This series follows the life and work of Arkady Renko, a chief homicide inspector in Moscow. It paints a gritty picture of post-Soviet Russia through compelling crime plots. Readers are drawn into intricate cases and political machinations that shape the characters' lives and the nation's destiny. This is immersive reading for fans of detective fiction and Russian literature.
In Soviet Russia, a triple murder in Moscow amusement centre, Gorky Park, leaves three corpses frozen in the snow. But when Senior Investigator in the Moscow Prosecutor's Office Arkady Renko arrives, he finds that the brutal murder leaves the victims unidentifiable with faces and fingers missing. Renko must battle political and corporate corruption internationally, from the USSR to the USA, to uncover the truth - and he must fight for his own life in doing so. Meanwhile, he is falling in love with a beautiful, headstrong dissident for whom he may risk everything.
Arkady Renko is exiled on Polar Star, a Soviet factory ship which trawls the freezing waters from Siberia to Alaska: current status seaman (second class), his movements shadowed by those who know his past. Then, Renko is given a chance to reclaim his freedom - by investigating a lonely and very mysterious death.
"Sharply, evocatively written and elaborately plotted...It should find as many friends as did GORKY PARK." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Back from exile, Arkady Reko returns to find that his country, his Moscow, even his job, are nearly dead. Not so his enemies. Hounded by the Russian mafia, chased by ruthless minions of the newly rich and powerful, and tempted by his great love, Arkady can only hope for escape. Fate, however, has other ideas.... A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A LITERARY GUILD MAIN SELECTION
Di nuovo a capo della squadra omicidi, Renko (protagonista di Gorky Park) torna a Mosca. Ma la città che trova è trasformata: morto il Partito Comunista, allo Stato e al Kgb si è sostituita una mafia efficientissima che controlla un gigantesco mercato nero. Nuovi signori sono i padrini delle diverse "famiglie", che estendono il loro potere sui vecchi apparati, hanno la loro zona d'influenza nella Germania riunificata, da Berlino a Monaco. La nuova indagine di Renko, muove dall'assassinio di un banchiere della mafia e ci conduce nelle pieghe più nascoste del nuovo capitalismo sovietico.
Why is Pasha Ivanov - one of Russia's richest oligarchs - lying dead on the pavement outside his luxury high-rise apartment, his death an apparent open-and-shut suicide? Senior Investigator Arkady Renko has never been one to take evidence at face value and his investigations take him to the area around Chernobyl, deserted and forgotten.
Detective Arkady Renko returns to his Moscow base in Martin Cruz Smith's exciting installment in the internationally bestselling series about Russian crimes, broken hearts, and the mysteries of the soul. 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 better than that of Renko, whose lover, Eva, has left him for Detective Nikolai Isakov, a charismatic veteran of the civil war in Chechnya, a hero of the far right and, Renko suspects, a killer for hire. The cases entwine, and Renko's quests become a personal inquiry fueled by jealousy. The investigation leads to the fields of Tver outside of Moscow, where once a million soldiers fought. There, amidst the detritus, Renko must confront the ghost of his own father, a favorite general of Stalin's. 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.
A blistering new Arkady Renko novel whose heroine - the courageous, enigmatic journalist Tatiana - is based on real-life journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Czy Tatiana Pietrowna, słynna i niewygodna dla Kremla dziennikarka śledcza,
sama wypadła z balonu swojego moskiewskiego mieszkania, czy ktoś jej w tym
pomógł? I jak to się ma do zaszyfrowanego notesu tłumacza uczestniczącego w
tajnych rozmowach handlowych? Arkadij Renko, moskiewski śledczy, uważa, że
Tatianę zamordowano. Wbrew przełożonemu na własną rękę prowadzi dochodzenie.
Pomaga mu zapijaczony, ale nieoceniony detektyw Wiktor Orłow oraz przybrany
syn Żenia. Ślady prowadzą do rosyjskiej stolicy zbrodni Kaliningradu.
Arkdij trafia tam w sam środek afery, w którą zamieszani są zarówno najwięksi
rosyjscy gangsterzy, jak i ludzie z najwyższych kręgów władzy.
