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Sinopsis

Between July 1998 and February 2000, a fifteen-member criminal syndicate terrorized Almaty, Kazakhstan, committing twenty-nine murders across the city's informal sex-work corridors and the rural clearings of the surrounding districts. Led by Alexander Suvorov - a career recidivist known by the underworld alias Borman - the gang combined organized prostitution, armed robbery, and systematic sadomasochistic torture into a predatory enterprise that operated for eighteen months before law enforcement recognized it as a serial series at all.

Borman is the full account of one of the most unusual and devastating criminal cases in post-Soviet history. It traces the gang's formation in the ruins of the Soviet planned economy, the Afghan heroin trade that reorganized its members' physiology and criminal economy, and the institutional failures of a fragmented law enforcement apparatus that allowed twenty-nine people to die before a single arrest was made on homicide charges. It examines, with unflinching analytical precision, the psychology of collective predation, the gendered dynamics of a mixed-membership killing organization, and the specific vulnerability of the marginalized women who became its targets.

Drawing on the case's thirteen-volume evidentiary docket and the investigative record of Operation Nekhristi, this is narrative nonfiction at its most searching - a study of violence, institutional failure, and the human cost of a society in collapse.

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Acerca del autor

Riocard Riordon-Kelly grew up in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland, where an early fascination with the darker currents of modern history sent him deep into the archives of post-Soviet transition - the extraordinary decade in which the world's largest empire dissolved and left behind nations, economies, and human lives in conditions of acute precariousness. His particular interest lies in the criminological history of the former Soviet space: the way that institutional collapse, narcotics economies, and social disruption combined to produce forms of criminal organization that no existing framework had been built to understand. He lives between Ireland and Central Europe and has spent years researching the specific conditions of Kazakhstan's transition decade. Borman is his most forensically demanding work to date.

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