Polar Star
Arkady Renko has made too many enemies and now he toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when a female crew member is picked up dead with the day's catch, Arkady becomes obsessed with the case and once again discovers more than he wants to know and...
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Arkady Renko has made too many enemies and now he toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when a female crew member is picked up dead with the day's catch, Arkady becomes obsessed with the case and once again discovers more than he wants to know and certainly more than he bargained for....
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345367655 (0345367650)
Publish date: June 13th 1990
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Novels,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Detective,
Russia,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense
Series: Arkady Renko (#2)
After Arkady Renko’s last case (Gorky Park) ended in a Phyrric victory, he was interned in a Soviet hospital and diagnosed with “sluggish schizophrenia.” (The theory behind this diagnosis was that anyone who acted against the state was clearly insane.) Martin Cruz Smith’s novel Polar Star begins a f...
bookshelves: fraudio, winter20092010, slavic, published-1989, mystery-thriller, seven-seas, polar, spies, revenge Read from January 15 to 19, 2010 mp3 download unabridged read by Frank Muller Luckily - there is a summing up of the ending of Gorky Park first.A hardboiled cold and fishy tale of a...
I’m not sure why I delayed getting to this title since I enjoyed Gorky Park so much, to which this book is a sequel of sorts. Of sorts, because it follows directly on the heels of Gorky, but the author in a few brief paragraphs lays out precisely why Arkady, formerly head investigator for the prose...
mp3 download unabridged read by Frank MullerLuckily - there is a summing up of the ending of Gorky Park first.A hardboiled cold and fishy tale of a murdered girl on a factory ship. On display here is how backs-to-the-wall humans respond when they live under a uncaring and oppressive regime. From Rec...
Audio read by Frank Muller. Arkady Renko is working on the slime line on a fishing boat when one of the crew is found dead.
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