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Polar Star (Mortalis)

by Martin Cruz Smith

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He made too many enemies. He lost his party membership. Once Moscows top criminal investigator, Arkady Renko now toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship working with American trawlers in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when an adventurous female crew member is picked up dead with the days catch, Renko is ordered by his captain to investigate an accident that has all the marks of murder. Up against the celebrated Soviet bureaucracy once more, Renko must again become the obsessed, dedicated cop he was in Gorky Park and solve a chilling mystery fraught with international complications.

“Stunning.”

-The New York Times Book Review

“Impossible to put down . . . a book of heart-stopping suspense and intricate plotting, but also a meticulously researched, ambitious literary work of great distinction.”

-The Detroit News

“Martin Cruz Smith writes the most inventive thrillers of anyone in the first rank of thriller writers.”

-The Washington Post Book World

“Gripping . . . absorbing.”

-The Philadelphia Inquirer

Synopsis:

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.... "From the Paperback edition."

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780345498175

Author:

Smith, Martin Cruz

Publisher:

Ballantine Books

Subject:

Thrillers

Subject:

Police

Subject:

Russia (federation)

Subject:

Detective and mystery stories

Subject:

Renko, arkady (fictitious character)

Subject:

Popular Fiction-Contemporary Thrillers

Copyright:

2007

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Series:

Mortalis

Publication Date:

20070631

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Y

Pages:

400

Dimensions:

8 x 5 x 0.8 in 0.6313 lb

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Product details 400 pages Ballantine Books - 2011-10-07 English 9780345498175 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Libri, 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.... "From the Paperback edition."