Martin Cruz Smith je americký autor známy svojimi napínavými thrillermi. Jeho diela často skúmajú zložitosti medzinárodnej politiky a ľudskej povahy prostredníctvom pútavých detektívnych príbehov. Smith sa preslávil najmä svojou sériou s moskovským vyšetrovateľom Arkadijom Renkom, ktorá začala románom Gorkého park. Tieto príbehy sú cenené pre svoju atmosféru, komplexné zápletky a prenikavý pohľad na ruskú spoločnosť.
Kriminálny príbeh z prostredia Černobyľa, pätnásť rokov po známej katastrofe v ukrajinskej atómovej elektrárni. Zdanlivo neriešiteľné tajomstvo smrti nových ruských zbohatlíkov tvorí základ strhujúceho trilleru otvárajúceho sériu bestsellerov s inšpektorom Renkom.
Harry Niles je Američan, ktorý vyrástol ako „sirota žijúcich rodičov“, misionárov, v Japonsku. Vyrastá takpovediac nadivoko v tokijskom podsvetí, kde ho na celý život osudovo poznačí stretnutie so záhadným samurajom Išigamim... Neskôr sa z Harryho stáva špión, ktorý pracuje na dve strany – úspešne lavíruje medzi prosperujúcimi bankármi a podsvetím Tokia. Autorovi sa podarilo mimoriadne pútavo opísať dobu, v ktorej omylné ľudské charaktery tancujú zložitý a podvodný tanec smrti.
"Brilliant...One of the best books of the season." ASSOCIATED PRESS 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.
He made too many enemies. He lost his party membership. Once Moscow’s top criminal investigator, Arkady Renko now toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship working with American trawlers in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when an adventurous female crew member is picked up dead with the day’s catch, Renko is ordered by his captain to investigate an accident that has all the marks of murder. Up against the celebrated Soviet bureaucracy once more, Renko must again become the obsessed, dedicated cop he was in Gorky Park and solve a chilling mystery fraught with international complications. Praise for Polar Star “Stunning.”—The New York Times Book Review “Impossible to put down . . . a book of heart-stopping suspense and intricate plotting, but also a meticulously researched, ambitious literary work of great distinction.”—The Detroit News “Martin Cruz Smith writes the most inventive thrillers of anyone in the first rank of thriller writers.”—The Washington Post Book World “Gripping . . . absorbing.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
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.
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A blistering new Arkady Renko novel whose heroine - the courageous, enigmatic journalist Tatiana - is based on real-life journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Gorky ParkA 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.NightwingVampire bats: Evil. Clever.Deadly.Driven by blood-hunger across the American landscape, they bred and multiplied, unseen and unsuspected, each one a grisly messenger of death. No warm-blooded creature is safe from their thirst. Now, as darkness gathers, the sky is filled with the frantic motion, the maddening murmur of . . . Nightwing.
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.
Arkady Renko returns in a new mystery about crime and corruption in the cold, dark, impenetrable landscape of modern day Moscow.
