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Russell’s 2025 Year in Books
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Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith
Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The disgraced investigator Arkady Renko (Gorky Park) has fled Moscow and found work on the Polar Star, a Soviet factory ship in the Gorbachev era. The US and USSR work jointly with American ships trawling the Bering Sea and the Soviet ship processing the catch. Then a woman’s body is hauled up in one of the nets along with tons of fish. It turn
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“That would make a good public service announcement, he mused ruefully: “Don’t use your cell phone while driving. You might not notice the serial killer ahead waiting to shoot you.”
― Death Row
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I have two books going right now: Defending Jacob (audiobook) by Wm. Landay and The Crossing Places (hard cover) by Elly Griffiths. Both are mysteries and I'm enjoying both, but I never recommend a book until I've finished it.
Hi Russell, I just Finished 2 good Books:1. Time will tell > Jeffrey Arher Book 1 of 2,
Book 2 is in the mail to me> The sins of the father.
2. Guilty Wives > James Patterson
What are you reading currently
