Recensione:
'Muscovite Arkady Renko has long been the most persuasive of contemporary detectives...Tatiana, the eighth book in the series, is one of the most economical and polished...Cruz Smith can give us a landscape and a milieu with a crisp matter-of-factedness that poets would envy...He can make tension rise through the page like a shark's fin... The whole thing is at once grim and funny and beautifully done'Independent
'Smith made his reputation with the stunning 1981 blockbuster Gorky Park, set in Moscow with a hero, Inspector Arkady Renko, who was so gruff and drunk that he was impossible to forget. This eighth Renko novel stylishly tells the story of a female Russian investigative journalist who goes missing, and is clearly inspired by the killing of Anna Politkovskaya in 2006. Told in Smith's polished prose, it demonstrates that Smith is still capable of superb stories' Daily Mail
'Smith expertly carries on his tradition of weaving geopolitical conspiracy into gripping fiction. A decoder ring could have helped readers crack that notebook's code on their own, but struggling slowly from benighted dread into glimmering dawn of resolution is a fair reward. Figuring things out too quickly would only spoil the game' Liesl Schillinger, The Scotsman
'The fast-paced, pared-back prose is very different from the dense realism of Gorky Park. But there's no diminution in quality or excitement. Dour, sardonic Renko is always a joy to be around, and the race-against-time climax, as Renko's chess-genius ward Zhenya struggles to crack the translator's code, is expertly handled' --Guardian
L'autore:
Martin Cruz Smith is the bestselling author of thirteen novels, including the Arkady Renko thrillers: Gorky Park, Polar Star, Red Square, Havana Bay, Wolves Eat Dogs, Stalin's Ghost and Three Stations. A recipient of the CWA Gold Dagger award for fiction in the UK, he is also two-time winner of the Hammett Prize in the United States. He lives in northern California with his wife and three children.
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