Martin Cruz Smith
1) Polar Star
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Arkady Renko novels volume 2
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English
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He made too many enemies. He lost his party membership. Once Moscow’s top criminal investigator, Arkady Renko now toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship working with American trawlers in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when an adventurous female crew member is picked up dead with the day’s catch, Renko is ordered by his captain to investigate an accident that has all the marks of murder. Up against the celebrated Soviet bureaucracy...
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Arkady Renko novels volume 4
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English
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When the corpse of a Russian is hauled from the oily waters of Havana Bay, Arkady Renko comes to Cuba to identify the body. Looking for the killer, he discovers a city of faded loneliness, unexpected danger, and bewildering contradictions. His investigation introduces him to a beautiful Cuban policewoman; to the rituals of Santeria; to an American fugitive and a group of ruthless mercenaries. In this place where all things Russian are despised, where...
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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This is a novel about the most important ten seconds in history.
Stallion Gate, a magnificent successor to Gorky Park, is a powerful sensual idyll, a blend of love and betrayal, of humor and cultures in collision, of jazz and war.
In a New Mexico blizzard, four men cross a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate to select the test site for the first automatic weapon. They are Oppenheimer, the physicist; Groves, the general;...
Stallion Gate, a magnificent successor to Gorky Park, is a powerful sensual idyll, a blend of love and betrayal, of humor and cultures in collision, of jazz and war.
In a New Mexico blizzard, four men cross a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate to select the test site for the first automatic weapon. They are Oppenheimer, the physicist; Groves, the general;...
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Rose is a wonderfully rich and intricate novel set in nineteenth-century Wigan, a town located in the coal country of Lancashire. Its protagonist, Jonathan Blair, is a mining engineer who has been chased out of Africa for "stealing" from the missionaries' Bible Fund in order to pay off the porter of his expedition into the interior of the Gold Coast; he is now down and out in London.
Blair's employer, Bishop Hannay, promises...
Blair's employer, Bishop Hannay, promises...
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 3
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Sharply, evocatively written and elaborately plotted . . . [Red Square] should find as many friends as did Gorky Park.”—The Washington Post Book World
Back from exile in the hellish reaches of the Soviet Union, homicide investigator Arkady Renko discovers that his country, his Moscow, even his job, are nearly dead. But...
Back from exile in the hellish reaches of the Soviet Union, homicide investigator Arkady Renko discovers that his country, his Moscow, even his job, are nearly dead. But...
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Arkady Renko novels volume 1
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English
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The three murders in a Moscow park are in Investigator Renko's beat. The case looked straightforward enough, but takes a sharp turn with the arrival of the KGB.
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English
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"In Tatiana, Smith delivers his most ambitious and politically daring novel since Gorky Park. When the brilliant and fearless young reporter Tatiana Petrovna--based on the real-life journalist Anna Politkovskaya--falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow in the same week that notorious mob billionaire Grisha Grigorenko is shot in the back of the head, Renko finds himself on the trail of a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Journalist Tatiana Petrovna is on the move. Arkady Renko, iconic Moscow investigator and Tatianas part-time lover, hasnt seen her since she left on assignment over a month ago. When she doesnt arrive on her scheduled train, hes positive something is wrong. No one else thinks Renko should be worriedTatiana is known to disappear during deep assignmentsbut he knows her enemies all too well and the criminal lengths theyll go to keep her quiet.Renko embarks...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Detective Arkaday Renko-"one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction" (USA TODAY)-risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion to find an anti-Putin activist who has mysteriously disappeared. Martin Cruz Smith has written nine previous novels featuring Arkady Renko, one of modern detective fiction's most popular characters. These novels, beginning with 1981's international sensation Gorky Park, have collectively...
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[2016]
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English
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"The highly anticipated new standalone novel from Martin Cruz Smith, whom The Washington Post has declared "that uncommon phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction," The Girl from Venice is a suspenseful World War II love story set against the beauty, mystery, and danger of occupied Venice. Venice, 1945. The war may be waning, but the city known as La Serenissima is still occupied and the people...
14) Polar star
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
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Arkady Renko works aboard the Polar Star where he hopes to hide in anonymity when a pretty young crew member floats up dead. Renko is caught up again in a perilous investigation to expose the identity of a killer.
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 5
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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The grandest of them all, a self-made powerhouse named Pasha Ivanov, has apparently leapt to his death from the palatial splendor of his posh, ultra-modern Moscow condominium. While there are no signs pointing to homicide, there is one troubling and puzzling bit of evidence: in Ivanov's bedroom closet, there's a mountain of salt
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
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Sixteen stories on the craft of espionage and the sort of people it attracts. The stories range from Ambrose Bierce's The Story of Conscience, a meeting of enemies during the Civil War, to Jose Latour's Golam, on a Jewish agent's rancor at receiving no recognition for his work.