make your move.
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