Martin Cruz Smith
1) Polar Star
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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...
2) Gorky Park
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A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and the New York City police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fur dealer. Meanwhile, Renko is falling in love...
3) Rose
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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...
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Arkady Renko novels volume 10
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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 boss has relegated him to a desk job. And he is having trouble with his dexterity and balance. A visit to his doctor reveals that these are symptoms for Parkinson's...
5) Parque Gorki
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Moscú, años ochenta. Los moscovitas carecen de libertad e intentan sobrevivir como pueden. La dirigencia, rica y corrupta, está decidida a erradicar cualquier clase de iniciativa individual. Arkady Renko es un investigador de la milicia moscovita, que se esfuerzapor hacer su trabajo a pesar de las intromisiones del KGB. La aparición de tres cadáveres, desfigurados y sin huellas dactilares, bajo la nieve del Parque Gorki supondrá un desafío...
6) Zona
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Inspektor Arkadij Renko, ulubiony bohater Martina Cruza Smitha znany między innymi z "Parku Gorkiego" powraca, by raz jeszcze zmierzyć się ze zbrodnią, tym razem w zdewastowanej strefie otaczającej pozostałości po najbardziej feralnej elektrowni atomowej XX wieku. Pasza Iwanow, przedstawiciel nowej rosyjskiej kasty superbogaczy, wypada z okna swojego ekskluzywnego mieszkania na dziesiątym piętrze moskiewskiego apartamentowca. Początkowo...
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Arkady Renko returns in a new mystery about crime and corruption in the cold, dark, impenetrable landscape of modern day Moscow.
The death of an elegant young woman whose body is found in a construction trailer on the perimeter of Moscow's main rail hub puts Investigator Arkady Renko's skills to the test.
9) Gorky Park
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"When three murder victims are discovered in Moscow's Gorky Park, their faces and fingertips removed, detective Arkady Renko is determined to identify the bodies and find the killer. But as a picture of the victims takes shape, the clues point toward involvement not only of the KGB but also of the woman he loves, Irina. Now, hunted by the secret police and confronted by an intricate web of deception and treachery reaching to the highest political...
11) Gorky Park
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When three murder victims are discovered in Moscow's Gorky Park their faces and fingertips removed detective Arkady Renko is determined to identify the bodies and find the killer. But when the clues point toward the involvement of the KGB, Renko is hunted by the secret police and confronted by an intricate web of deception and treachery reaching the highest political levels.