Polar Star ANNOTATION
Arkady Renko, the obsessed, dedicated cop of Gorky Park, has lost his party membership. He now toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship working with American trawlers in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when he is ordered by his captain to investigate an "accident" that has all the marks of murder, Renko once again finds himself face-to-face with the Soviet bureaucracy.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
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....
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
Sprung from a state psychiatric hospital, Arkady Renko takes refuge in Siberia, ultimately working on a Soviet factory ship in the Bering Sea. When one of his shipmates is murdered, he's pressed into service. ``Those eagerly awaiting the return of Renko, the saturnine, chain-smoking police investigator from Moscow who appeared in the bestseller Gorky Park , will be glad to know their hero is back in fine form,'' said PW. Author tour. (July)
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