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200s: How do you find a man in Siberia?
200s: How do you find a man in Siberia?
Journalist Tatiana Petrovna has disappeared. Arkady Renko, iconic Moscow investigator and Tatiana’s on-off lover, hasn’t seen her since she left on a case over a month ago. No one else thinks Renko should be worried – Tatiana is known to disappear during deep assignments – but he knows her enemies all too well and the criminal lengths they will go to keep her quiet. Given the opportunity to interrogate a suspected assassin in Irkutsk, Renko embarks on a dangerous journey to Siberia to find Tatiana and bring her back.
Renko finds Siberia to be a land of shamans and brutally cold nights, oligarchs wealthy on northern oil and sea monsters that are said to prowl the deepest lake in the world. With these forces at work against him, Renko will need all his wits about him to get Tatiana out alive.
Irkutsk
A remote town in the middle of Russian Siberia – he’s there for one case but soon becomes involved in another investigation. It seems someone is sabotaging another oligarch Boris Benz’ oil wells and trains. Oil and gas are plentiful here and are where the major world supplies are located. This is a rich man’s playground.
Moscow
‘Arkady was an Investigator of Special Cases, and if a bear running loose in the heart of Moscow was not a special case, he didn’t know what was.’
BookTrail bookreview of The Siberian Dilemma
Destination/location: Siberia Authour/guide: Martin Cruz Smith Departure Time: 2000s
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