TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Martin Cruz
TI  - Stalin's ghost
T2  - Arkady Renko series,
SN  - 9780330448574
U1  - Fic 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London
PB  - Pan Books
KW  - Police Russia (Federation)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
N2  - Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro station. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking, for among many Russians Stalin is again popular; the bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval rating. Decidedly better than that of Renko, whose lover, Eva, has left him for Detective Nikolai Isakov, a charismatic veteran of the civil war in Chechnya, a hero of the far right and, Renko suspects, a killer for hire. The cases entwine, and Renko's quests become a personal inquiry fueled by jealousy
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