Chingiz Abdullayev
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About
An Azerbaijani crime fiction writer, he is most famous for his Drongo detective books. Over the course of his career, he sold more than twenty million copies of his eighty plus novels and short stories.
Before Fame
He began working as a spy for the USSR Ministry of Defense during the early 1980s. A decade later, he earned a J.D. from Baku State University.
Trivia
He served as Secretary of the Union of Azerbaijani Writers.
Family Life
He and his wife raised a son and a daughter.
Associated With
The plot of his novel, Three Colors of Blood, had some similarities to the real-life execution attempt on President Heydar Aliyev.
