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Book Review: Stalin’s Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith
Simon and Shuster New York 2007, 332 pp.
 
In Wolves Eat Dogs, Martin Cruz Smith taught us about deliberate nuclear poisoning and the kind of lingering death which was actually used to kill a Russian defector in London (and has since led to some very harsh diplomatic activity between Great Britain and Moscow as the British try to extradite the people they think killed someone on British soil and Putin’s government continues to protect the accused assassins).
 
Now, in Stalin’s Ghost, he portrays a further level of official corruption infecting the new Russian autocracy as the institutions of Soviet repression reassert themselves within money-oriented corrupt ties that extend deep into the police and the prosecutors.
 
Smith always writes well and he has a knack for capturing you with a dozen little details and then keeping your interest throughout the mystery.
 
Stalin’s Ghost offers a different perspective on the new Russian semi-dictatorship as well as a pretty good mystery story at the same time.
 
I read everything Martin Cruz Smith writes and I have never been disappointed.

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