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Tatiana

by Martin Cruz Smith
Henry Strozier
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Arkady Renko, one of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find the nation as obsessed with secrecy and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. In Tatiana , the melancholy hero— cynical, analytical, and quietly subversive— unravels a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia itself. The fearless reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire, Grisha Grigo-renko, is shot and buried with the trappings due a lord. No one else makes the connection, but Arkady is transfixed by the tapes he discovers of Tatiana' s voice describing horrific crimes in words that are at odds with the Kremlin' s official versions. The trail leads to Kaliningrad, a Cold War " secret city" that is separated by hundreds of miles from the rest of Russia. The more Arkady delves into Tatiana' s past, the more she leads him into a surreal world of wandering sand dunes, abandoned children, and a notebook written in the personal code of a dead translator. Finally, in a lethal race to uncover what the translator knew, Arkady makes a startling discovery that draws him still deeper into Tatiana' s past— and, paradoxically, into Russia' s future, where bulletproof cars, poets, corruption of the Baltic Fleet, and a butcher for hire combine to give Kaliningrad the " distinction" of having the highest crime rate in Russia.

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Series: Arkady Renko Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781470364571
  • File size: 235567 KB
  • Release date: November 12, 2013
  • Duration: 08:10:45

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  • ISBN: 9781470364571
  • File size: 235601 KB
  • Release date: November 12, 2013
  • Duration: 08:10:42
  • Number of parts: 8
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Fiction Mystery Thriller

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Arkady Renko, one of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find the nation as obsessed with secrecy and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. In Tatiana , the melancholy hero— cynical, analytical, and quietly subversive— unravels a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia itself. The fearless reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire, Grisha Grigo-renko, is shot and buried with the trappings due a lord. No one else makes the connection, but Arkady is transfixed by the tapes he discovers of Tatiana' s voice describing horrific crimes in words that are at odds with the Kremlin' s official versions. The trail leads to Kaliningrad, a Cold War " secret city" that is separated by hundreds of miles from the rest of Russia. The more Arkady delves into Tatiana' s past, the more she leads him into a surreal world of wandering sand dunes, abandoned children, and a notebook written in the personal code of a dead translator. Finally, in a lethal race to uncover what the translator knew, Arkady makes a startling discovery that draws him still deeper into Tatiana' s past— and, paradoxically, into Russia' s future, where bulletproof cars, poets, corruption of the Baltic Fleet, and a butcher for hire combine to give Kaliningrad the " distinction" of having the highest crime rate in Russia.

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Fiction Mystery Thriller