Polar Star

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f Fishing in the Bering Sea, a trawler's
J nets bring up flatfish, pollock, crabs and
. a blonde girl in a white blouse and blue
- jeans. Her name is Zina, and she is a
i crewmember of the Soviet factory ship
i Polar Star which processes the American
trawlers' catches. Detailed to the ship's I "slime line", where the catch is gutted
before freezing, is second-class seaman Arkady Renko, formerly Senior Investigator in the Moscow Prosecutor's ^ Office, now banished to obscurity for
s "political unreliability". Renko,
L however, is appointed by the Polar Star's
I captain to investigate the death. While
r other officers hijack the inquiry and
i bring in a neat verdict of suicide, Renko
I pursues his lonely search and discovers,
among other things, why so many crewmen in the fishing fleet have an ^ urgent interest in turning him, too, into a ?? corpse. And as the fleet clears the i Aleutians and fishes its way north till it is
locked in the polar ice and fog, the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

f Fishing in the Bering Sea, a trawler's
J nets bring up flatfish, pollock, crabs and
. a blonde girl in a white blouse and blue
- jeans. Her name is Zina, and she is a
i crewmember of the Soviet factory ship
i Polar Star which processes the American
trawlers' catches. Detailed to the ship's I "slime line", where the catch is gutted
before freezing, is second-class seaman Arkady Renko, formerly Senior Investigator in the Moscow Prosecutor's ^ Office, now banished to obscurity for
s "political unreliability". Renko,
L however, is appointed by the Polar Star's
I captain to investigate the death. While
r other officers hijack the inquiry and
i bring in a neat verdict of suicide, Renko
I pursues his lonely search and discovers,
among other things, why so many crewmen in the fishing fleet have an ^ urgent interest in turning him, too, into a ?? corpse. And as the fleet clears the i Aleutians and fishes its way north till it is
locked in the polar ice and fog, the opportunities are not lacking.
With this sequel to Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith once again proves his uncommon knack for creating a spellbinder that is intelligent, original, sharply observed and drily ironic - and Arkady Renko here secures his place among the century's most engaging sleuths.
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martin cruz smith, former newspaperman and magazine editor, is now a fulltime novelist. He is the author of Gorky Park, nominated by Time magazine as "the thriller of the '80s" and subsequently turned into a memorable film. He lives with his family in Cahfornia.
GORKY PARK
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