A New York Times Bestselling Author Cynical, quietly subversive, brilliantly analytical and haunted by melancholy, Arkady Renko is one of the iconic detectives of contemporary fiction. Renko has survived, barely, the journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find his transformed nation just as obsessed with secrecy, corruption and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. In his most baffling case yet, Renko enters the privileged world of Russia's new billionaire class to investigate the apparent suicide of its grandest member.
