Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel

Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel

In Tatiana, Martin Cruz Smith, â€œthe master of the international thrillerâ€ (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 Renkoâ€”cynical, analytical, and quietly subversiveâ€”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, Martin Cruz Smithâ€™s most ambitious novel since Gorky Park, the melancholy hero finds himself on the trail of a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia herself.

The fearless investigative reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire, Grisha Grigorenko, is shot and buried with the trappings due a lord. No one makes the connection, but Arkady is transfixed by the tapes he discovers of Tatianaâ€™s voice, even as she describes horrific crimes hidden by official versions.

The trail leads to Kaliningrad, a Cold War â€œsecret cityâ€ and home of the Baltic Fleet, separated by hundreds of miles from the rest of Russia. Arkady delves into Tatianaâ€™s past and a surreal world of wandering dunes and amber mines. His only link is a notebook written in the personal code of a translator whose body is found in the dunes. Arkadyâ€™s only hope of decoding the symbols lies in Zhenya, a teenage chess hustler.

More than a mystery, Tatiana is a story rich in character, black humor, and romance, with an insight that is the hallmark of Martin Cruz Smith.

Country	USA
Author	Martin Cruz Smith
Binding	Audio CD
EAN	9781442364363
Edition	Unabridged
ISBN	144236436X
Label	Simon & Schuster Audio
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster Audio
NumberOfItems	7
NumberOfPages	7
PublicationDate	2013-11-12
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Audio
ReleaseDate	2013-11-12
Studio	Simon & Schuster Audio

Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel

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