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Department. While there, serving as a Lieutenant of militsiya in the homicide division, he met the people who would later become the heroes of his future books. Kivinov went on to lead the homicide department, where he worked until 1998. He left the service with the rank of Major of militsiya.
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Estonia). This series achieved very high ratings, with one
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genre, although some of his novels do explore more lyrical and romantic themes. Some of his more popular works include, "Doomed Cop"("Ment
Obrechennii"), "The Trail of the Boomerang"("Sled Bumeranga"), "Die Cast"("Umirat Podano"), "High Voltage"("Visokoe Napriazhenie") and "Saucer Full of
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Gelding"("Chernii Merin") and "It's Hard to be Macho"("Trudno bit Macho"). In total, there are over 20 million copies of his books in circulation.
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