Polar Star (Arkady Renko Novels)
 

Polar Star

by Martin Cruz Smith

Arkady Renko has made too many enemies and now he toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when a female crew member is picked up dead with the day's catch, Arkady becomes obsessed with the case and once again discovers more than he wants to know and certainly more than he bargained for.... (read review)

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punxsygal
  • Rated 4 stars

After his disgrace in Gorky Park, senior homicide investigator Arkady Renko has been hiding in Siberia. Polar Star finds him working the slime line on a Soviet factory ship which is working in cooperation with American trawlers in American waters. He hasn't set foot on land in almost a year. The last net of the night comes up bearing the body of a woman missing from the Russian ship. On his captains orders, Arkady unwillingly, painfully is drawn back into his life as a detective. A dark...

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Ray A
  • Rated 2 stars

Not as good as Gorkey Park

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  • Rated 3.810345 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
 

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  • GitaMadhu

    gitamadhu said:

    Vivid writing. Scenes that lash out at you such as the yucky one with the slime eels (a la Alien).

    Solid fight sequences.

    posted Monday, November 12 2007
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