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Tatiana

Tatiana

by Martin Cruz Smith
Hardback
Publication Date: 12/11/2013

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"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER Arkady Renko, one of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find the nation as obsessed with secrecy and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. In "Tatiana," the melancholy hero cynical, analytical, and quietly subversive unravels a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia itself. The fearless reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire, Grisha Grigo-renko, is shot and buried with the trappings due a lord. No one else makes the connection, but Arkady is transfixed by the tapes he discovers of Tatiana s voice describing horrific crimes in words that are at odds with the Kremlin s official versions. The trail leads to Kaliningrad, a Cold War secret city that is separated by hundreds of miles from the rest of Russia. The more Arkady delves into Tatiana s past, the more she leads him into a surreal world of wandering sand dunes, abandoned children, and a notebook written in the personal code of a dead translator. Finally, in a lethal race to uncover what the translator knew, Arkady makes a startling discovery that draws him still deeper into Tatiana s past and, paradoxically, into Russia s future, where bulletproof cars, poets, corruption of the Baltic Fleet, and a butcher for hire combine to give Kaliningrad the distinction of having the highest crime rate in Russia. More than a mystery, "Tatiana" is Martin Cruz Smith s most ambitious and politically daring novel since "Gorky Park." It is a story rich in character, black humor, and romance, with an insight that is the hallmark of a writer the "New York Times" has called endlessly entertaining and deeply serious . . . [not merely] our best writer of suspense, but one of our best writers, period. "
ISBN:
9781439140215
9781439140215
Category:
Crime & Mystery
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
12-11-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
292
Dimensions (mm):
231x163x30mm
Weight:
0.57kg
Martin Cruz Smith

Martin Cruz Smith is the bestselling author of thirteen novels, including the Arkady Renko thrillers: Gorky Park, Polar Star, Red Square, Havana Bay, Wolves Eat Dogs, Stalin's Ghost and Three Stations.

A recipient of the CWA Gold Dagger award for fiction in the UK, he is also two-time winner of the Hammett Prize in the United States. He lives in northern California with his wife and three children.

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