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Set against a backdrop of political intrigue and espionage, this Arkady Renko thriller delves into complex characters and gripping narratives. With a blend of historical context and modern-day tension, it promises to engage readers who enjoy the works of Robert Harris, Ken Follett, and Philip Kerr. The story unfolds with Renko navigating a web of deception, making it a captivating read for those who appreciate thrilling mysteries and deep character exploration.

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Football is everything in Uruguay, yet the story remains untold. In this first English-language history of the Uruguayan game, From Beauty to Duty maps football's journey from exclusive British pastime to national passion, bringing to life the teams, players and personalities who helped create one of the world's most intense sporting cultures.

From the award-winning author of Gorky Park comes a breathtaking novel featuring investigator Arkady Renko, who travels deep into Siberia to find missing journalist Tatiana Petrovna. Renko, Tatiana’s part-time lover, hasn’t seen her since she left for an assignment over a month ago. When she fails to arrive on her scheduled train, he becomes convinced something is wrong. While others dismiss his concerns, knowing Tatiana’s tendency to disappear during assignments, Renko is acutely aware of her enemies and their willingness to silence her. His quest takes him from Lake Baikal to Chita, where he discovers Tatiana has been profiling political dissident Mikhail Kuznetsov, a rising star in the oil industry and a serious threat to Putin’s regime. However, Kuznetsov's image becomes tarnished when he is linked to the murder of his business partner, Boris Benz. In a harsh landscape filled with shamans, wealthy oligarchs, and legends of sea monsters, Renko must rely on his instincts to rescue Tatiana. This latest installment in the series offers a gripping exploration of contemporary Russia, revealing the intricate world of political intrigue and corruption, all delivered with the author’s signature wit and insight.

From the 'master of the international thriller' (New York Times), comes a new stand-alone novel.

A blistering new Arkady Renko novel whose heroine - the courageous, enigmatic journalist Tatiana - is based on real-life journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

In Three Stations, Renko's skills are put to their most severe test. Though he has been technically suspended from the prosecutor's office for once again turning up unpleasant truths, he strives to solve a last case: the death of an elegant young woman whose body is found in a construction trailer on the perimeter of Moscow's main rail hub. It looks like a simple drug overdose to everyone -- except to Renko, whose examination of the crime scene turns up some inexplicable clues, most notably an invitation to Russia's premier charity ball, the billionaires' Nijinksy Fair. Thus a sordid death becomes interwoven with the lifestyles of Moscow's rich and famous, many of whom are clinging to their cash in the face of Putin's crackdown on the very oligarchs who placed him in power. Renko uncovers a web of death, money, madness and a kidnapping that threatens the woman he is coming to love and the lives of children he is desperate to protect. In Three Stations, Smith produces a complex and hauting vision of an emergent Russia's secret underclass of street urchins, greedy thugs and a bureaucracy still paralyzed by power and fear.

Moscow lies deep under snow, and Arkady Renko is called in to handle a delicate matter: passengers riding the last metro of the night have reported seeing the ghost of Stalin on the platform edge. Renko's girlfriend Eva and his adopted son, Zhenya, seem to be slipping into danger.

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.

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.

A beautiful young woman called Marilyn picks up a stranger in a bar and takes him home to her Manhattan apartment. The next morning her housekeeper discovers Marilyn's body. Marilyn's life and death have far-reaching effects on others, even people she has never met: a charismatic former police commissioner on the verge of a breakdown; a struggling writer; a folk art dealer plumbing the depths of her own fierce sexuality; a lawyer who prefers murder trials because there's one less witness. And in a city reeling from 9/11, an unlikely mass murderer wages a one-man war against everyone. In this gripping, multi-faceted story, Block not only brings to life in brilliant detail the city of New York, but proves he is one of the most talented, innovative and surprising crime writers in the business.

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.

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When the corpse of a Russian is hauled from the oily waters of Havana Bay, Arkady Renko comes to Cuba to identify the body. Looking for the killer, he discovers a city of faded loneliness, unexpected danger, and bewildering contradictions. His investigation introduces him to a beautiful Cuban policewoman; to the rituals of Santeria; to an American fugitive and a group of ruthless mercenaries. In this place where all things Russian are despised, where Hemingway fished and the KGB flourished, where the hint of music is always in the air, Arkady finds a trail of deceit that reaches halfway around the world–and a reason to relish his own life again.

Het onderzoek naar een bomaanslag voert een Moskouse politieman in augustus 1991 naar München, waar zijn ex-vriendin werkt bij een anti-Sovjet radiozender.

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I 1872 vender en engelsk mineingeniør modvilligt hjem fra Guldkysten. Hans foresatte sender ham til en mineby i Lancashire for at finde en forsvunden kapellan, og det bliver i enhver forstand en barsk og farefuld færd i en rå og umenneskelig underverden

Tra la neve del Gorky Park di Mosca emergono i corpi mutilati di due uomini e una donna. È il punto di partenza di un thriller paragonabile ai capolavori di Le Carré.

Follow-up to _Chickenhawk_ covers his post-Vietnam struggles with PTSD and civilian life.

"Sharply, evocatively written and elaborately plotted...It should find as many friends as did GORKY PARK." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Back from exile, Arkady Reko returns to find that his country, his Moscow, even his job, are nearly dead. Not so his enemies. Hounded by the Russian mafia, chased by ruthless minions of the newly rich and powerful, and tempted by his great love, Arkady can only hope for escape. Fate, however, has other ideas.... A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A LITERARY GUILD MAIN SELECTION

Arkadi Renko, de hoofdpersoon uit de veelgeprezen en verfilmde thriller Gorki Park is terug. Niet als politie-inspecteur, maar als arbeider op een Russische drijvende visfabriek genaamd Poolster. Wanneer het lijk van een vrouwelijk bemanningslid uit het ijskoude water van de Bering Straat wordt opgehaald, vraagt de kapitein aan Arkadi of hij dit incident wil onderzoeken. Steeds dieper dringt Arkadi door tot de complexe intriges van de sinistere bemanning van de Poolster. Maar ook hun Amerikaanse collega's van The Eagle, met wie de Russen in het kader van de perestrojka een samenwerkingsverband hebben opgezet, spelen een duistere rol in het geheel. Langzamerhand legt Arkadi Renko een web bloot van smokkel, corruptie, drugs en spionage... Ook in deze roman weet Martin Smith weer met meesterhand zijn personages te beschrijven. Poolster: een ijselijk spannende thriller die alles biedt waar de talrijke fans van Gorki Park op hebben gewacht.

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 a New Mexico snow storm, four men cross a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate to select a test site for the first atomic weapon. They are Oppenheimer, the physicist; Groves, the general; Fuchs, the spy. The fourth man is Sergeant Joe Peña, a hero, informer, fighter, musician, Indian. These four men—and a cast of soldiers, roughnecks and scientists—will change history forever.

Moscú, años ochenta. Los moscovitas carecen de libertad e intentan sobrevivir como pueden. La dirigencia, rica y corrupta, está decidida a erradicar cualquier clase de iniciativa individual. Arkady Renko es un investigador de la milicia moscovita, que se esfuerza por hacer su trabajo a pesar de las intromisiones del KGB. La aparición de tres cadáveres, desfigurados y sin huellas dactilares, bajo la nieve del Parque Gorki supondrá un desafío para Renko, pues cualquier descubrimiento que incomode al gobierno significará el fin de la investigación.

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They lay peacefully under their thawing crust of ice. Pribluda shouldered Arkady aside. When I am satisfied questions of state security are not involved, then you begin. It did indeed become a triple murder investigation for Chief Investigator Arkady Renko. Three corpses had been found in Moscow. But why the horrific mutilations?