Stalin's Ghost Paperback / softback

by Martin Cruz Smith

Part of the The Arkady Renko Novels series

Paperback / softback

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*Â Don't miss the latest in the Arkady Renko series,Â THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA, by Martin Cruz Smith, a novelist 'that anyone who is serious about their craft views with respect bordering on awe' (Val McDermid) *'Martin Cruz SmithÂ makes tension rise through the page like a shark's finâ€™Â Independent Once the Chief Investigator of the Moscow Militsiya, Arkady Renko is now a pariah of the Prosecutor's Office and has been reduced to investigating reports of late-night subway riders seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin.

Part political hocus-pocus, part wishful thinking - even the illusion of the bloody dictator has a higher approval rating than Renko.

After being left by his lover for a more popular and successful detective, Renko's investigation becomes a jealousy-fuelled quest leading to the barren fields of Tver, where millions of soldiers fought, and lost their lives.

Here, scavengers collect bones, weapons and paraphernalia off the remains of those slain, but there's more to be found than bullets and boots. Praise for Martin Cruz Smith: 'The storyÂ drips with atmosphere and authenticityÂ â€“ a literary triumph' David Young, bestselling author ofÂ Stasi ChildÂ â€˜Smith not only constructsÂ grittily realisticÂ plots, he also has a gift for characterisation of which most thriller writers can only dream'Â Mail on Sunday 'Smith was among the first ofÂ a new generation of writers who made thrillers literary'Â Â Guardian 'Brilliantly worked,Â marvellously writtenÂ . . . an imaginative triumph'Â Â Sunday Times 'A wonderful surprise of a novelâ€™Â William Ryan, author ofÂ The Constant Soldier