Authors: Martin Cruz Smith
ISBN-13: 9780812977240, ISBN-10: 0812977246
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: March 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Best known for the Moscow detective novel Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith is also known for delivering stories of crime, conspiracy and intrigue featuring protagonists whose loyalties are sometimes murky. Whether he is dramatizing history or fashioning his own facts, Smith fills his deeply researched novels with a sense of darkness underneath the detail.
"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 impossibleand tries to stay alive doing it.
Brilliant...One of the best books of the season.