Martin Cruz Smith's "Three Stations" is now available on audio for only $14.99
For the last three decades, beginning with the trailblazing "Gorky Park," Inspector Arkady Renko has captivated listeners with detective tales set in Russia. Now, in "Three Stations," Renko s skills are put to their most severe test.
Though he has been technically suspended from the prosecutor s office for once again turning up unpleasant truths, Renko strives to solve a last case: the death of an elegant young woman whose body is found in a construction trailer on the perimeter of Moscow s main rail hub. It looks like a simple drug overdose to everyone except to Renko, whose examination of the crime scene turns up some inexplicable clues, most notably an invitation to Russia s premier charity ball. Renko uncovers a web of death, money, madness, and a kidnapping that threatens the woman he is coming to love and the lives of children he is desperate to protect. In "Three Stations, " Martin Cruz Smith produces a complex and haunting vision of Russia s emergent secret underclass of street urchins, greedy thugs, and a bureaucracy still paralyzed by power and fear."