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Title	:	Polar Star (Arkady Renko #2)
Author	:	Martin Cruz Smith
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 366 pages
Published	:	June 13th 1990 by Ballantine Books (first published June 13th 1989)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Cultural. Russia. Crime

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In the first major case of his literary career, Gorky Park, Moscow detective Arkady Renko antagonized too many powerful people. As a consequence, he lost his job and his Communist party membership and was shuffled off into oblivion. He then disappeared from view for eight years before returning in Polar Star.

Renko's fallen about as far as a man possibly can. From being at the top of his profession as a criminal investigator, he's now working on the slime line on a Russian factory fishing ship in the Bering Sea. It's a joint Russian-American venture in which American trawlers catch the fish and dump them on the deck of the Polar Star. The crew on the factory ship then process the fish and freeze them so that they can ultimately get to the marketplace. It's a dirty, disgusting job and freezing cold to boot. Working on the slime line is a job for men who have fallen about as far as they possibly can.

Renko has been working the line in obscurity for quite some time, but then one day, one of the American trawlers lowers a net full of fish onto the deck of the Polar Star and caught up in the net is the body of a sexy young woman named Zina who had worked on the factory ship. The woman had last been seen standing by the rail of the ship during a dance which had been attended by the ship's crew along with some crew members from one of the American trawlers.

The ship's captain knows that Renko was once a top criminal investigator and so pulls him off the slime line and asks him to investigate the death. All of the Powers That Be are hoping that Renko will come up with a simple explanation that will not embarrass anyone other than the dead woman. The best verdict would be that she fell accidentally into the sea or, in the alternative, that she committed suicide and was then caught up in the trawler's net.

It's clear to Renko, though, that the woman was murdered and he is determined to get to the truth of the matter. Again, that's going to antagonize a lot of people, some for political reasons and others for reasons far more sinister, and before long, Renko's life will be in danger. The Polar Star is a large ship, but it's not that big and there are not that many places to hide. If he's going to complete his mission, Renko is going to have to be very careful and very, very lucky.

I really enjoyed this book a lot. Renko is a very intriguing and sympathetic protagonist, and there are a lot of other interesting and well-drawn characters as well. The mystery is compelling and there's a lot of tension throughout the story. Smith excels at describing the setting, which is at once bleak and beautiful. One also learns a great deal about the commercial fishing industry in this book; happily I'm having pork chops for dinner tonight.

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Original Title:	Polar Star
ISBN:	0345367650 (ISBN13: 9780345367655)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Arkady Renko #2
Characters:	Slava Bukovsky, Karp Korobetz, Natasha Chaikovskaya, Viktor Marchuk, Susan Hightower, Fedor Volovoi, Anton Hess, Coletti, Kolya Mer, George Morgan, Skiba, Slezko, Ridley, Mike (Mikhail), Arkady Renko
Setting:	Bering Sea

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The sequel to Gorky Park is more entertaining than the original.The setting aboard a factory fishing ship in the Bering Sea is memorable.



In the first major case of his literary career, Gorky Park, Moscow detective Arkady Renko antagonized too many powerful people. As a consequence, he lost his job and his Communist party membership and was shuffled off into oblivion. He then disappeared from view for eight years before returning in Polar Star. Renko's fallen about as far as a man possibly can. From being at the top of his profession as a criminal investigator, he's now working on the slime line on a Russian factory fishing ship

'Polar Star', #2 in the Inspector Arkady Renko series, is a terrific story! I think it way more superior to the first book in the series, Gorky Park. It can be a standalone read, but Renko's backstory, which is referred to occasionally in this novel, is described in its entirety in the first novel. Missing from this narrative is exactly why Renko, an educated man who was an excellent Moscow police detective, is now on the run and hiding from the close attention of various Soviet political

Every bit as good as I remembered. Highly recommended! I worship MCS for his grittily vivid scenes, lovable shady characters, and wonderfully surreal landscapes. (Not to mention his Russian soul!) If you haven't read Gorky Park, read that one first! As usual, Arkady Renko is reluctant to begin a murder investigation--this time into the death of a popular young woman on board the Soviet fish-processing factory ship, the Polar Star.As he discovers one shady operation after another--smuggling,

This is the second book in the Arkady Renko series and I have to say I found it a bit slow. As mentioned above, the whole book takes place on a Soviet Factory ship in the Bearing Sea, where American ships bring their fish to be processed rather than returning to a factory on American soil. However, there are only so many people on said ship and Renko pursues this murder with an almost bulldoggish determination that at 384 pages becomes almost tedious. Smith does have one advantage that I admire

Polar Star is set in the microcosm of a Soviet fish-factory ship working the fog-shrouded waters of the Arctic Sea. The story begins as a member of the crew is dredged up in one of the fishing nets. Arkady Renko, a former detective exiled to the gulag as a reward for previous successes, is called up (unwillingly for all concerned) from the "slime line" to find a harmless explanation for the accident.The book is satisfying as a classic murder mystery. It's even more interesting as an exploration