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出版社:POCKET STAR
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ISBN:9781416541776
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作者:MARTIN CRUZ SMITH
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頁數:333
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出版日期:2007-06-01
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印刷日期:2007-06-01
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包裝:平裝
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開本:16開
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版次:1
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印次:1
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Winter was what Muscovites lived for. Winter kneedeep in snow that softened the city, flowed from golden dome to golden dome, resculpted statues and transformed park paths into skating trails. Snow that sometimes fell as a lacy haze, sometimes thick as down. Snow that made sedans of the rich and powerful crawl behind snowplows. Snow that folded and unfolded, teasing the eye with glimpses of an illuminated globe above the Central Telegraph Office, Apollo's chariot leaving the Bolshoi, a sturgeon sketched in neon at a food emporium. Women shopped amid the gusts, gliding in long fur coats.Children dragged sleds and snowboards, while Lenin lay in his mausoleum, deaf to correction, wrapped in snow. And, in Arkady's experience, when the snow melted, bodies would be discovered. In Moscow that was spring.
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INVESTIGATOR ARKADY RENKO the pariah of the Moscow
prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of
investigating a new phenomenon:late-night subway riders report
seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye
Prudy Metro station. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus
and also part wishful thinking, for among many Russians Stalin is
again popular; the bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval
rating. Decidedly better than that of Renko,whose lover, Eva, has
left him for Detective Nikolai Isakov, a charismatic veteran of
the civil war in Chechnya, a hero of the far right and, Renko
suspects, a killer for hire. The cases entwine, and Renko's quests
become a personal inquiry fueled by jealousy.
The investigation leads to the fields of Tver outside of
Moscow, where once a million soldiers fought. There, amidst the
detritus, Renko must confront the ghost of his own father,a
favorite general of Stalin's. In these barren fields, patriots and
shady entrepreneurs--the Red Diggers and Black Diggers--collect
the bones, weapons and personal effects of slain World War II
soldiers, and find that even among the dead there are surprises.
Stalin's Ghost is replete with Martin Cruz Smith's trademark
wit, dark humor and action.In this tale ofArkady Renko, Smith has
again fashioned an unforgettable character as cynical as Philip
Marlowe, but with the heart of a Chekhovian Everyman. The reader
is treated to an unparalleled thriller woven with a depth of
humanity found in the finest literature.
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