In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created one of the iconic
investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko. In Tatiana, Smith
delivers his most ambitious and politically daring novel since. When the
brilliant and fearless young reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from
a sixth-floor window in Moscow in the same week that notorious mob billionaire
Grisha Grigorenko is shot in the back of the head, Renko finds himself on the
trail of a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia itself. The body
of an elite government translator shows up on the sand dunes of Kalingrad:
killed for nothing but a cryptic notebook filled with symbols. A frantic hunt
begins to locate and decipher this notebook. In a fast-changing and lethal
race to uncover what this translator knew, and how he planned to reveal it to
the world, Renko makes a startling discovery that propels him deeper into
Tatiana's past - and, at the same time, paradoxically, into Russia's future.
In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created one of the iconic
investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko. In Tatiana, Smith
delivers his most ambitious and politically daring novel since. When the
brilliant and fearless young reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from
a sixth-floor window in Moscow in the same week that notorious mob billionaire
Grisha Grigorenko is shot in the back of the head, Renko finds himself on the
trail of a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia itself. The body
of an elite government translator shows up on the sand dunes of Kalingrad:
killed for nothing but a cryptic notebook filled with symbols. A frantic hunt
begins to locate and decipher this notebook. In a fast-changing and lethal
race to uncover what this translator knew, and how he planned to reveal it to
the world, Renko makes a startling discovery that propels him deeper into
Tatiana's past - and, at the same time, paradoxically, into Russia's future.
