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Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel by Smith, Martin Cruz
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- ISBN
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- Book Title
- Tatiana : an Arkady Renko Novel
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Contemporary Women, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Thrillers / General, Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime, Mystery & Detective / General
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 11.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
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Martin Cruz Smith's "masterful" ( USA TODAY ) and "irresistible" ( People ) New York Times bestseller and Washington Post notable book of the year: Arkady Renko must connect the dots among a Russian journalist's mysterious death, corrupt politicians, murderous gangsters, and brazen bureaucrats. Arkady Renko, one of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, 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 , the melancholy hero unravels a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia itself. The reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire is shot and buried with the trappings due a lord. The trail leads to Kaliningrad, a Cold War "secret city" that is separated by hundreds of miles from the rest of Russia. The more Arkady delves into Tatiana's past, the more she leads him into a surreal world of wandering sand dunes, abandoned children, and a notebook written in the personal code of a dead translator. Finally, in a lethal race to uncover what the translator knew, Renko makes a startling discovery that draws him still deeper into Tatiana's past--and, paradoxically, into Russia's future, where bulletproof cars, poets, corruption of the Baltic Fleet, and a butcher for hire combine to give Kaliningrad the "distinction" of having the highest crime rate in Russia. More than a mystery, Tatiana is Martin Cruz Smith's most ambitious and politically daring novel since Gorky Park . It is a story rich in character, black humor, and romance, with an insight that is the hallmark of a writer The New York Times has called "endlessly entertaining and deeply serious...[not merely] our best writer of suspense, but of one of our best writers, period."
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1439140227
ISBN-13
9781439140222
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201571351
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tatiana : an Arkady Renko Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Thrillers / General, Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
8
Reviews
With gallows humor and a soulful mortality, Smith has conjured another irresistible adventure for one of crime fiction's great detectives., A New York Times Bestseller "Smith is that uncommon phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction. . . . Based, in part, on Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist and human rights activist . . . [ Tatiana ] is one of Smith's strongest . . . lending the narrative much of its moral and emotional substance. . . . Over the years, [Renko] has developed into one of the most appealing characters in crime fiction. . . . Perhaps most important, Tatiana showcases Smith's ability to convey the frustrating, frequently absurd nature of daily life in a fractured, tragic and traumatized country. Taken as a whole, the Arkady Renko series offers something unique in modern literature: an evolving vision of a complex society struggling, often futilely, to rise above the ruins of its own calamitous history.", It would be a treat to watch the evening news with Martin Cruz Smith's fabulist's eye and see current events colorized through Renko's dramatic filter. In Tatiana , Smith continues the tradition he began at the end of the Brezhnev era with Gorky Park , using Russia as his game board to make geopolitical conspiracy, well . . . fun. Tatiana ought to come with a decoder ring so readers who share the author's fondness for brainteasers can try to crack the translator's code on their own. Then again, struggling slowly from benighted dread into the glimmering dawn of fictional resolution is the reward of reading an Arkady Renko thriller. Figuring everything out too quickly would only spoil the game., Exquisite . . . Darkly romantic . . . Tatiana is as tight, vivid, and haunting as any of the other installments in Smith's consistently first-rate series., Absorbing . . . A gripping story with an ingenious twist and an interestingly complicated hero . . . Smith's Renko series stands out from the pack in several ways. For starters, Smith has a gift for creating sympathetic and believable characters that are miles ahead of the cardboard figures found in run-of-the-mill crime fiction. More profoundly, the books act as a kind of vivid timeline. We see, through both history and fiction, thirty years' worth of wrenching changes., Masterful . . . Renko is one of the most compelling characters in modern fiction, sarcastic, quietly heroic, humble, depressive yet with a romantic's eye of a future that could be. . . . Smith's writing conveys irony, social commentary and wry humor., With the recent death of the reigning master of the suspense novel, Elmore Leonard, to whom do we turn in the hopes of a masterly glide through dire straits in the dark side of life, with pitch-perfect dialogue, intriguing characters and a plot with punchy turns and a satisfying twist? My candidate would be California writer Martin Cruz Smith, creator of some two dozen works of popular fiction, whose series of novels starring the Russian police investigator Arkady Renko have been coming to us every now and then since Gorky Park first appeared in 1981. The latest is Tatiana , the eighth Renko novel and certainly one of the best.
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The Arkady Renko Novels Ser.
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