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Arkady Renko #6
Simon & Schuster
June 2007
On Sale: June 12, 2007
352 pages
ISBN: 0743276728
EAN: 9780743276726
Hardcover
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Thriller Police Procedural
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.
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