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.
In Soviet Russia, a triple murder in Moscow amusement centre, Gorky Park, leaves three corpses frozen in the snow. But when Senior Investigator in the Moscow Prosecutor's Office Arkady Renko arrives, he finds that the brutal murder leaves the victims unidentifiable with faces and fingers missing. Renko must battle political and corporate corruption internationally, from the USSR to the USA, to uncover the truth - and he must fight for his own life in doing so. Meanwhile, he is falling in love with a beautiful, headstrong dissident for whom he may risk everything.
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.
Why is Pasha Ivanov - one of Russia's richest oligarchs - lying dead on the pavement outside his luxury high-rise apartment, his death an apparent open-and-shut suicide? Senior Investigator Arkady Renko has never been one to take evidence at face value and his investigations take him to the area around Chernobyl, deserted and forgotten.
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.
A blistering new Arkady Renko novel whose heroine - the courageous, enigmatic journalist Tatiana - is based on real-life journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Czy Tatiana Pietrowna, słynna i niewygodna dla Kremla dziennikarka śledcza,
sama wypadła z balonu swojego moskiewskiego mieszkania, czy ktoś jej w tym
pomógł? I jak to się ma do zaszyfrowanego notesu tłumacza uczestniczącego w
tajnych rozmowach handlowych? Arkadij Renko, moskiewski śledczy, uważa, że
Tatianę zamordowano. Wbrew przełożonemu na własną rękę prowadzi dochodzenie.
Pomaga mu zapijaczony, ale nieoceniony detektyw Wiktor Orłow oraz przybrany
syn Żenia. Ślady prowadzą do rosyjskiej stolicy zbrodni Kaliningradu.
Arkdij trafia tam w sam środek afery, w którą zamieszani są zarówno najwięksi
rosyjscy gangsterzy, jak i ludzie z najwyższych kręgów władzy.
