By Martin Cruz Smith
Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's workplace, has been assigned the thankless task of investigating a brand new phenomenon: late-night subway riders file seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin at the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro station. the appearance turns out half political hocus-pocus and likewise half wishful considering, for between many Russians Stalin is back well known; the bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval score. Decidedly greater than that of Renko, whose lover, Eva, has left him for Detective Nikolai Isakov, a charismatic veteran of the civil struggle in Chechnya, a hero of the some distance correct and, Renko suspects, a killer for rent. The situations entwine, and Renko's quests turn into a private inquiry fueled via jealousy.The research results in the fields of Tver open air of Moscow, the place as soon as one million infantrymen fought. There, amidst the detritus, Renko needs to confront the ghost of his personal father, a favourite basic of Stalin's. In those barren fields, patriots and shady marketers -- the pink Diggers and Black Diggers -- acquire the bones, guns and private results of slain international struggle II squaddies, and locate that even one of the lifeless there are surprises.
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The café was a chrome affair above a car wash on the beltway. No car washes tonight, not with snow falling, and the few cars that made it to the café were SUVs with four-wheel drive. The exceptions were Arkady’s Zhiguli and Victor’s Lada crouching in a corner of the lot. Victor sipped a Chivas, just maintaining. Drinks were expensive and Victor had the patience of a camel. Arkady had a modest glass of water; he was a pale man with dark hair and the stillness of a professional observer. Thirty-six hours without sleep had made him more still than usual.
Those eight had been detained and the rest released. The platform conductor, a G. Petrova, had seen nothing out of the ordinary and was also allowed to go. The notes were signed by Detectives Isakov and Urman. ” “That’s right,” Zurin said. “He and Urman were called to another case. ” “Of course not. ” The platform clock read 0418, the same as Arkady’s watch. Time until the next train stood at 00, because the system wouldn’t start up again for another hour. Without a background rumble of trains the platform was an arcade of echoes, Zurin’s voice popping up here and there.
She swirled her glass. ” “If he’s already dead? ” Victor put up his hand. ” Zoya unfolded a piece of paper with a photograph of a drawing of a tiger fighting off a pack of wolves. The photo was murky, taken in poor light, and the drawing itself had an indistinct quality. ” “He has a tattoo,” Arkady said. ” Zoya Filotova was pleased. “I photographed the tattoo a few nights ago while he was in a drunken stupor. ” A sheet covered one corner of the tattoo but what Arkady could see was impressive enough.