“Martin Cruz Smith writes the most inventive thrillers of anyone in the first rank of thriller writers. a book of heart-stopping suspense and intricate plotting, but also a meticulously researched, ambitious literary work of great distinction.” -The Detroit News “Stunning.” - The New York Times Book Review The rank breath of the sea made halo of the colors, brilliant in the weepy night.

Like a gleaming pelt, mats of red, blue, orange strips covered the mesh: plastic 'chafing hair' designed to ease the net's way over the rocks of the sea bottom. 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. Don't miss the latest book in the Arkady Renko series, THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA by Martin Cruz Smith, ‘the master of the international thriller’ (New York Times) available to order now Arkady Renko, former Chief Investigator of the Moscow Town Prosecutor's Office, made too many enemies and lost the favour of his party. Polar Star ‘Like a beast, the net came steaming up the ramp and into the sodium lamps of the trawl deck. 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. 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.

Polar star by martin cruz smith