Stalin's Ghost - Softcover

Cruz Smith, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 033044493X ISBN 13: 9780330444934

Verlag: Pan Books, 2008

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Moscow lies deep under snow, and Arkady Renko is called in to handle a delicate matter: passengers riding the last metro of the night have reported seeing the ghost of Stalin on the platform edge. Not everyone, it seems, likes the fact that Stalin is dead . . . But in the midst of a blizzard nothing is as it first appears to be. Renko's girlfriend Eva and his adopted son, Zhenya, seem to be slipping into danger. The owner of a matrimonial agency wants her husband killed. An innocent `Russian Bride' employs a garrotte. A chess grandmaster wanders into Renko's life and leads him into the line of fire. Diehard Communists gather to sing along with Stalin. `Red Diggers' uncover secrets buried for half century in a desolate forest and Renko discovers ghosts that have been waiting for him all his life . . . As Russia swings more and more to the right, Renko is more and more out of step. Not only an original and deeply humane thriller, Stalin's Ghost is also a wonderful evocation of the emerging New Russia. Praise for Martin Cruz Smith: `Cruz Smith not only constructs grittily realistic plots, he also has a gift for characterisation of which most thriller writers can only dream' Mail on Sunday

Biografía del autor:

Martin Cruz Smith's novels include Gorky Park, Stallion Gate, Polar Star, Red Square, Rose and Havana Bay. A recipient of the CWA Gold Dagger for fiction in the UK, he is also two-time winner of the Hammett Prize in the United States. He lives in northern California.

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• Verlag: Pan Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 033044493X
• ISBN 13: 9780330444934
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400