Polar Star
Arkady Renko has too many enemies. Out of favour with his party,he has lost his job as Moscow's top criminal investigator.Looking for aquiet life in self-imposed exile,Renko starts a new job on the 'smile line'of a factory ship trawling the Bearing Sea. But when the body of an adventurous Georgian woman is a dragged in with the day's catch,the captian calls on Renko to investigate.Despite the undeniable signs of murder,Renko knows that claiming foul-play could put him in danger with rest of the crew. Once again,Arkady Renko fiond himself pitted against the formidable Soviet bureaucracy,and is soon caught up in a web of international affairs.So when the chilling mystery turns out to be much more than Renko bargained for,will uncovering the truth be worth risking his life?
