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| 008 | 131226s2013 nyub b 001 1 eng | ||
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_aPS3569.M5377 _bT38 2013 |
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| 100 | 1 | _aSmith, Martin Cruz, 1942- | |
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_aTatiana _b: an Arkady Renko novel _c/ Martin Cruz Smith |
| 250 | _aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition | ||
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_a292 p. _c; 24 cm |
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| 520 | _aIn Tatiana, Martin Cruz Smith, creates the most compelling heroine of his career and the most realistic, damning portrait of modern Russia in contemporary literature. One of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko -- cynnical, analytical, and quietly subversive -- 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. The melancholy hero finds himself on the trail of a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia herself. The fearless investigative reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire, Grisha Grigorenko, is shot and buried with the trappings due a lord. No one makes the connection, but Arkady is transfixed by the tapes he discovers of Tatiana's voice, even as she describes horrific crimes hidden by official versions. The trail leads to Kaliningrad, a Cold War "secret city" and home of the Baltic Fleet, separated by hundreds of miles from the rest of Russia. Arkady delves into Tatiana's past and a surreal world of wandering dunes and amber mines. His only link is a notebook written in the personal code of a translator whose body is found in the dunes. Arkady's only hope of decoding the symbols lies in Zhenya, a teenage chess hustler. | ||
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_aRenko, Arkady (Fictitious character) _x--Fiction |
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_aPolice _z-Russia _v--Fiction |
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_aWomen journalists _x-Crimes against _v--Fiction |
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_aPolitical corruption _v--Fiction |
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_aMafia _x--Fiction |
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| 655 | 7 | _aMystery fiction | |
| 655 | 7 | _aSuspense fiction | |
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