Polar Star: A Novel
Dec 2011 · William Monk · Sold by Ballantine Books
4.7star
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He made too many enemies. He lost his party membership. Once Moscow’s top criminal investigator, Arkady Renko now toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship working with American trawlers in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when an adventurous female crew member is picked up dead with the day’s catch, Renko is ordered by his captain to investigate an accident that has all the marks of murder. Up against the celebrated Soviet bureaucracy once more, Renko must again become the obsessed, dedicated cop he was in Gorky Park and solve a chilling mystery fraught with international complications.
Praise for Polar Star
“Stunning.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Impossible to put down . . . a book of heart-stopping suspense and intricate plotting, but also a meticulously researched, ambitious literary work of great distinction.”—The Detroit News
“Martin Cruz Smith writes the most inventive thrillers of anyone in the first rank of thriller writers.”—The Washington Post Book World
“Gripping . . . absorbing.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
Praise for Polar Star
“Stunning.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Impossible to put down . . . a book of heart-stopping suspense and intricate plotting, but also a meticulously researched, ambitious literary work of great distinction.”—The Detroit News
“Martin Cruz Smith writes the most inventive thrillers of anyone in the first rank of thriller writers.”—The Washington Post Book World
“Gripping . . . absorbing.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
Ratings and reviews
4.7
10 reviews
Martinian Prince
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29 January 2014
Renko is again out on the fringes, doggedly going through the motions of investigation, knowing he draws ever closer to truth and death. More than others in the series, I cringed, waiting for the ax to fall as Renko plods into ever more dangerous territory. The unstoppable force is caught between a rock and a hard place, and there is no avoiding what will either hurt him very badly or kill him. Soviet life in nutshell, he thinks. Well-crafted and satisfying.
Peter Murphy
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28 December 2015
Smith's gift for writing great novels is iced this time with the bittersweet return of the hero of Gorky Park.
About the author
Martin Cruz Smith’s novels include Gorky Park, Stallion Gate, Polar Star, Stalin’s Ghost, Rose, December 6, Tatiana, and The Girl from Venice. He is a two-time winner of the Hammett Prize, a recipient of Britain’s Golden Dagger Award, and a winner of the Premio Piemonte Giallo Internazionale. He lives in California.
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