Gorky Park
- 336pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Kriminalroman om kriminalkommissær Renkos jagt på gerningsmanden til mordene på 3 mennesker, hvis lig findes under sneen i Gorkij Park i Moskva.
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.
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Polar Star
- 400pages
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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
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.
Havana Bay
- 365pages
- 13 heures de lecture
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Wolves eat dogs
- 336pages
- 12 heures de lecture
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Stalin's ghost
- 416pages
- 15 heures de lecture
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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.
The Siberian dilemma
- 288pages
- 11 heures de lecture
From the 'master of the international thriller' (New York Times), comes a new Arkady Renko novel.
