What does the suicide of an investigative reporter, the
murder of a mafia kingpin and a missing translator have in common? Arkady Renko
feels they are connected somehow and sets off to solve the mystery. His one
clue is a notebook written in a personal code by the missing translator. His
investigation takes him the city of Kaliningrad, a small piece of Russian
territory isolated from the country between Estonia and Poland. It leads him to something bigger than he imagined.
In this novel, Martin Cruz Smith continues the saga of
Arkady Renko and introduces us to a little known part of Russia. In reading
this series and having spent time in Russia, I can attest that he captures the
mood of Russian life with its tones of hopelessness very well. You can almost smell the boiled cabbage and potatoes and vodka.
1 comment:
I haven't read Smith for a long time, maybe it's time for a re-visit!
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