{"product_id":"1439140227-tatiana_an_arkady_renko_novel8","title":"Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel: 8","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eMartin Cruz Smith's “masterful” (\u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e) and “irresistible” (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e notable book of the year: Arkady Renko must connect the dots among a Russian journalist’s mysterious death, corrupt politicians, murderous gangsters, and brazen bureaucrats.\u003cbr\u003eArkady Renko, one of the iconic investigators 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 \u003ci\u003eTatiana\u003c\/i\u003e, the melancholy hero unravels a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia itself.\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 with the trappings due a lord. The trail leads to Kaliningrad, a Cold War “secret city” that is separated by hundreds of miles from the rest of Russia. The more Arkady delves into Tatiana’s past, the more she leads him into a surreal world of wandering sand dunes, abandoned children, and a notebook written in the personal code of a dead translator. Finally, in a lethal race to uncover what the translator knew, Renko makes a startling discovery that draws him still deeper into Tatiana’s past—and, paradoxically, into Russia’s future, where bulletproof cars, poets, corruption of the Baltic Fleet, and a butcher for hire combine to give Kaliningrad the “distinction” of having the highest crime rate in Russia.\u003cbr\u003eMore than a mystery, \u003ci\u003eTatiana\u003c\/i\u003e is Martin Cruz Smith’s most ambitious and politically daring novel since \u003ci\u003eGorky Park\u003c\/i\u003e. It is a story rich in character, black humor, and romance, with an insight that is the hallmark of a writer \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e has called “endlessly entertaining and deeply serious…[not merely] our best writer of suspense, but of one of our best writers, period.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMystery, Thriller \u0026amp; Suspense\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMystery\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSupernatural\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eGhosts\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Used - Poor","offer_id":47582330355902,"sku":"1439140227-6","price":12.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/61abW1STLbL.jpg?v=1779807613","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/1439140227-tatiana_an_arkady_renko_novel8","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}