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Stalin's ghost : a novel / Martin Cruz Smith.

by Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942-

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Simon & Schuster, c2007.

Police -- Russia (Federation) -- Fiction.

Moscow (Russia) -- Fiction.

Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- Arkady Renko series ; 6.

9780743276726 (hardcover)

9780743276733 (trade pbk.)

332 p. ; 24 cm.

"Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro station. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking, for among many Russians Stalin is again popular; the bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval rating. Decidedly better than that of Renko, whose lover, Eva, has left him for Detective Nikolai Isakov, a charismatic veteran of the civil war in Chechnya, a hero of the far right and, Renko suspects, a killer for hire. The cases entwine, and Renko's quests become a personal inquiry fueled by jealousy. The investigation leads to the fields of Tver outside of Moscow, where once a million soldiers fought. There, amidst the detritus, Renko must confront the ghost of his own father, a favorite general of Stalin's. In these barren fields, patriots and shady entrepreneurs -- the Red Diggers and Black Diggers -- collect the bones, weapons and personal effects of slain World War II soldiers, and find that even among the dead there are surprises."--Publisher.

Mystery fiction.

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