β Martin Cruz Smith
π Fiction
π
2010
π English
β 245 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
Red Square
β Scribed by Martin Cruz Smith
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 263 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1849838135
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β¦ Synopsis
Arkady Renko has returned to Moscow from his exile in the darkest reaches of the Soviet Union. He is reinstated as an Investigator in the Moscow Militsiya, only to find the home he once knew so well is crumbling under a new world order - the Russian mafia. After the brutal murder of a black-market banker, Renko finds himself wrapped in the rich, ruthless and highly powerful underworld of the new elite. The case will take Renko on an international journey that will lead him to someone he thought was lost to him forever - defector Irina Asanova.
'Smith was among the first of a new generation of writers who made thrillers literary' Guardian
'One of those writers that anyone who is serious about their craft views with respect bordering on awe' Val McDermid
'Like the luminaries of the genre, Smith is at heart a deeply moral writer, and beneath his wry, cynical tone you can feel his authorial anger twitching a safe distance away. Paired with what reads deceptively like a native's...
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