By Martin Cruz Smith
“Brilliant . . . sufficient enigmas inside enigmas inside of enigmas to reel the mind.”–The New YorkerA triple homicide in a Moscow entertainment heart: 3 corpses came across frozen within the snow, faces and hands lacking. leader murder investigator Arkady Renko is amazing, delicate, sincere, and cynical approximately every little thing other than his occupation. to spot the sufferers and discover the reality, he needs to conflict the KGB, FBI, and the hot York urban police as he pursues a wealthy, ruthless, and well-connected American fur broker. in the meantime, Renko is falling in love with a stunning, headstrong dissident for whom he may possibly chance everything.“Once one will get going, one doesn’t are looking to cease. . . . The motion is gritty, the plot advanced, [and] the overriding caliber is intelligence.”–The Washington Post“Reminds you simply how pleasurable a easily grew to become mystery can be.” –The manhattan occasions booklet Review“An unimaginable fulfillment . . . bright, witty . . . thoroughly fascinating.”–Boston bring in American“Gripping, romantic, and dazzlingly original.”–Cosmopolitan
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The tracks of the militiaman who had found the bodies led halfway through the snow to the telltale humps in the center of the clearing. A chief investigator should have smoked a fine brand of cigarette; Arkady lit a cheap Prima and filled his mouth with the powerful taste of it - his habit whenever he dealt with the dead. There were three bodies, as the militiaman said. They lay peacefully, even artfully, under their thawing crust of ice, the center one on its back, hands folded as if for a religious funeral, the other two turned, arms out under the ice like flanking emblems on embossed writing paper.
Get lists of all the militiamen and food vendors who operated in this part of the park this winter, also of any public-order volunteers who could have been snooping around. ' Arkady got out of the car and leaned in the window. ' There was bound to be an informer in this kind of case; not only did the investigator bow to the fact, he welcomed it. ' When Pasha had gone two trucks rolled in bearing militia trainees and shovels. Tanya had the clearing marked in grids so that the snow could be shoveled meter by meter without losing sight of where evidence was found, though Arkady hardly expected any this long after the murders.
He looked at Fet. ' 'There was only one gun fired so far as we know. Can you imagine how difficult it would be for a single killer to make three victims stand still at close range while he fired - unless there were other gunmen with him? Why did the victims feel their situation was so hopeless they didn't even run for help? Well, we'll catch this murderer. We've only begun, and so many things always turn up. ' Fet didn't ask, Why fat? 'Anyway,' Arkady concluded, 'it's been a long day. ' Fet was first out.