MOMENTAN AUSVERKAUFT

Independence Square : Arkady Renko in Ukraine by Martin Cruz Smith (2023, Hardcover)

5.01 Produktbewertung

Über dieses Produkt

Product Identifiers

PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-101982188308

ISBN-139781982188306

eBay Product ID (ePID)24058364560

Product Key Features

Book TitleIndependence Square : Arkady Renko in Ukraine

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicThrillers / Espionage, Historical, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators

Publication Year2023

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorMartin Cruz Smith

Book SeriesThe Arkady Renko Novels Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight14.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-289679

Reviews"[Detective Arkady] Renko, who made his debut in 1981's Gorky Park , remains the archetype of an honest cop working for a corrupt regime." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Solid sleuthing by Arkady Renko and a good read for his fans." -- Kirkus Reviews

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number10

Dewey Decimal813.6

SynopsisDetective Arkaday Renko--"one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction" ( USA TODAY )--risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion to find an anti-Putin activist who has mysteriously disappeared. Martin Cruz Smith has written nine previous novels featuring Arkady Renko, one of modern detective fiction's most popular characters. These novels, beginning with 1981's international sensation Gorky Park , have collectively traced Russia's evolution over the last half-century. Now, with Independence Square , Smith focuses on the fraught and frenzied days leading up to Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine. It's June 2021, and Arkady knows that Russia is preparing to invade and subsequently annex Ukraine as it did Crimea in 2014. He is, however, preoccupied with other grievances. His longtime lover, Tatiana Petrovna, has deserted him for her work as an investigative reporter. His corrupt boss has relegated him to a desk job. And he is having trouble with his dexterity and balance. A visit to his doctor reveals that these are symptoms for Parkinson's Disease. This is an ingenious autobiographical conceit, as Martin Cruz Smith has Parkinson's, and is able through Arkady to movingly describe his own experience with the disease. Parkinson's hasn't stopped Smith from his work, and neither does it stop Arkady. Rather than dwell on his diagnosis, he throws himself into another case. An acquaintance has asked him to find his daughter, Karina, an anti-Putin activist who has disappeared. In the course of the investigation, Arkady falls for Karina's roommate, Elena, a Tatar from Ukraine. The search leads them to Kyiv, where rumblings of an armed conflict grow louder. Later, in Crimea, Tatiana reemerges to complicate Arkady's new romance. And as he gets closer to locating Karina, Arkady discovers something that threatens his life as well as the lives of both Elena and Tatiana. Few fiction writers have better captured contemporary Russia with more insight or authenticity than Martin Cruz Smith. He does the same here for Ukraine and the events that preceded Russia's invasion. Independence Square is a timely and a uniquely personal mystery novel-meets-political thriller by a master of the form.

LC Classification NumberPS3569.M5377I53 2023