Polar Star

ISBN: 0345498178

Author: Smith, Martin Cruz

Condition: New

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.Praise for Polar StarStunning.-The New York Times Book ReviewImpossible 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 NewsMartin Cruz Smith writes the most inventive thrillers of anyone in the first rank of thriller writers.-The Washington Post Book WorldGripping . . . absorbing.-The Philadelphia Inquirer