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Arkady RenkoSéries
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.
"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.
Arkady Renko is exiled on Polar Star, a Soviet factory ship which trawls the freezing waters from Siberia to Alaska: current status seaman (second class), his movements shadowed by those who know his past. Then, Renko is given a chance to reclaim his freedom - by investigating a lonely and very mysterious death.
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.
The body, at least what was left of it, was drifting in Havana Bay the morning Arkady arrived from Moscow. Only the day before, he had received an urgent message from the Russian embassy in Havana that his friend Pribluda was missing and asking that he come.The Cubans insisted that this corpse floating in an inner tube was Pribluda, but Arkady wasn't so sure."You don't investigate assault, you don't investigate murder. Just what do you investigate?" Arkady asks Ofelia Osorio, a detective in the Policia Nacional de la Revolucion. "Or is it simply open season on Russians in Havana?"The comrades of the Cold War have parted bitterly, and the Russians who used to swarm through Havana's streets are now as rare as they are despised, much more so than Americans.Havana is overrun with color, music, and suspicion. The Revolution's heroes have outlived idealism. The Com-munist world has shrunk to Cuba. Paradise has become a stop on sex tours. It is a city of empty stores and talking drums, Karl Marx and sharp machetes, where an American radical rides around in Hemingway's car to tout island investments and a Wall Street developer on the run from the FBI flies a pirate flag."A dead Russian, a live Russian," Ofelia says. "What's the difference?" But the dead Russian is followed by the murders of a Cuban boxer and a prostitute. Although none of them is supposed to be investigated, Arkady cannot be stopped. He speaks no Spanish, knows nothing about Cuba, and, as a Russian, is a pariah. However, there is something about this faded, lovely, dangerous city--the rhythms of waves against the seawall, the insinuation of music always in the air, and, finally, Ofelia herself--that plunges Arkady back into life."What ultimately sets the Renko books apart is the careful writing, and, more important, the knowledge of the human heart that is carried through it, through them, first to last."–Chicago Tribune
Why is Pasha Ivanov - one of Russia's richest oligarchs - lying dead on the pavement outside his luxury high-rise apartment, his death an apparent open-and-shut suicide? Senior Investigator Arkady Renko has never been one to take evidence at face value and his investigations take him to the area around Chernobyl, deserted and forgotten.
Detective Arkady Renko returns to his Moscow base in Martin Cruz Smith's exciting installment in the internationally bestselling series about Russian crimes, broken hearts, and the mysteries of the soul. 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.
A blistering new Arkady Renko novel whose heroine - the courageous, enigmatic journalist Tatiana - is based on real-life journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Czy Tatiana Pietrowna, słynna i niewygodna dla Kremla dziennikarka śledcza,
sama wypadła z balonu swojego moskiewskiego mieszkania, czy ktoś jej w tym
pomógł? I jak to się ma do zaszyfrowanego notesu tłumacza uczestniczącego w
tajnych rozmowach handlowych? Arkadij Renko, moskiewski śledczy, uważa, że
Tatianę zamordowano. Wbrew przełożonemu na własną rękę prowadzi dochodzenie.
Pomaga mu zapijaczony, ale nieoceniony detektyw Wiktor Orłow oraz przybrany
syn Żenia. Ślady prowadzą do rosyjskiej stolicy zbrodni Kaliningradu.
Arkdij trafia tam w sam środek afery, w którą zamieszani są zarówno najwięksi
rosyjscy gangsterzy, jak i ludzie z najwyższych kręgów władzy.
