Tatiana - Arkady Renko, Bk 8 Author:Martin Cruz Smith The fearless investigative reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire, Grisha Grigorenko, is shot and buried with the trappings due a lord. The iconic Russian investigator Arkady Renko, cynical, analytical, and quietly subversive, delves into Tatiana's past and ... more »a surreal world of wandering dunes and amber mines. Arkady's only link is a notebook written in the personal code of a translator whose body is found in the dunes. His only hope of decoding the symbols lies in Zhenya, a teenage chess hustler.« less