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Tatiana : an Arkady Renko novel

Title: Tatiana : an Arkady Renko novel / Martin Cruz Smith.
Author: Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942-
Publication: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.

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Description

292 pages : map; 24 cm

Summary

"In Tatiana, Martin Cruz Smith, 'the master of the international thriller' (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 Renko -- cynnical, analytical, and quietly subversive -- 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 Smith'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 Tatiana's voice, even as she describes horrific crimes hidden by official versions. The trail leads to Kaliningrad, a Cold War "secret city" and home of the Baltic Fleet, separated by hundreds of miles from the rest of Russia. Arkady delves into Tatiana'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. Arkady'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" --

Subjects

Genre/Form

Detective and mystery fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)

Note

Map on lining papers.

Call Number

JFE 14-1181

ISBN

9781439140215
1439140219

LCCN

2013026426

OCLC

2013026426

Author

Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942-

Title

Tatiana : an Arkady Renko novel / Martin Cruz Smith.

Publisher

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.

Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JFE 14-1181

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