In the second installment in the Arkady Renko series from internationally bestselling author Martin Cruz Smith, Renko rises against the Soviet bureaucracy in a complex international web and discovering more than he bargained for.

Arkady Renko, former Chief Investigator of the Moscow City Prosecutor’s Workplace, made way too many foes and shed the favor of his party. After a self-imposed exile in Siberia, Renko toils around the ‘slime series’ of a factory ship in the Bering Ocean. However when an ambitious Georgian woman comes up with the day’s capture, the symptoms of murder are undeniable. Up against the Soviet bureaucracy within a complex international web, Renko must again end up being the obsessed, devoted cop he was previously. And in doing so, he discovers much more than he bargained for.