Three Stations

An Arkady Renko Novel

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Arkady Renko returns in a gripping mystery involving a kidnapped baby with a mysterious teenage mother, a murdered prostitute, police corruption, and as always, the complex, impenetrable landscape of modern-day Moscow.

Investigator Arkady Renko is back on the scene, with a whole new set of problems: his prosecutor keeps him without work, he’s struggling with the onset of middle age, and his friend Victor is arrested for public drunkenness. Zhenya, the fifteen-year-old chess prodigy whom Renko tries to parent, returns to the scene when he witnesses a shocking crime.

As always, Smith’s Three Stations is filled with intriguing, flawed characters and set in Moscow, a city so intricate and three-dimensional it’s practically a character itself.

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Simon & Schuster Audio |
6 disks |
ISBN 9780743596893 |
August 2010

$29.99 List Price

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Praise

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“[Smith] takes what in essence is a police procedural and elevates it to the level of absorbing fiction.”

– Nicholas A. Basbanes, Los Angeles Times

“A continuing adventure that in terms of popular fiction is surely a work of art.”

– Patrick Anderson, Washington Post

“Martin Cruz Smith knows his Russia. Every page reeks of Moscow: dirty snow, the stink of cigarette and vodka fumes, the cynicism and tasteless opulence of the mafia, the all-pervasive corruption.”

– The Economist

“The sustained success of Smith’s Renko books is based on much more than Renko. This author’s gift for tart, succinct description creates a poisonous political backdrop, one that makes his characters’ survival... ”

– Janet Maslin, New York Times

“There are few thriller practitioners indeed who can weld a story to a graceful chassis of literature and send it barreling away at top speed. Martin Cruz Smith is one of them.”

– Andrew Z. Galarneau, Buffalo News

“As always, Smith elevates a police procedural story to a taste of Russia, a glass of vodka poured quivering to the brim.”

– Jennifer Kay, Associated Press

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Read an Excerpt

The summer night swam by. Villages, ripening fields, derelict churches flowed and mixed with Maya’s dreams.

She tried to stay awake but sometimes her eyelids had their way. Sometimes the girl dreamt of the train’s first-class passengers tucked away asleep in their compartments.

Hard class had no compartments. “Hard class” was a dormitory coach where a few lamps were still lit and snoring, muffled sex, body odor and domestic quarrels were shared by all. Some passengers had been on the train for days and the fatigue of close quarters had set in. A round-the-clock card game...