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Tatiana
Tag	Description
020	$a9781849838115
082	$aAFM SMI
100	$aSmith, Martin Cruz
245	$aTatiana
260	$aLondon, UK:$bSimon & Schuster,$c2013.
300	$a325 pages,$c23cm.
520	$aThe reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire is shot and buried with the trappings due a lord. The trail leads to Kaliningrad, a Cold War “secret city” that is separated by hundreds of miles from the rest of Russia. The more Arkady delves into Tatiana’s past, the more she leads him into a surreal world of wandering sand dunes, abandoned children, and a notebook written in the personal code of a dead translator. Finally, in a lethal race to uncover what the translator knew, Renko makes a startling discovery that draws him still deeper into Tatiana’s past—and, paradoxically, into Russia’s future, where bulletproof cars, poets, corruption of the Baltic Fleet, and a butcher for hire combine to give Kaliningrad the “distinction” of having the highest crime rate in Russia.
650	$aRussia$vFiction.
650	$aPost-cold war$vFiction.
650	$aPrivate investigators$vFiction.