Tatiana / Martin Cruz Smith.

By: Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- [author.]Contributor(s): Strozier, Henry [narrator.]Material type: SoundSoundPublisher: [New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2013]Copyright date: ℗2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 7 CDs (approximately 8 hr.) : digital ; 12 cmContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audiodiscISBN: 9781442388154; 1442388153Subject(s): Renko, Arkady (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Police -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Fiction | Women journalists -- Crimes against -- Fiction | Political corruption -- Fiction | Mafia -- Fiction | Detective and mystery stories | Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskaia oblast', Russia) -- FictionGenre/Form: Mystery fiction. | Suspense fiction. | Audiobooks. DDC classification: 813/.54 Read by Henry Strozier.Summary: One of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko--cynical, analytical, and quietly subversive--has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find the nation as obsessed with secrecy and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. In Tatiana, Martin Cruz Smith's most ambitious novel since Gorky Park, the melancholy hero finds himself on the trail of a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia herself. The fearless investigative reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire, Grisha Grigorenko, is shot and buried with the trappings due a lord. No one makes the connection, but Arkady is transfixed by the tapes he discovers of Tatiana's voice, even as she describes horrific crimes hidden by official versions.
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"An Arkady Renko novel"--Cover.

One of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko--cynical, analytical, and quietly subversive--has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find the nation as obsessed with secrecy and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. In Tatiana, Martin Cruz Smith's most ambitious novel since Gorky Park, the melancholy hero finds himself on the trail of a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia herself. The fearless investigative reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire, Grisha Grigorenko, is shot and buried with the trappings due a lord. No one makes the connection, but Arkady is transfixed by the tapes he discovers of Tatiana's voice, even as she describes horrific crimes hidden by official versions.

Read by Henry Strozier.

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