Stalin's Ghost: An Arkady Renko Novel (Arkady Renko Series Book 6)
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (635 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000QRIHA2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 425 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Appreciated for the local color Mr. Joe "Applause broke out as Surkov turned up the volume and let the high tide of adulation pour from the gramophone. Arkady said nothing because Tanya had slipped a garrote around his neck and pulled it tight." - from STALIN'S GHOSTI haven't been an avid follower of Arkady Renko's career as a Moscow police investigator. STALIN'S GHOST is the. Amazon Customer said Stalin's Ghost Comes Alive. Martin Cruz Smith (hereafter MCS) has given us another Arkady Renko novel in the best sense of the word--new, original, fresh. And again he takes readers where they've never been before, something MCS has been doing brilliantly for quite a few years now.Fans of Arkady Renko know him as a Russian police investigator who bucks the system . Modern Russia v. Arkady Ava Taylor Arkady still fights very bad guys while trying to help resolve slowly slipping, losing causes. And he is still, in his traditional Russian way, a man of many sorrows. While the book fictionalizes some real & very concerning crime headlines regarding poisonings & whistle-blowers' deaths, it develops intriguing twists that ironically chal
Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro station. In these barren fields, patriots and shady entrepreneurs -- the Red Diggers and Black Diggers -- collect the bones, weapons and personal effects of slain World War II soldiers, and find that even among the dead there are surprises.. The cases entwine, and Renko's quests become a personal inquiry fueled by jealousy. Decidedly better than that of Renko, w
This masterful suspense novel casts a searing light on contemporary Russia. Renko must also look into reports that the ghost of Stalin has begun appearing on subway platforms and why several bodies of Black Berets who served in Chechnya with Isakov have turned up in the morgue. Despite repeated threats to his life, Renko stubbornly perseveres, seeking justice in a land that has no official notion of that concept. From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Moscow-based Senior Investigator Arkady Renko, in his outstanding sixth outing (after Wolves Eat Dogs), investigates a murder-for-hire scheme that leads him to suspect two fellow police detectives, Nikolai Isakov and Marat Urman, both former members of Russia's elite Black Berets, who served in Chechnya. All rights reserved. (June)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Isakov, a w