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Nikolai Returns
A Novel

Nikolai Returns Cover In 1920, a glittering Russian Orthodox monastery is dynamited by the Bolsheviks into piles of rubble. Years later, Nikolai Razkazov-Kolya-grows up in the shadow of the ruins. A veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the deadly Russian arms trade, Kolya learns that he and the old monastery share a special connection and that his life has a purpose, a dangerous purpose.

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"I'd not anticipated becoming attached and intrigued by the characters in this book, but the pages soon began to turn themselves and I could not disengage from the story or the depth of emotion evoked ..."

"I was impressed with the level of research the author took regarding the military aspects of the story. It reads like a Clancy novel during the Afgahanistan and organized crime sections of the book. I..."

"As a female reader, I was skeptical when a colleague recommended Nikolai Returns - a book about the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the subsequent Russian arms trade - to me. By the end of the first cha..."

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About Michael

michael tanner The author was born and raised in the United States and now lives in Florida. In the 1990s and 2000s his travels took him to Russia, Belarus, Estonia and Poland where he met many veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Their stories of courage and loss were the inspiration for Nikolai Returns. In 1998, the author visited the Korennaya monastery which at that time was in the early stages of rebuilding.
The author is now at work on his second novel, set in colonial America at the time of the American Revolution. Watch for it soon.

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