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Arkady Renko Séries

Cette série suit la vie et le travail d'Arkady Renko, un inspecteur en chef des homicides à Moscou. Elle dresse un portrait réaliste de la Russie post-soviétique à travers des intrigues policières captivantes. Les lecteurs sont entraînés dans des affaires complexes et des machinations politiques qui façonnent la vie des personnages et le destin de la nation. C'est une lecture immersive pour les amateurs de romans policiers et de littérature russe.

Stalins Geist
Wolves Eat Dogs
Havana Bay
Red Square
Polar Star
Gorky park

Ordre de lecture recommandé

  1. Gorky park

    • 433pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    "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 impossible--and tries to stay alive doing it.

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    4,1

  2. Polar Star

    • 366pages
    • 13 heures de lecture

    He made too many enemies. He lost his party membership. Once Moscow’s top criminal investigator, Arkady Renko now toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship working with American trawlers in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when an adventurous female crew member is picked up dead with the day’s catch, Renko is ordered by his captain to investigate an accident that has all the marks of murder. Up against the celebrated Soviet bureaucracy once more, Renko must again become the obsessed, dedicated cop he was in Gorky Park and solve a chilling mystery fraught with international complications. Praise for Polar Star “Stunning.”—The New York Times Book Review “Impossible to put down . . . a book of heart-stopping suspense and intricate plotting, but also a meticulously researched, ambitious literary work of great distinction.”—The Detroit News “Martin Cruz Smith writes the most inventive thrillers of anyone in the first rank of thriller writers.”—The Washington Post Book World “Gripping . . . absorbing.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

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    4,0

  3. Red Square

    • 510pages
    • 18 heures de lecture

    Une voiture explose dans la nuit, près du périphérique de Moscou. A son bord, Rosen, le banquier des mafias géorgienne et tchétchène. Pour le policier Arkady Renko, héros de Gorky Park, c'est le début d'une enquête d'autant plus difficile que son adjoint, puis son supérieur hiérarchique trouvent dans la même période une mort violente. Un mot clé : Red Square, ce qui désigne à la fois la place Rouge et une toile de Malevitch, peintre censuré par l'ancien pouvoir, dont les œuvres sont elles aussi devenues objets de trafic. De Moscou à Berlin et Munich, où il retrouvera sa bien-aimée Irina, Arkady s'enfonce dans le chaos de l'ancien monde communiste, où la seule loi qui subsiste est celle du crime et de la corruption. Avec Martin Cruz Smith, les Etats-Unis tiennent enfin leur John le Carré. New York Times. Arkady Renko mérite sa place parmi les grands détectives des classiques du crime. Sunday Telegraph.

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    4,0

  4. Havana Bay

    • 365pages
    • 13 heures de lecture

    Arkady Renko, l'inoubliable détective de Parc Gorki, débarque à Cuba pour identifier le corps d'un Russe exilé retrouvé noyé dans le port de La Havane. En quelques heures, il est plongé dans la réalité occulte d'une île à deux visages. Derrière les vestiges fastueux du paradis communiste, le charme de ses habitantes et le rythme de la salsa, il découvre une société régie par des cultes d'une grande violence, exploitée par des hommes d'affaires sans scrupules, convoitée par les mafias, et sur laquelle plane l'ombre menaçante de Fidel. Pour élucider la mort de son compatriote, Arkady passe outre tous les codes, semant une pagaille monstre. Il devient alors l'homme à abattre. Seule Ofelia, une détective ravissante, révolutionnaire convaincue, accepte de l'aider.

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    3,8

  5. Wolves Eat Dogs

    • 336pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    Masterfully crafted and told with extraordinary insight and imaginative breadth, the bestselling author of GORKY PARK brings us Renko's most beguiling and unusual adventure to date.

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    3,9

  6. Stalins Geist

    • 365pages
    • 13 heures de lecture

    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.

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    3,8

  7. Three Stations

    In Three Stations, Renko's skills are put to their most severe test. Though he has been technically suspended from the prosecutor's office for once again turning up unpleasant truths, he strives to solve a last case: the death of an elegant young woman whose body is found in a construction trailer on the perimeter of Moscow's main rail hub. It looks like a simple drug overdose to everyone -- except to Renko, whose examination of the crime scene turns up some inexplicable clues, most notably an invitation to Russia's premier charity ball, the billionaires' Nijinksy Fair. Thus a sordid death becomes interwoven with the lifestyles of Moscow's rich and famous, many of whom are clinging to their cash in the face of Putin's crackdown on the very oligarchs who placed him in power. Renko uncovers a web of death, money, madness and a kidnapping that threatens the woman he is coming to love and the lives of children he is desperate to protect. In Three Stations, Smith produces a complex and hauting vision of an emergent Russia's secret underclass of street urchins, greedy thugs and a bureaucracy still paralyzed by power and fear.

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    3,8

  8. Tatiana

    • 336pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    A blistering new Arkady Renko novel whose heroine - the courageous, enigmatic journalist Tatiana - is based on real-life journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

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    3,7

  9. The Siberian dilemma

    • 288pages
    • 11 heures de lecture

    From the 'master of the international thriller' (New York Times), comes a new Arkady Renko novel.

    The Siberian dilemma9
    3,6