![]() Rudy’s apartment is so clean that there are few leads. Renko being Renko, he ignores his bosses and keeps looking for the person or people who killed Rudy. Renko’s bosses were wondering what the detective was doing with Rudy banker anyway and are happy to just close the case. All their leads-members of different mafiya groups-are pointing the finger at each other. Renko and his partner, Jaak, are working with the banker to Moscow’s various mafiyawhen first one, then another, explosion destroy the banker and the banker’s car-and all of the banker’s records. Renko spends most of this book in Munich and Berlin, so there’s a real chance that his country won’t be there when he returns. And, oh yeah, the Soviet Union is going to collapse any day. A couple of witnesses had been killed after talking to him. ![]() At this point, Renko has been attacked a couple of times. At one point in Red Square, by Martin Cruz Smith, one of Arkady Renko’s temporary partners turns to the battered detective and asks, “Renko, do you ever feel like the plague?” (248*). ![]()
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