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Polar Star
by: Martin Cruz Smith

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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780394578194
ISBN: 0394578198
Label: Random House
Manufacturer: Random House
Number Of Pages: 386
Publication Date: June 13, 1989
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: June 13, 1989
Studio: Random House
Sales Rank: 863728

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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....

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- Renko prevails, sort of, in story of mystery, love, ice, and spies
Having read all the Arkady Renko books, including Stalin's Ghost, except Polar Star and Red Square (plus Renko-less Rose), I decided to go back and catch up with Polar Star. Very glad I did. Full of excitement, close escapes, romances, murders, and enough detail about fishing in the Bering Sea on a Russian - US joint venture that you feel you have been there. (Martin Cruz Smith reminds me of the late James Michener in that I always learn a lot about places I have never been and things I have never done, all the while being greatly entertained - The world is fortunate to have such writers). Now I must one click on Red Square and complete the set.

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- The second Arkady Renko novel
"Polar Star" is the second Arkady Renko novel. In this one, Renko has been kicked out of the Party and more or less exiled to Siberia during the Glasnost-era of the Soviet Union. Renko is now working on a Soviet fishing trawler, not a choice career move. As in the earlier novel "Gorky Park," Detective Renko is an outsider, alienated from the Soviet system and regime, but not fond of Americans or the West. And as in Gorky Park, the Americans are definitely not the good guys.

My main criticism of this novel is that it is bleak and somewhat depressing, and the author's murky writing style contributes to this. On the other hand, the novel has a gritty, authentic feel that makes this one an interesting and entertaining read. Recommended.

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- Polar Star
The book arrived promptly and in good condition. My only disappointment is that I had ordered a First Edition but when it arrived I found that it was a First Print, Book-of-the-Month Club Edition. Not what I had hoped for.

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- ''A death is a tragedy, but an investigation is a political decision.''
Following his "politically incorrect" investigation of several murders in Moscow's Gorky Park, the dour but conscientious Arkady Renko has been deprived of his Communist party membership and his job. After escaping from the psychiatric hospital where he was being "treated," he has taken a series of low-level jobs in remote areas of the Soviet Union, trying to stay under the political radar--working in a slaughterhouse, a construction site, and now, on the "slime line" of the Polar Star, a gigantic Soviet fishing ship on the Bering Sea, preparing and freezing fish. Co-operating with the Eagle, a smaller American ship, the Soviets are trying to find common ground for understanding, or so they say.

When Soviet fishermen bring up a netful of fish, they discover the body of a flirtatious ... Read More

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- Renko is back in the game!
Mr. Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star novel is the second book in the Arkady Renko series. The first was Gorky Park, which I highly recommend. Polar Star is a good book that I would also recommend, however I didn't find it quite to the level of Gorky Park.

The novel is set in the late 1980's on a Soviet ship named the Polar Star that is involved in a joint venture with American trawlers fishing the Bering Sea. Renko is working on the ship in what can only be described as despicable conditions. However, when a crew member is found dead, Renko is resurrected as an inspector once again. The pictures that Mr. Smith creates are vivid and colorful. You can easily put yourself into the scenes and imagine what the characters are like.

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