The book on my table is The Igor Plan For The Disintegration Of The United States by Emeka Nnolim.
The 362-page novel was published in 2025 by Adoption House Publishing, Umuahia in Abia State, and the publishing house also has offices in Canada and the United Kingdom.
The author of The Igor Plan, Emeka Nnolim, reminds me of the bestselling authors I read in the past such as Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal), Robert Ludlum (The Bourne Identity), Sidney Sheldon (The Other Side of Midnight), Harold Robbins (The Carpetbaggers), Jeffery Archer (Kane and Abel) etc.
With the new nervous reality of modern day United States after the advent of President Donald Trump, a book like Emeka Nnolim’s The Igor Plan is indeed prescient. No less a magazine than Time once put on its cover a photograph of Donald Trump with the caption “President of the Divided States of America”.
Emeka Nnolim is steeped in the thriller tradition of conflict, suspense and action in The Igor Plan – he weaves a tale that hooks the reader from the first page with these words: “The long awaited victory of the then Soviet Union now Russian Federation over the United States of America has been won without firing a shot.”
Every arrested reader is wont to ask: “Whodunnit?” There are multiform characters in The Igor Plan, interspersing Russia, United States, Britain, Germany, China, Iran, Portugal, Afghanistan, Turkey, Angola and the incognito nation called Nagori etc.
History and current affairs are ready smithies in the nous of Emeka Nnolim in the depiction of the diverse lives peopling The Igor Plan.
Colonel Dmitriy Morosov – later General Morozov – is at the heart of the plot, but it is the eponymous protagonist, Igor Mayakovski, who draws the plan.
Igor whose parents are professors and members of the Russian Academy of Science is a “nerd by all possible descriptions” until he becomes smitten by the beautiful Natasha who “grew up in one of the tough neighbourhoods of Moscow”.
The many dimensions of The Igor Plan by Emeka Nnolim cannot be detailed out in a short review such as this but it suffices to stress that there are plenteous astonishment and wonder such as reading about the sudden appearance of “Barrister Ebere Uzoatu, the well seasoned legal practitioner.”
The Igor plan for the disintegration of the United States works out in stages thusly: making Americans lose faith in their democracy and the right to vote; destabilizing the American economy by creating an alternative financial system than the dollar; igniting crises within the United States by making Americans not to feel safe in malls, movie theatres, streets, parks and sundry public spaces etc.
It makes for rousing reading as “Igor and his digital soldiers weaved the delicate embroidery of their cyber attacks on critical American infrastructure.”
Amid the dogged conflict, “the United States propaganda machine revved up several notches but was effectively neutralized by the army of core and social pundits sponsored by Igor pushing out discordant opinions to further polarize America to send her on an irredeemable course of self destruction.”
In the words of General Morozov, “the United States is an empire. It will, like empires before it not collapse overnight but in faltering steps.”
It amounts to bad manners revealing the twist at the end of the tale whilst reviewing a thriller like The Igor Plan by Emeka Nnolim.
Let’s end with the last words of the book: “Stepping out into the cold December evening in a daze, Igor’s brisk steps took him to a niche shop. There, he purchased an expensive bouquet of flowers. This bouquet was destined for one person and with a satisfied smile on his face walked back to his chauffeur who drove him to the waiting arms of Natasha sure of his young family’s safety.”
The Igor Plan by Emeka Nnolim is indeed a “must read for connoisseurs of national and international events.”
