Title: John LeCarre move over!
Product review: Cruz Smith's best since Gorky Park. Protaganist, Arkady Renko, wounded though he is, manages to rise to the occasion in his pursuit of identifying a fellow Russian pulled from the waters of Havana Bay. Set in today's Cuba, with its beauty and crumbling decay wrought by years of communism, our hero teams up with a beautiful Cuban policewoman and becomes embroiled in a world where Russians are despised. Throw the rituals of Santeria into the mix and you have a recipe for murder, deceit, and perhaps reasons for Arkady to get his life back on track. A wonderful read with great characters!
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