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Tatiana : an Arkady Renko novel
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- ISBN: 9781439140215 (hc.) :
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Physical Description:
292 pages : map ; 24 cm.
print - Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2013]
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| General Note: | Maps on lining papers. |
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| Genre: | Mystery fiction. Suspense fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Parkland Regional.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Strathclair | F SMI (Text) | 35419002390624 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
When investigative reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire is shot and buried, investigator Arkady Renko connects the two cases, which leads him to a Cold War secret city. - Baker & Taylor
"In Tatiana, Martin Cruz Smith, 'the master of the international thriller' (The New York Times) 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. In Tatiana, Martin Cruz Smith's most ambitious novel since Gorky Park, 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. More than a mystery, Tatiana is a story rich in character, black humor, and romance, with an insight that is the hallmark of Martin Cruz Smith" -- - Baker & Taylor
When investigative reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire is shot and buried, investigator Arkady Renko connects the two cases, which leads him to a Cold War secret city and a teenage chess hustler to find the truth. - Simon and Schuster
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Arkady Renko, one of the iconic invesÂtigators 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 heroâcynical, analytical, and quietly subversiveâunravels 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 Tatianaâs voice describing horrific crimes in words that are at odds with the Kremlinâs official versions.
The trail leads to Kaliningrad, a Cold War âsecret cityâ that is separated by hundreds of miles from the rest of Russia. The more Arkady delves into Tatianaâs past, the more she leads him into a surreal world of wandering sand dunes, abandoned chilÂdren, 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 Tatianaâs pastâand, paradoxically, into Russiaâs future, where bulletproof cars, poets, corruption of the Baltic Fleet, and a butcher for hire combine to give Kaliningrad the âdistinctionâ of having the highest crime rate in Russia.
More than a mystery, Tatiana is Martin Cruz Smithâs most ambitious and politically daring novel since Gorky Park. It is a story rich in character, black humor, and romance, with an insight that is the hallmark of a writer the New York Times has called âendlessly entertaining and deeply serious . . . [not merely] our best writer of suspense, but one of our best writers, period.â
