The body of a Russian embassy official is found floating in Havana Bay, and Arkady Renko, the memorable detective from GORKY PARK, is sent to identify it. Renko, however, refuses to positively identify the body. Later that night, somebody tries to kill him. The Russian is soon followed in death by a Cuban boxer and a prostitute. Although none of them is supposed to be investigated, Renko cannot be stopped. And now, Renko can't go home - he's stuck in Cuba. He speaks no Spanish, knows nothing about Cuba, and as a Russian in post Cold War Cuba, is a pariah. However there is something about Havana - the rhythms of waves against the seawall, the insinuation of music in the air, and finally, Ofelia herself, a Cuban detective - that plunges Renko back into life.
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In this fourth book in Martin Cruz Smith's splendid series, an amiable Irish American gangster explains to Arkady Renko what he and the other 84 wanted Americans hiding out in Cuba do with themselves. "We try to stay alive. Useful. Tell me, Arkady, what are you doing here?" "The same," says Renko--and it's true. His life as a Russian cop has become so bleak and lonely that he takes any opportunity to shake things up, even spending his own savings to fly to Havana when an old colleague is found dead--floating inside an inner tube after night-fishing in Havana Bay. Renko sets out to make himself useful in this shabby, fascinating, haunted country whose inhabitants look on Russians with the cold disdain of survivors of a nasty divorce.
As he did so well in Gorky Park, Smith again makes Renko very much a classic Russian hero in temperament and tradition, but also the eternal outsider. He is at times close to the edge of despair--but his trip to Havana restores his natural curiosity and life force.
In this hot Havana, ripe with the fruity smell of sex, Renko keeps his Moscow overcoat on--until an equally idealistic and out-of-place young female cop gets him to loosen up. There's an unusually complex plot, even for the sly strand-spinner Smith. He raises baffling questions: Why would a group of military plotters order illegal lobsters in a fancy restaurant and then not eat them? And his descriptions of Cuban life are dead-on, reminding us on every page what a superb stylist he is. --Dick Adler
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