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Smith, Martin Cruz | Stalin's Ghost: An Arkady Renko Novel | Signed Book - Advance Reading Copy
Stalin's Ghost: An Arkady Renko Novel | Smith, Martin Cruz | Signed Book - Advance Reading Copy


 
STALIN'S GHOST by Martin Cruz Smith
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Advance reading copy, mint, new/unread in a flawless pictorial wrappers, signed by the author. June 2007 NY: Simon & Schuster ISBN 9780743276726
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STALIN'S GHOST: AN ARKADY RENKO NOVEL by Martin Cruz Smith - SIGNED BOOK - ADVANCE READING COPY

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Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro station. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking, for among many Russians Stalin is again popular; the bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval rating. Decidedly better than that of Renko, whose lover, Eva, has left him for Detective Nikolai Isakov, a charismatic veteran of the civil war in Chechnya, a hero of the far right and, Renko suspects, a killer for hire. The cases entwine, and Renko's quests become a personal inquiry fueled by jealousy. The investigation leads to the fields of Tver outside of Moscow, where once a million soldiers fought. There, amidst the detritus, Renko must confront the ghost of his own father, a favorite general of Stalin's. In these barren fields, patriots and shady entrepreneurs -- the Red Diggers and Black Diggers -- collect the bones, weapons and personal effects of slain World War II soldiers, and find that even among the dead there are surprises.

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