Sergey Maidukov
Sergey Maidukov is a Ukrainian writer who has sold tens of thousands of copies of his published books in the countries of the former USSR, such as Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and the Baltics. Widely recognized in Western Europe for his intimate knowledge of the criminal world, he worked for twenty-two years as a commissioned writer for the largest publishing houses in Ukraine. His first book for Rowman & Littlefield, Life on the Run, received praise in the esteemed Kirkus Reviews, and Marcel H. Van Herpen, a security specialist in the post-Soviet states, endorsed it as well. Maidukov's political articles have been published in various US magazines, including Newsweek.