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Tatiana : an Arkady Renko novel / Martin Cruz Smith.

by Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942-

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Center Point Large Print, 2014, c2013.

Mafia -- Fiction.

Police -- Russia (Federation) -- Fiction.

Women journalists -- Crimes against -- Fiction.

Political corruption -- Fiction.

Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskaia oblast, Russia) -- Fiction.

Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- Arkady Renko series ; 8.

Center Point Large Print ed.

318 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.

"Investigator Arkady Renko 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 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, hundreds of miles from the rest of Russia. Arkady delves into Tatiana's past, his only link 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."--Publisher.

Mystery fiction.

Suspense fiction.

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