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    Polar Star
    Polar Star
    Polar Star
    Audiobook11 hours

    Polar Star

    Written by Martin Cruz Smith

    Narrated by Frank Muller

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In the second installment in the Arkady Renko series from internationally bestselling author Martin Cruz Smith, Renko goes up against the Soviet bureaucracy in a complex international web and discovering more than he bargained for.

    Arkady Renko, former Chief Investigator of the Moscow Town Prosecutor's Office, made too many enemies and lost the favor of his party. After a self-imposed exile in Siberia, Renko toils on the 'slime line' of a factory ship in the Bering Sea. But when an adventurous Georgian woman comes up with the day's catch, the signs of murder are undeniable. Up against the Soviet bureaucracy in a complex international web, Renko must again become the obsessed, dedicated cop he once was. And in doing so, he discovers much more than he bargained for.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateApr 30, 2019
    ISBN9781508299912
    Polar Star
    Author

    Martin Cruz Smith

    Martin Cruz Smith’s novels include Gorky Park, Stallion Gate, Nightwing, Polar Star, Stalin’s Ghost, Rose, December 6, Tatiana, The Girl from Venice, and The Siberian Dilemma. He is a two-time winner of the Hammett Prize, a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award and Britain’s Golden Dagger Award, and a winner of the Premio Piemonte Giallo Internazionale. He lives in California.

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    • 5/5
      A gripping, literally icy Russian noir, the encased, small setting of a trawler in the Arctic Circle was the perfect stage for a murder mystery as led by Arkady Renko. Plot well done and cast of characters well made, my favorite of the suspects, the menacing Karp and secondly the sneering Hess, the ending fitting as expected of a dark crime novel, especially one set in the USSR. Look forward to the next novel.