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2) Gorky Park
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Arkady Renko novels volume 1
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English
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Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko's investigation of three mutilated bodies reaches to the highest levels of the Communist hierarchy.
3) Gorky Park
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Three mutilated bodies are discovered buried in the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park. Hurt is assigned to solve the crime, but is confronted by the uncooperative KGB. His trail leads to Irina (Pacula) who becomes his love.
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Sam Tucker has spent his life in the army. He was involved in the first Iraq war where he was decorated. He was court marshaled as a result of an incident when returning to Iraq in the second conflict and after a prison sentence, was dishonorably discharged. With no experience except the army he joined an organization run by a Russian ex- KGB officer who assonated people for a fee. As successful as Sam was, he came to the attention of Interpol and...
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Gorky Park: Three mutilated bodies are discovered buried in the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park. Arkady Renko, the chief investigator of the Moscow Militia, is assigned to unravel this horrific crime, but he is confronted by an uncooperative and corrupt KGB.
Eye of the needle: An English woman falls in love with a German spy.
13) Red Square
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Sharply, evocatively written and elaborately plotted . . . [Red Square] should find as many friends as did Gorky Park.”—The Washington Post Book World
Back from exile in the hellish reaches of the Soviet Union, homicide investigator Arkady Renko discovers that his country, his Moscow, even his job, are nearly dead. But...
Back from exile in the hellish reaches of the Soviet Union, homicide investigator Arkady Renko discovers that his country, his Moscow, even his job, are nearly dead. But...
14) Red to black
Author
Series
Anna Resnikov novels volume 1
Language
English
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"Red to Black has more in common with the elegantly paced books of John le Carré than it does with Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. But readers who appreciate a healthy dose of real-world worries in their spy novels won't complain."
-Richmond Times-Dispatch
Gorky Park for the Putin era, Red To Black by Alex Dryden could have been ripped from recent headlines. At once a spy thriller, a love story, and a chilling look at a dangerously resurgent...
15) Tatiana
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
"In Tatiana, Smith delivers his most ambitious and politically daring novel since Gorky Park. When the brilliant and fearless young reporter Tatiana Petrovna--based on the real-life journalist Anna Politkovskaya--falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow in the same week that notorious mob billionaire Grisha Grigorenko is shot in the back of the head, Renko finds himself on the trail of a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia...
16) December 6
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English
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From Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay, comes another audacious novel of exotic locales, intimate intrigues and the mysteries of the human heart: December 6.
Set in the crazed, nationalistic Tokyo of late 1941, December 6 explores the coming world war through the other end of history's prism-a prism held here by an unforgettable rogue and lover, Harry Niles.
In many ways, Niles should be as American as apple pie: raised by missionary...
17) Havana Bay
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
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...
18) Nightwing
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English
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From Martin Cruz Smith, the internationally bestselling author of Gorky Park, comes a reissue of Nightwing.
As darkness gathers, the sky is filled with frantic motion and maddening murmurs. In an effort to end the world, an unhappy, aging Native American shaman invokes the Hopi god of death. Those around him remain skeptical, dismissing him as crazy old man. Then they discover his mutilated, bloody body and soon other similarly disfigured bodies...
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English
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SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
An intense psychological drama that echoes sophisticated entertainments like Gorky Park and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Nick Platt is a British lawyer working in Moscow in the early 2000s—a place where the cascade of oil money, the tightening grip of the government, the jostling of the oligarchs, and the loosening of Soviet social mores have led to...
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Beyond help. Beyond redemption?
In a Soviet prison camp near Murmansk is an old man, bowed but not broken, identified only by a number. Were his name known, his fellow inmates would kill him.
For this old man is Stepan Povin, former KGB general, now disgraced but kept alive for the sake of the secret that he has retained through two years of interrogation.
Povin's secret is the final link in a chain, the completion of which would make his former...