{"product_id":"9780330444934-secondhand-stalins-ghost","title":"Stalin's Ghost","description":"Moscow lies deep under snow, and Arkady Renko is called in to handle a delicate matter: passengers riding the last metro of the night have reported seeing the ghost of Stalin on the platform edge. Not everyone, it seems, likes the fact that Stalin is dead . . .  But in the midst of a blizzard nothing is as it first appears to be. Renko's girlfriend Eva and his adopted son, Zhenya, seem to be slipping into danger. The owner of a matrimonial agency wants her husband killed. An innocent `Russian Bride' employs a garrotte. A chess grandmaster wanders into Renko's life and leads him into the line of fire. Diehard Communists gather to sing along with Stalin. `Red Diggers' uncover secrets buried for half century in a desolate forest and Renko discovers ghosts that have been waiting for him all his life . . .  As Russia swings more and more to the right, Renko is more and more out of step. Not only an original and deeply humane thriller,  Stalin's Ghost  is also a wonderful evocation of the emerging New Russia.  Praise for Martin Cruz Smith:  `Cruz Smith not only constructs grittily realistic plots, he also has a gift for characterisation of which most thriller writers can only dream'   Mail on Sunday","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46827172462811,"sku":"9780330444934-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/04ff62e6-b919-4787-bf0c-6fc4b8d09b13.jpg?v=1748272993","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780330444934-secondhand-stalins-ghost","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}