description: Moscow lies deep under snow, and Arkady Renko is on the trail of a suspect police officer, a former Black Beret who served with glory against the insurgency in Chechnya. But proof of the man's corruption is proving more elusive to gather. Then Renko's unpopular boss calls him in to handle a delicate matter: passengers riding the last metro of the night have reported seeing the ghost of Stalin waving to them from the platform edge. Every night at the same time, regular as clockwork. Meanwhile, his adopted son, Zhenya has disappeared, and his girlfriend, Eva, has reignited an affair with the very officer Arkady is investigating. Renko is assigned the help of an expert Stalinist, a decorated war hero and chess grandmaster. Not everyone, it seems, likes the fact that Stalin is dead..Not only an original and deeply humane thriller, "Stalin's Ghost" is also a wonderful evocation of the emerging New Russia where only too often the troubles of the present erupt into double-cross, murder and grand chess stratagems..
language: English
title: Stalin's Ghost
titlecomplete: Stalin's Ghost (Arkady Renko, #6)
characters: Elena Ilyichnina, General Renko, Nikolai Isakov, Igor Borodin, Eva Kazka, Tanya (Stalin's Ghost), Bora (Stalin's Ghost), Gennady Agronsky, Arkady Renko, The Deputy Minister (Stalin's Ghost), Stalin (Stalin's Ghost), Ginsberg (Stalin's Ghost), Pacheco and Wiley, Leonid Petrovich Zurin, Zoya Filotova, Zhenya Lysenko, Victor Orlov, Kuznetsov and his wife, Ilya Platonov, Prosecutor Sarkisian, Georgy and Fedya, Rudi Rudenko, Marat Urman, Vladimir Zelensky
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Crime, Russia, Audiobook, Suspense
ratings_count: 6106
places: Tver, Russia, Moscow, Russia
series: Arkady Renko
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Hammett Prize, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 2. Platz International
publisher: Macmillan