By Martin Cruz Smith
Martin Cruz Smith's “masterful” (USA TODAY) and “irresistible” (People) New York Times bestseller and Washington Post impressive publication of the yr: Arkady Renko needs to attach the dots between a Russian journalist’s mysterious demise, corrupt politicians, murderous gangsters, and brazen bureaucrats.
Arkady Renko, one of many iconic investigators of latest fiction, has survived the cultural trip from the Soviet Union to the recent Russia, basically to discover the state as enthusiastic about secrecy and brutality as used to be the outdated Communist dictatorship. In Tatiana, the depression hero unravels a secret as complicated and hazardous as smooth Russia itself.
The reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her demise from a sixth-floor window in Moscow an analogous week mob billionaire is shot and buried with the trimmings due a lord. the path results in Kaliningrad, a chilly battle “secret urban” that's separated by means of hundreds and hundreds of miles from the remainder of Russia. The extra Arkady delves into Tatiana’s previous, the extra she leads him right into a surreal global of wandering sand dunes, deserted young children, and a pc written within the own code of a useless translator. ultimately, in a deadly race to discover what the translator knew, Renko makes a startling discovery that pulls him nonetheless deeper into Tatiana’s past—and, mockingly, into Russia’s destiny, the place bulletproof vehicles, poets, corruption of the Baltic Fleet, and a butcher for lease mix to offer Kaliningrad the “distinction” of getting the top crime expense in Russia.
More than a secret, Tatiana is Martin Cruz Smith’s such a lot bold and politically bold novel seeing that Gorky Park. it's a tale wealthy in personality, black humor, and romance, with an perception that's the hallmark of a author The New York Times has referred to as “endlessly exciting and deeply serious…[not basically] our greatest author of suspense, yet of 1 of our greatest writers, period.”