#Arkady Renko

[pier-carlo-universe]

L'enigma siberiano di Martin Cruz Smith: Mistero e Pericolo nelle Ghiacciate Terre della Siberia. Recensione di Alessandria today

Un viaggio intenso e pericoloso tra politica, dissidenza e amore nell'ultima indagine di Arkady Renko

Un viaggio intenso e pericoloso tra politica, dissidenza e amore nell’ultima indagine di Arkady Renko Recensione “L’enigma siberiano” di Martin Cruz Smith è un thriller poliziesco che porta il lettore nelle desolate e gelide lande della Siberia. Protagonista è l’iconico Arkady Renko, investigatore di Mosca, che si ritrova ad affrontare un viaggio pericoloso e personale alla ricerca della…

[rusholme]

Today I finished the most recent Strike book after devouring them all in two months and now I am BEREFT because I have to wait two years minimum for the next book 😢😢😢😢😢

[fedko-brigand]

Alright girls let’s finish this book on the Caucasus. And then start the Grossman novel my CEE book club is reading this month. Or maybe start another book about the Caucasus. Or one of the Arkady Renko novels I’m going to read despite my better wisdom. Every once in a while I think about how the stalls in my university bathrooms had PSA posters advising us not to drip caffeine directly into our eyes.

[autochronic-blog]

For 2024 I am going to write for at least 400 hours and read at least 36 books. I am going to do some of that writing on here to make it a little easier for me.

Here are the books I'm hoping to read in January:

Network Effect (Murderbot 5 by Martha Wells)

Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)

Sula (Toni Morrison)

Red Square (Martin Cruz Smith)

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Friedrich Engels)

The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)

If this list seems really eclectic to you... it is. It's insane. Right now I'm interested in looking at politics from a space where I'm really deep in with some of the work or ideologies people are throwing around as buzzwords.

I also uh, really like science fiction and detective stories.

So my goal here is to kind of wedge my interests to make some more difficult work a little easier to digest (keep in mind that this is an all year goal - engels and sinclair aren't reeeeally tough, 'Socialism: Utopian...' may be less than 100 pages).

I've really liked the other murderbot books, and a friend of mine recommended Gideon to me because we both like 40k. I like the other Arkady Renko books a LOT so Red Square is a little treat for me mixed in here. Sula is an entirely arbitraty pick because I know Toni Morrison is a very good and important writer. Socialism is in there cause I read the communist manifesto last year, and The Jungle is in there because I have strong opinions about modern journalism and it's an important and pioneering book - so I want to kind of explore my own thoughts.

[wife-emailer]

not to get deep abt a pop fiction book but i think the arkady renko series has way more to offer than pop fiction

[thesconesyard]

Thinking of ten things I like ?!? But my mind just went blank! lol

1. Leonard McCoy (Star Trek)

2. General Leia Organa or Wrecker (Star Wars)[sorry too bad it’s a tie]

3. Faramir or Pippin (Lord of the Rings) [again, not sorry it’s a tie]

4. Arkady Renko (Gorky Park and all the sequel novels)

5. Buttons (Our Flag Means Death)

6. Prince Wilhelm (Young Royals)

7. Toph Beifong (ATLA)

8. Chelsea (Life in the Dreamhouse)

9. Sam Rutherford (Lower Decks)

10. Dr. Stephen Maturin (the Aubreyad)

Ok, one more because I snuck in two star treks…

11. Benji Dunn or Ilsa Faust (Mission Impossible)

10 Characters, 10 Fandoms

RULES: List your ten favorite characters from ten separate fandoms, then tag ten people!

Thank you @vvatchword for tagging me!!

A few of my favourite characters are the ones that I hyperfixated on years ago and then daydreamed/wrote a ton of fic about so the versions that exist in my head are probably incredibly different than canon, bare with me on this lmao

in some vague sort of order…

1. Joel (The Last of Us)

2. Atlas (Bioshock)

3. Emily Kaldwin (Dishonored 2)

4. Ed Teach (Our Flag Means Death)

5. Crowley (Good Omens)

6. Yang Xiao Long (RWBY)

7. Cass (Fallout New Vegas)

8. Jotaro Kujo (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure)

9. Vergil (DmC Devil May Cry)

10. Baragon (Godzilla)

i tag uhhh

@stedebonnit @everything-is-by-design @viperra1 @paleoleigh @falloutnewnobody @annihilatius @f0ntainefuturistics @skripsy @firey-the-blaze @iightbringer

[arkadyrenkosroom]

I’ve watched Gorky Park four times in the past two days and decided to draw my favorite Character (Arkady Renko)

It’s not the best, but it’s a quick sketch in which I tried to experiment with new styles and stuff!

[leuiesroom]

I’ve watched Gorky Park four times in the past two days and decided to draw my favorite Character (Arkady Renko)

It’s not the best but it was a quick sketch, I hope you like it!!!

[forexbeginnersworld]

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[pendragonquotes]

I would no more get between a man and his poems than get between a bear and her cubs.

arkady renko, ch14, the siberian dilemma, martin cruz smith

[elrincondelescritornovato]

Clive Cussler, escritor de "Iceberg". He aquí a otro escritor del género de las aventuras inspiradas en la nautica. El mismo en vida, al parecer le gustaba explorar a nivel marino. El, como Robert Ludlum y Martin Cruz Smith, también tiene su equivalente de Burn y de Arkady Renko: Dirk Pitt. Este personaje, en apariencia tuvo su tercer protagonismo en "Iceberg". He aquí algunos enlaces de interés: http://www.lecturalia.com/autor/706/clive-cussler ; https://www.mysterytribune.com/es/12-best-clive-cussler-books-recommended-by-his-thriller-fans/ ; https://www.abc.es/cultura/libros/abci-muere-clive-cussler-autor-bestseller-veinte-aventuras-submarinas-202002281241_noticia.html ; https://www.todostuslibros.com/autor/cussler-clive ; https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Cussler ; . . . . . #elrincondelescritornovato #clıvecussler #clivecusslerfan #clivecusslerofficial #clivecusslerbooks #escritoresamericanos #escritoresnorteamericanos🖋️ #novelistasamericanos #megustaescribir #escribohistorias #escribomilibro #elescritornovato #escritornovato #escritoraficionado #pasiónporlalectura #pasiónporleer #pasiónporescribir #pasiónporlaescritura #devenezuela https://www.instagram.com/p/CJEaMeVFicV/?igshid=1gabcu2kykb18

[rusholme]

should i reread all the Arkady Renko books. should i. that second one where he's on the fishing trawler is sooooooo good i still think abt the fight out on the ice. i kinda miss my tragic greasy chain smoking god's-favourite-victim detective pal who should've been dead 12 times over at least. he gets shot in the head and attacked by a literal bear and he's still alive, despite being a malnourished depressed russian loser.

[fedko-brigand]

I’m now on Arkady Renko book 5. This one is set in 2004 and is the first book to take place in Putin’s Russia. It also starts with a man being thrown off a building LOL.

I’m a little disappointed we only got one book in 90s Russia but that one was also probably my favorite so far. They’re all not great, mind you, but better than most thriller novels by a bit.

[infactforgetthepark]

[Free eBook] Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith [Award-Nominated Russia Police Procedural Political Mystery/Thriller]

Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith, a recipient of the Gold Dagger Award and multiple finalist for the Edgar Award, is a 6th novel in the Arkady Renko series of contemporary police procedural mystery/political crime thrillers, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Simon & Schuster UK.

This is the featured Free Book of the Week in the iTunes UK store, and was a finalist for the 2007 Hammett Prize named in honour of classic noir author Dashiell Hammett. The long-running series is set throughout Russia and the former Soviet Union from the Cold War 1980s and onward, starring a chief investigator of the Soviet police force and his changing fortunes throughout the decades, often touching upon historical events and political topics of the day.

This installment is set during the modern Putin era, during which he has been relegated to investigating crackpot reports of ghost sightings on the Moscow subway, which nevertheless lead him to a string of murders which may or may not have their roots in the Chechen War.

Offered in the UK only, available at multiple retailers.

Free for a limited time @ Amazon, Kobo, iTunes, Google Play (looks like the freebie was available in the UK only when I spot-checked assorted regional stores, YMMV, and some retailers may only provide the freebie in certain countries)

Description Once the Chief Investigator of the Moscow Militsiya, Arkady Renko is now a pariah of the Prosecutor's Office and has been reduced to investigating reports of late-night subway riders seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin. Part political hocus-pocus, part wishful thinking - even the illusion of the bloody dictator has a higher approval rating than Renko. After being left by his lover for a more popular and successful detective, Renko's investigation becomes a jealousy-fuelled quest leading to the barren fields of Tver, where millions of soldiers fought, and lost their lives. Here, scavengers collect bones, weapons and paraphernalia off the remains of those slain, but there's more to be found than bullets and boots.

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Chifir

Chifir (Russian: чифи́рь, romanized: čifir', or alternatively, чифи́р) is an exceptionally strong tea, associated with and brewed in Soviet and post-Soviet detention facilities such as gulags and prisons.

Etymology

The etymology is uncertain but is thought to come from the word "chikhir'" (чихирь) meaning a strong Caucasian wine, or a Siberian word for wine that has gone off and become sour and acidic.[1]

Preparation

Chifir is typically prepared with 5–8 tablespoons (50–100 ml) of loose tea (or tea bags) per person poured on top of the boiled water. It is brewed without stirring – at least until the leaves drop to the bottom of the cup. During the brewing process, the leaves start to pour adenine and guanine into the water, which does not happen during traditional tea-making. Sugar is sometimes added; the nature of the brew tends to result in a bitter flavor.

It is to be drunk slowly, otherwise it may cause vomiting.Ultimately, making chifir involves brewing a great deal of black tea and for a long time. It may be left to brew overnight and drunk either hot or cold.

In popular culture

Irina Ratushinskaya describes the brewing of narcotically strong chifir as a banned activity sometimes undertaken by prisoners, in her memoir of her years as a political prisoner, Grey Is The Colour Of Hope.

In Vasily Aksyonov's novel Ozhog ('The Burn'), the convict Shilo makes chifir in a tushonka tin and gives it to Tolya von Steinbock. Tolya falls into a blissful, dreamlike state, but is awake enough to overhear an escape plan being hatched.

In the Gabriele Salvatores-directed film Deadly Code, the character played by John Malkovich prepares and describes chifir to the young Kolyma

In the novel Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith (1981) the main character Arkady Renko drinks chifir on a train with workers on their way to a work camp.

Several characters drink chifir in The Kolyma Tales, a collection of short stories about Gulag life by former Gulag prisoner Varlam Shalamov.

In Jules Verne's novel In Search of the Castaways when the heroes visit Australia, Paganel requests tea made according to local custom, and is served a drink made by boiling half a pound of tea in a litre of water for four hours. Shalamov mentions this in his aforementioned stories to demonstrate chifir' is not a new invention.

See also

Sa'idi tea, a somewhat similar beverage (essentially a weaker grade, but consumed in larger quantities) drunk in Upper Egypt and among Sa'idi people elsewhere

Zavarka, concentrated tea used in brewing tea from a Samovar

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[the-ukrainian-giraffe]

What are you reading?

Currently, I'm taking a break from "The Devil in the White City" to read "Gorky Park" at my son's insistence. I have never known such a young fan of Martin Cruz Smith but he takes the Arkady Renko novels very seriously.

My wife tells me he's always liked Russian stuff so, maybe we shift him to Ukrainian things now that he has a Ukrainian "Pops".