Three Stations (Arkady Renko, #7)

Posted on 08 July 2018 by Martin Cruz Smith

A passenger train hurtling through the night An unwed teenage mother headed to Moscow to seek a new life A cruel hearted soldier looking furtively, forcibly, for sex An infant disappearing without a trace.So begins Martin Cruz Smith s masterful Three Stations, a suspenseful, intricately constructed novel featuring Investigator Arkady Renko For the last three decades, beginning with the trailblazing Gorky Park, Renko and Smith have captivated readers with detective tales set in Russia Renko is the ironic, brilliantly observant cop who finds solutions to heinous crimes when other lawmen refuse to even acknowledge that crimes have occurred He uses his biting humor and intuitive leaps to fight not only wrongdoers but the corrupt state apparatus as well.In Three Stations, Renko s skills are put to their most severe test Though he has been technically suspended from the prosecutor s office for once again turning up unpleasant truths, he strives to solve a last case the death of an elegant young woman whose body is found in a construction trailer on the perimeter of 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 Nijinksy Fair Thus a sordid death becomes interwoven with the lifestyles of Moscow s rich and famous, many of whom are clinging to their cash in the face of Putin s crackdown on the very oligarchs who placed him in power.Renko uncovers a web of death, money, madness and a kidnapping that threatens the woman he is coming to love and the lives of children he is desperate to protect In Three Stations, Smith produces a complex and haunting vision of an emergent Russia s secret underclass of street urchins, greedy thugs and a bureaucracy still paralyzed by power and fear. New Read [ Three Stations (Arkady Renko, #7) ] by [ Martin Cruz Smith ] – kino-fada.fr Russian cop Arkady Renko has been solving crimes in novels for almost three decades now When he was introduced during the Cold War in Gorky Park, Renko had to tread carefully because of a communist government that didn t like to even admit that there were any crimes, let alone appreciate someone being independent enough to actually try and solve them He s been exiled to a Siberian fishing boat, recalled to Moscow during glasnost, witnessed the final gasp of communism, gotten embroiled in plots Russian cop Arkady Renko has been solving crimes in novels for almost three decades now When he was introduced during the Cold War in Gorky Park, Renko had to tread carefully because of a communist government that didn t like to even admit that there were any crimes, let alone appreciate someone being independent enough to actually try and solve them He s been exiled to a Siberian fishing boat, recalled to Moscow during glasnost, witnessed the fi...I enjoyed this less than other novels by Martin Cruz Smith A complicated intermingling of multiple plots and characters requires a firm hand helping the reader along, and this time, Smith did not provide that hand It only takes a few words to allow the links in the reader s mind to click in, but these were, as least fo...Let me begin by admitting my bias I think that Martin Cruz Smith is one of the best novelists out there today What has often been said of David Cornwell a.k.a John LeCarre also goes for Martin Cruz Smith he may write popular fiction but it s also great literature If you want a sample of what I mean, just read the final page or even just the final line of Three Stations Although it s best if you read the rest of it first Three Stations is the latest chapter in the life and career of Let me begin by admitting my bias I think that Martin Cruz Smith is one of the best novelists out there today What has often been said of David Cornwell a.k.a John LeCarre also goes for Martin Cruz Smith he may write popular fiction but it s also great literature If you want a sample of what I mean, just read the final page or even just the final line of Three Stations Although it s best if you read the rest of it first Three Stations is the latest chapter in the life and career of Arkady Renko, Smith s wise and somewhat world ...Is it just me or there is some deep seated pleasure in reading a book or for the sake of this comment author you enjoyed years ago but some how fell out of favour with only to then rediscover Well that is the case with Martin Cruz Smith and his tales of Arkady Renko.I remember reading the book Gorky Park years ago and thoroughly enjoying it At the time I didn t realise how much forensics would catch the public imagination after all it was the first to popularise the use of reconstruction of Is it just me or there is some deep seated pleasure in reading a book or for the sake of this comment author you enjoyed years ago but some how fell out of favour with only to then rediscover Well that ...It pains me to give An Arkady Renko Novel a meager two stars, but Martin Cruz Smith has put out a book that falls short of his usual great work It remains true that Mr Smith paints a picture of modern Russia that is as disturbing, maybedisturbing, than Dickens London And his characters in their broken heroism are as compelling as ever Arkady Renko is an existential mess his partner, is a late stage alcoholic who lurches into functionality, but only just barely, his ward is a highly f It pains me to give An Arkady Renko Novel a meager two stars, but Martin Cruz Smith has put out a book that falls short of his usual great work It remains true that Mr Smith paints a picture of modern Russia that is as disturbing, maybedisturbing, than Dickens London And his characters in their broken heroism are as compelling as ever Arkady Renko is an existential mess his partner, is a late stage alcoholic who lurches into functionality, but only just barely, his ward is a highly functioning autistic street kid rescued from Chernobyl and now ...The thing is, Russians are perfectionists That s our curse It makes for great chess players and ballerinas and turns the rest of us into jealous inebriates This is the first of the Arkady Renko, Prosecutor s investigator that I have read and found it a taut page turner Renko is assisting his drunken police associate in the case of a young woman s body, found naked from the waist down in an old trailer An accidental OD, or is it Renko has been unable to contact his ward, Zhenya, a chess prThe thing is, Russians are perfectionists That s our curse It makes for great chess players and ballerinas and turns the rest of us into jealous inebriates This is the first of the Arkady Renko, Prosecutor s investigator that I have read and found it a taut page turner Renko is assisting his drunken police associate in the case of a young woman s body, found naked from the waist down in an old trailer An accidental OD, or is it Renko has been unable to contact his ward, Zhenya, a ...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here I m having a really hard time reviewing this book First off, I love the series, and love the Renko character Since GORKY PARK, Smith has shown us a world that we d never really seen first hand, and wrapped a nice little mystery in the middle of said world As Russia has changed in the last thirty years, so have the books changed to reflect those new realities Hell, THREE STATIONS even makes mention of Facebook and Twitter, which I d doubt any of us would have seen coming.My problem with THREE I m having a really hard time reviewing this book First off, I love the series, and love the Renko character Since GORKY PARK, Smith has shown us a world that we d never really seen first hand, and wrapped a nice little mystery in the middle of said world As Russia has changed in the last thirty years, so have the books changed to reflect those new realities Hell, THREE STATIONS even...As I haven t read any of the previous Arkady Renko novels, I am not able to rate this is comparison to the others So, for me, it was interesting, fast paced, and well written Shows the underbelly of current day Moscow Cool in a depressing kind of way.Three Stations is author Martin Cruz Smith s latest installment featuring Russian prosecutorial investigator Arkady Renko, though it s not the greatest That honor remains firmly in the grip of Smith s exceptional 1981 thriller Gorky Park, which first introduced Renko to the literary world Three Stations is the seventh novel in the Renko series Smith wasn t quite 40 years old when Gorky Park came out, and the Soviet Union still had a decade of life left in it Smith was nearly nearly 7 Three Stations is author Martin Cruz Smith s latest installment featuring Russian prosecutorial investigator Arkady Renko, though it s not the greatest That honor remains firmly in the grip of Smith s exceptional 1981 thriller Gorky Park, which first introduced Renko to the literary world Three Stations is the seventh novel in the Renko series Smith wasn t quite 40 years old when Gorky Park came out, and the Soviet Union still had a decade of life left in it Smith was nearly nearly 70 when Three Stations was published in 2010, by which time the Soviet Union that Smith and Renko grew up with had been dead and gone for almost 20 years.Or had it As he has with all the novels in his Renko series, Smith artfully imbues the stories and the characters that fill them with a certain brand of uniquely vodka drenched Russian discontent and world weariness that has thrived unabated for generations It s clear Smith and Renko see Russia s current...Mikhail Gorbachev, who ought to know, recently declared that the regime of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev is hard to distinguish from the old Communist regime because both are grounded in authoritarianism Arkady Renko, the investigator hero of Martin Cruz Smith s successful series of novels about crime and punishment, first in the USSR and now in Russia, would surely agree.For nearly 30 years, Renko has plumbed the depths of Russia s deepest and darkest recesses in search of justice and fou Mikhail Gorbachev, who ought to know, recently declared that the regime of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev is hard to distinguish from the old Communist regime because both are grounded in authoritarianism Arkady Renko, the investigator h...

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08 July 2018

Martin Cruz Smith