For the Elder

Shamil Idiatullin — a prose writer and journalist, twice winner of the "Big Book" award — a master of various genres: author of realistic novels "City of Brezhnev" and "Former Lenin", thrillers "Ubyr" and "Until February", ethno-fantasy "Last Time", the... novel "Return of the 'Pioneer'" and the collection "Everything is Like People" (the last two — pure fantasy).

An employee of the Foreign Intelligence Service must urgently find data on the latest American technology.
A manager of the company working on this technology must urgently receive an order from the Pentagon.
The owner of a Russian military factory developing similar technology must go to jail for a murder he did not commit.
The friend of the victim, an officer of the Investigative Committee, must find the real criminals.
And help for everyone who must come can only be provided by one person. Who, in principle, does not exist. And who no one seems to owe anything to. Until he became the elder.


"Shamil Idiatullin is now our domestic John le Carré — and that is great news."
Konstantin Milchin

"Knot by knot, Shamil Idiatullin weaves his colorful and complex carpet, and until the very end, it is unclear what it will be like."
Sergey Kostin, writer and screenwriter,
author of the "Paco Arraiya" series,
consultant for the series "The Americans"

"Idiattulin managed to write, and very well, not just a spy thriller with a superhero, but — a witty and honest book about the fact that, generally speaking, it is not good to sell the country piece by piece, because the country is a continuation of you, your family, your kind. And to trade in a family — is a sin worse than any of the biblical ones."
"Izvestia"



3 reasons to buy this book
1. A well-written spy procedural — a rare beast in the fields of domestic modern prose. But the author managed to shake the canon into a psychological thriller about life in an ordinary Russian town. 2. Dense, figurative, rich with quotes, the author's voice — the business card of Shamil Idiatullin, making any of his texts recognizable but difficult to imitate. 3. An energetic and intricately constructed social-criminal novel about family values.