Three Stations

Three Stations  
Author(s) Martin Cruz Smith
Country United States
Language English
Series Arkady Renko # 7
Genre(s) Crime novel
Publisher Simon & Schuster, Macmillan
Publication date 10 August 2010
Media type Print (Hardcover/Softcover)
Pages 256 pp (hardback edition)
ISBN 0-7432-7674-4
Preceded by Stalin's Ghost

Three Stations is a crime novel by Martin Cruz Smith set in Russia circa 2010. It is the seventh novel to feature Detective-Investigator Arkady Renko, published 29 years after the initial novel of the Renko series, Gorky Park.[1][2]

Plot

The title refers to the three Moscow rail stations, Leningrad Station, Kazansky Station and Yaroslavl Station situated on Komsomolskaya Square, also often referred to as Three Stations Square.[3]

A teenage mother arrives at Three Stations, but her baby is stolen. The only person to help her is Zhenya, the young chess hustler who is a sometime ward of Arkady Renko, the police investigator. Meanwhile, Arkady tries to prove that the overdose death of a young prostitute in the station is nothing of the sort, and is suspended for his trouble. A billionaire casino owner with financial troubles offers to hire Arkady, but the latter can trust no-one. Thugs, dwarves, ballerinas, Central Asians and a gang of homeless tweens complicate matters still further.

References

  1. ^ Steinhauer, Olen, The New York Times (August 12, 2010). Moscow Express
  2. ^ Weinman, Sarah Los Angeles Times (August 17, 2010). Book review: 'Three Stations' by Martin Cruz Smith
  3. ^ See, Carolyn, Washington Post (September 3, 2010). "Three Stations," the new thriller by Martin Cruz Smith, author of "Gorky Park"

External links

The novels of Martin Cruz Smith
The Romano Grey Series
Gypsy in Amber (1971)  • Canto for a Gypsy (1972)
The Inquisitor Series
(as Simon Quinn)
The Devil in Kansas (1974)  • The Last Time I Saw Hell (1974)  • Nuplex Red (1974)  • His Eminence, Death (1974)  • The Midas Coffin (1975)  • Last Rites for the Vulture (1975)
The Arkady Renko Series
Gorky Park (1981)  • Polar Star (1989)  • Red Square (1992)  • Havana Bay (1999)  • Wolves Eat Dogs (2004)  • Stalin's Ghost (2007)  • Three Stations (2010)
Other novels
The Indians Won (1970)  • Analog Bullet (1972)  • Inca Death Squad (1972) (as Nick Carter)  • The Devil's Dozen (1973) (as Nick Carter)  • The Human Factor (1975) (as Simon Quinn)  • The Wilderness Family (1975) (as Martin Quinn)  • Nightwing (1977)  • Ride for Revenge (as Jake Logan)  • Stallion Gate (1986)  • Rose (1996)  • December 6 (2002)