The Siberian Dilemma, 9

by Martin Cruz Smith

Book Overview

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Gorky Park and Tatiana comes a breathtaking new novel about investigator Arkady Renko--"one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction" (USA TODAY)--who travels deep into Siberia to find missing journalist Tatiana Petrovna.

Journalist Tatiana Petrovna is on the move. Arkady Renko, iconic Moscow investigator and Tatiana's part-time lover, hasn't seen her since she...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439140251
• ISBN13: 9781439140253
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

The Siberian dilemma

Martin Cruz Smith: in the beginning there was "Gorky Park," a very good accomplishment, and then it was all downhill, with the exception of "Tokyo Station". His latest novel, "The Siberian dilemma," is yet another weak effort, with the usual trite anti-Putin barbs and a totally confusing take on the dodgy oligarchs who run (with, for, or despite Putin?) the region's enormous resources. I understand that it is impossible, and even undesirable, to write a crime novel without placing the story in its socio-political context, but, like a comedian, Cruz Smith is happy to castigate without proof (and I mean even simply in the context of the fiction he's writing). And then: journalist Tatiana disappears for weeks and her editor is not worried, "she'll return when she is ready." Unlike any editor I have met in my career as a journalist, if for no other reason than expenses pile up and have to be justified. Renko, too, disappears for weeks and the police don't launch an investigation? One of the oligarchs disappears--one of the richest men in Russia--and no one bothers to look for him? Please, dear author, there is a limit to the "willing suspension of disbelief." So, two stars, but simply because I was feeling generous.