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Book Review of Polar Star (Arkady Renko, Bk 2)

Polar Star (Arkady Renko, Bk 2)
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He has made too many enemies. He lost his part membership. Once Moscow's top criminal investigator, he now toils in the obscurity on a Russian factory ship working with American trawlers in the middle of the Bering Sea.
But when an adventurous female crewmember is picked up dead with the day catch, Arkady Renko is ordered by his captain to investigate an "accident" that has all the marks of murder.
Up against the celebrated Soviet bureaucracy once more, Renko must again become the obsessed,dedicated cop he was in Gorky Park and solve a chilling mystery with international complications,in the vivid, heart-pounding thriller that never lets up.