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Three Stations: An Arkady Renko Novel
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Author
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Martin Cruz Smith.
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paperback
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7.75
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ISBN
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9780330444941
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Pages/Publication Date
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277/2011
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Daedalus Item Code
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30429
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List Price: Import
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$4.98
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Description
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The beleaguered Moscow detective of Gorky Park returns in his seventh outing, less popular than ever among his superiors for his uncanny ability to uncover inconvenient truths. Though he has been suspended from the prosecutor's office, Arkady Renko strives to solve one last case: the death of an elegant young woman whose body is found in a construction trailer near Moscow's main rail hub. It looks like a simple drug overdose to everyone—except to Renko, whose examination of the crime scene turns up some inexplicable clues, most notably an invitation to Russia's premier charity ball, the billionaires' Nijinsky Fair. "The sustained success of Smith's Renko books is based on much more than Renko. This author's gift for tart, succinct description creates a poisonous political backdrop, one that makes his characters' survival skills as important as any of their other attributes.... [This is] one top-flight series, still sharply honed, none the worse for wear."—NYTimes "Martin Cruz Smith knows his Russia. Every page reeks of Moscow: dirty snow, the stink of cigarette and vodka fumes, the cynicism and tasteless opulence of the mafia, the all-pervasive corruption."—Economist
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