Smith, Martin Cruz

American adventurer Jonathan Blair enters the grim world of coal mining in nineteenth-century England in an attempt to find a missing cleric who was engaged to marry the daughter of Blair's sponsor, the wealthy Bishop Hannay.

A high-stakes tale set in Moscow follows the machinations of a group of reactionaries who harbor a nostalgic loyalty to the regime of Joseph Stalin and who plot to create a groundswell for a new dictatorship.

This mystery finds former Moscow investigator Arkady Renko toiling as a second-class seaman on a Russian factory ship, the Polar Star.

Tokyo nightclub owner Harry Niles, an American raised in Japan by missionary parents, comes up with a plan to trick the Imperial Navy into not attacking the United States in 1941, but has a seat reserved on the last flight out of Hong Kong just in case things go wrong--as they usually do.

Chief Homicide Investigator Arkady Renko's investigation of three mutilated bodies reaches to the highest levels of the Communist hierarchy.

Chief Homicide Investigator Arkady Renko's investigation of three mutilated bodies reaches to the highest levels of the Communist hierarchy.