Moscow lies deep under snow, and Arkady Renko is on the trail of a sus pect police officer, a former Black Beret who served with glory agains t the insurgency in Chechnya. But proof of the man's corruption is pro ving more elusive to gather. Then Renko's unpopular boss calls him in to handle a delicate matter: passengers riding the last metro of the n ight have reported seeing the ghost of Stalin waving to them from the platform edge. Every night at the same time, regular as clockwork. Mea nwhile, his adopted son, Zhenya has disappeared, and his girlfriend, E va, has reignited an affair with the very officer Arkady is investigat ing. Renko is assigned the help of an expert Stalinist, a decorated wa r hero and chess grandmaster. Not everyone, it seems, likes the fact t hat Stalin is dead...Not only an original and deeply humane thriller, "Stalin's Ghost" is also a wonderful evocation of the...
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