Russian cop Arkady Renko is back, looking into the death of a crusading journalist, in Martin Cruz Smith's Tatiana.
This is a great police procedural series that has been delivering the goods since Renko's first adventure, Gorky Park, in 1981 (and I think I have been reading him since then). Martin Cruz Smith has charted the rises and falls of Russian life during what has turned out to be a tumultuous time in their history.
But ultimately it is the honorable, philosophical, flawed hero Arkady Renko that buoys the novels, and fans of the series, or tarnished cops in general, will enjoy this latest outing.
I'm not sure Martin Cruz Smith's novels are getting the attention they once did (since the Gorky Park film adaptation), but this is a very solid novel the equal of previous in this series.
I picked this up from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana and read it quickly.
This is a great police procedural series that has been delivering the goods since Renko's first adventure, Gorky Park, in 1981 (and I think I have been reading him since then). Martin Cruz Smith has charted the rises and falls of Russian life during what has turned out to be a tumultuous time in their history.
But ultimately it is the honorable, philosophical, flawed hero Arkady Renko that buoys the novels, and fans of the series, or tarnished cops in general, will enjoy this latest outing.
I'm not sure Martin Cruz Smith's novels are getting the attention they once did (since the Gorky Park film adaptation), but this is a very solid novel the equal of previous in this series.
I picked this up from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana and read it quickly.
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