Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel

Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel

Martin Cruz Smithâ€™s â€œmasterfulâ€ (USA TODAY) and â€œirresistibleâ€ (People) New York Times bestseller and Washington Post notable book of the year is now available from Encore for a great value! Arkady Renko must connect the dots among a Russian journalistâ€™s mysterious death, corrupt politicians, murderous gangsters, and brazen bureaucrats.

Arkady Renko, one of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, 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, the melancholy hero unravels a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia itself.

The reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire is shot and buried with the trappings due a lord. The trail leads to Kaliningrad, a Cold War â€œsecret cityâ€ that is separated by hundreds of miles from the rest of Russia. The more Arkady delves into Tatianaâ€™s past, the more she leads him into a surreal world of wandering sand dunes, abandoned children, and a notebook written in the personal code of a dead translator. Finally, in a lethal race to uncover what the translator knew, Renko makes a startling discovery that draws him still deeper into Tatianaâ€™s pastâ€”and, paradoxically, into Russiaâ€™s future, where bulletproof cars, poets, corruption of the Baltic Fleet, and a butcher for hire combine to give Kaliningrad the â€œdistinctionâ€ of having the highest crime rate in Russia.

More than a mystery, Tatiana is Martin Cruz Smithâ€™s most ambitious and politically daring novel since Gorky Park. It is a story rich in character, black humor, and romance, with an insight that is the hallmark of a writer The New York Times has called â€œendlessly entertaining and deeply seriousâ€¦[not merely] our best writer of suspense, but of one of our best writers, period.â€

Country	USA
Author	Martin Cruz Smith
Binding	Audio CD
Brand	Smith, Martin Cruz/ Strozier, Henry (NRT)
EAN	9781442388154
Edition	Unabridged
ISBN	1442388153
Label	Simon & Schuster Audio
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster Audio
NumberOfItems	7
PublicationDate	2015-02-03
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Audio
ReleaseDate	2015-02-03
Studio	Simon & Schuster Audio

Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel

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