A review by smartipants8
Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith

4.0

One of the reviewers on the back of this book said that Martin Cruz Smith's detective Arkady is a hero in the tradition of Graham Greene's heros. That might be what I like about these novels. Complicated, unable to do the easy thing that would get him out of trouble, and plagued by pity - Detective Arkady gets involved with Chechen vets and American style politics in this pageturner. I picked it up in the Toronto airport and it served me well through the Charlotte to Detroit to Amsterdam flight.