Red Square (Italian Edition)

by Martin Cruz Smith, Marco Amante (Translator)

Overview

L'investigatore speciale Arkady Renko, l'indimenticabile protagonista di Gorky Park, è tornato a Mosca. Ma la città che trova, dieci anni dopo, è molto diversa da quella che ha lasciato: crollato il regime comunista, e con il rublo ormai privo di ogni valore, allo Stato si è sostituita la criminalità organizzata, efficientissima e potente. La mafia russa ha ormai saldamente in mano le redini dell'economia della nazione. Nuovi signori di Mosca sono i padrini delle diverse 'famiglie', ma a contendersi il primato sono soprattutto in due: Borya Gubenko, da poco a capo di un gigantesco mercato nero, e Makhmud, il vecchio leader della mafia cecena. Sulla scena di un impressionante mercato clandestino, Arkady incontra il "banchiere" della mafia pochi istanti prima che la sua macchina esploda. Tra dollari e marchi consumati dal fuoco, comincerà così un'indagine che lo condurrà nelle pieghe più nascoste del nuovo "capitalismo" sovietico.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788852056642
Publisher:	MONDADORI
Publication date:	11/11/2014
Sold by:	ARNOLDO MONDADORI - EBKS
Format:	eBook
File size:	795 KB
Language:	Italian

About the Author

Martin Cruz-Smith's novels include Stalin's Ghost, Gorky Park, Rose, December 6, Polar Star, and Stallion Gate. He is a two-time winner of the Hammett Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers and a recipient of Britain's Golden Dagger Award. Currently, he lives in California.

Hometown:

San Rafael, California

Date of Birth:

November 3, 1942

Place of Birth:

Reading, Pennsylvania

Education:

B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1964

Website:

http://www.martincruzsmith.com

Editorial Reviews

A lot has happened to Arkady Renko and to his country since he found three bodies frozen in the middle of Gorky Park more than 11 years ago. There was exile in Siberia, then working on a fishing boat in the Arctic ("Polar Star" ), and now, just prior to the 1991 attempted coup, he finds himself reestablished as an investigator with the Moscow police and struggling to contain a flourishing underworld in the newly democratic Soviet Union. As in "Gorky Park" , however, it's not long before Arkady runs afoul of his superiors, who may be democratized but are still bureaucrats at heart. A seemingly straightforward murder investigation leads Arkady first to corruption in high places, then to official censure, and finally to Munich, where he is reunited with Irina, the lover who got him in all that trouble back in the early 1980s. Just as cynical as ever but even more world weary, Arkady lands in an all-too-familiar position--caught in the middle, this time between continuing his investigation into what now appears to be an art-smuggling racket and winning Irina back from her current lover, Max, who happens to be the brains behind the smuggling scheme. To some extent, Smith is merely replaying "Gorky Park" here--same tune, different lyrics--but, even so, it remains an alluring melody. Daily life in ever-changing Russia is once again masterfully evoked, and, after three novels, the character of Arkady has achieved an almost archetypal resonance: a hybrid of Chandler's Philip Marlowe and Dostoevsky's Underground Man, this chain-smoking insomniac with a taste for misery, a perverse love of deprivation, a desperate need to undermine authority, and an unflagging belief in the resuscitative power of love calls out to that beaten down, trod-upon side of ourselves, but also to our not-yet-stifled romantic souls. Misery and romance--an irresistible combination.

Bill Ott