This is the stunning new thriller from the author of "Gorky Park" and "Stalin''s Ghost". As a train pulls into Yaroslav Station, Moscow, a teenage girl - Maya - wakes to an unimaginable horror. Her baby has been taken...Increasingly disillusioned with the workings of Moscow''s Prosecution Service, Arkady Renko is teetering on the brink of resignation when he becomes drawn into a strange new case. A prostitute has been found dead in a trailer in Three Stations - a dark, notorious part of the city - without a mark on her. Soon Renko will find that the girl is linked to the extravagant Club Nijinsky and, as he is drawn into the extraordinary world of Moscow''s super-rich, that nothing is quite as it seems. Meanwhile, Maya also wanders Three Stations, searching for her baby. Her only ally is a young man, Zhenya - Renko''s own troubled ward - who is drawn to her cause and will guide her through Moscow''s dark underbelly. But neither Zhenya nor Renko realize that Maya herself is being hunted. And those seeking her will stop at nothing to silence her...
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Pan Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780330535694
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 13/06/2011
Año de edición: 2011
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Escrito por Martin Cruz Smith
Martin Cruz Smith (Pensilvania, 1942) trabajó como periodista antes de dedicarse exclusivamente a la escritura. Su primer libro, Gitano en ámbar, fue nominado para los premios Edgar.Es conocido por su serie de novelas que tienen como protagonista al detective ruso Arkady Renko. En 1981 escribió El parque Gorki, que la revista Time calificó como el mejor thriller de los ochenta. Se convirtió rápidamente en un bestseller y ganó el Gold Dagger Award de la British Crime Writers' Association. Es autor de Los álamos, Estrella polar, La Plaza Roja, Rose (Planeta, 1998), Bahía de La Habana (Planeta, 2000), Tokyo station y El tiempo de los lobos.Martin Cruz Smith ha ganado el premio Grinzane Cavour Noir 2008.