Arkady Renko novels
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1) Gorky Park
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Arkady Renko novels volume 1
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Chief Homicide Investigator Arkady Renko's investigation of three mutilated bodies reaches to the highest levels of the Communist hierarchy.
2) Polar Star
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Arkady Renko novels volume 2
Pub. Date
1989.
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Tale of a Soviet factory ship in Bering Sea. The last net of fish brings up the body of a woman missing from the ship. Takes place from the Bering Sea to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, to the Arctic.
3) Red Square
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Arkady Renko novels volume 3
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With the fall of Soviet Communism, Inspector Arkady Renko returns from exile to a radically different Moscow and discovers that he must tangle with a terrifying new Russian underworld
4) Havana Bay
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Arkady Renko novels volume 4
Pub. Date
c1999
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In this fourth book in Martin Cruz Smith's splendid series, an amiable Irish American gangster explains to Arkady Renko what he and the other 84 wanted Americans hiding out in Cuba do with themselves. "We try to stay alive. Useful. Tell me, Arkady, what are you doing here?" "The same," says Renko--and it's true. His life as a Russian cop has become so bleak and lonely that he takes any opportunity to shake things up, even spending his own savings...
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Arkady Renko novels volume 5
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"Arkady Renko returns for his most enigmatic and baffling case: the death of one of Russia's new billionaires, which leads him to the Zone of Exclusion - Chernobyl and the surrounding areas closed to the world since the nuclear disaster of April 1986. In Wolves Eat Dogs, Renko enters the privileged world of Russia's new billionaire class. The grandest of them all, a self-made powerhouse named Pasha Ivanov, has apparently leapt to his death from the...
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Arkady Renko novels volume 6
Pub. Date
[2007]
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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. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking, for among many Russians Stalin is again popular; the bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval rating. Decidedly...
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Arkady Renko novels volume 7
Pub. Date
[2010]
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Struggling with a prosecutor's refusal to send work his way, investigator Arkady Renko of Moscow finds his efforts to watch out for teen chess prodity Zhenya challenged by a case involving a kidnapped baby, a dead prostitute, and police corruption.
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Arkady Renko novels volume 8
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"In Tatiana, Martin Cruz Smith, 'the master of the international thriller' (The New York Times) creates the most compelling heroine of his career and the most realistic, damning portrait of modern Russia in contemporary literature. One of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko -- cynnical, analytical, and quietly subversive -- has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find the nation...
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"The choie is simple for Arkady Renko: plunge into the black and limitless Siberian forest in search of a woman who seems to have scorned him or stay in Moscow working as a senior investigator for the office of the prosecution. Tatiana Petrovna, a well-known journalist, had set out to write an exposé on the oligarchs of Siberia, but she has not returned. Arkady pursues her into Siberia, where he learns that she has fallen under the spell of Mikhail...
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Arkady Renko novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Detective Arkaday Renko risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion to find an anti-Putin activist who has mysteriously disappeared. It's June 2021, and Arkady knows that Russia is preparing to invade and subsequently annex Ukraine as it did Crimea in 2014. He is, however, preoccupied with other grievances. His longtime lover, Tatiana Petrovna, has deserted him for her work as an investigative reporter. His corrupt...