Esta serie sigue la vida y el trabajo de Arkady Renko, un inspector jefe de homicidios en Moscú. Pinta un crudo retrato de la Rusia postsoviética a través de tramas criminales cautivadoras. Los lectores se ven inmersos en casos intrincados y maquinaciones políticas que dan forma a las vidas de los personajes y al destino de la nación. Es una lectura inmersiva para los aficionados a la ficción de detectives y la literatura rusa.
A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and New York police as he performs the impossible--and tries to stay alive doing it.
Un magnífico thriller del galardonado autor considerado por la revista Time como el 'John le Carré estadounidense'.En las redes de un pesquero que faena en el mar de Bering aparece el cuerpo de una muchacha que pertenece a la tripulación del buque factoría soviético 'Estrella Polar'. A bordo de éste trabaja el marinero Arkady Renko, ex investigador de la oficina del fiscal de Moscú apartado de su cargo por «motivos políticos». A pesar de ello, el capitán del barco le pide que investigue la muerte de la muchacha. Pese al dictamen oficial de suicidio, Renko indaga por su cuenta…
In the summer of 1991, Arkady Renko has returned from exile and is back on the homicide squad in a newly democratic Moscow. When Arkady’s informant, Rudy Rosen, and his underworld bank-on-wheels are consumed in a ball of fire, Arkady finds himself in an investigation that points to the heart of Russia’s decaying infrastructure.
When the corpse of a Russian is hauled from the oily waters of Havana Bay, Arkady Renko comes to Cuba to identify the body. Looking for the killer, he discovers a city of faded loneliness, unexpected danger, and bewildering contradictions. His investigation introduces him to a beautiful Cuban policewoman; to the rituals of Santeria; to an American fugitive and a group of ruthless mercenaries. In this place where all things Russian are despised, where Hemingway fished and the KGB flourished, where the hint of music is always in the air, Arkady finds a trail of deceit that reaches halfway around the world–and a reason to relish his own life again.
Pasha Ivanov, uno de los nuevos multimillonarios de Rusia, está muerto: se ha suicidado –aparentemente– arrojándose desde el balcón de su ultramoderno apartamento de Moscú. Arkady Renko, el recordado detective de Parque Gorki, regresará para resolver su caso más enigmático. Los indicios lo conducirán hasta Chernóbil, un mundo radiactivo y fantasmal, en una historia llena de tensión.
Detective Arkady Renko returns to his Moscow base in Martin Cruz Smith's exciting installment in the internationally bestselling series about Russian crimes, broken hearts, and the mysteries of the soul. 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.
«Un tren de pasajeros cruza la noche a sacudidas. Una solitaria madre adolescente se dirige a Moscú buscando una nueva vida. Un soldado de corazón endurecido la observa furtivamente, pensando en sexo. Cuando el tren llega a destino, un bebé ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro.» Y Renko deberá resolver el enigma.Martin Cruz Smith es uno de los maestros indiscutibles del thriller internacional, avalado por la crítica más prestigiosa. Sus tramas, magistralmente ambientadas en Rusia, han seducido a los lectores más exigentes de novela negra.'Las tres estaciones' está protagonizado, al igual que 'Parque Gorki', por el célebre detective Arkady Renko y ambientada en la turbulenta Moscú de nuestros días.
A blistering new Arkady Renko novel whose heroine - the courageous, enigmatic journalist Tatiana - is based on real-life journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
From the 'master of the international thriller' (New York Times), comes a new Arkady Renko novel.
