Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's
office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new
phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of
Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro station.
The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful
thinking, for among many Russians Stalin is again popular; the
bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval rating. Decidedly
better than that of Renko, whose lover, Eva, has left him for
Detective Nikolai Isakov, a charismatic veteran of the civil war in
Chechnya, a hero of the far right and, Renko suspects, a killer for
hire. The cases entwine, and Renko's quests become a personal
inquiry fueled by jealousy.
The investigation leads to the fields of Tver outside of Moscow,
where once a million soldiers fought. There, amidst the detritus,
Renko must confront the ghost of his own father, a favorite general
of Stalin's. In these barren fields, patriots and shady
entrepreneurs -- the Red Diggers and Black Diggers -- collect the
bones, weapons and personal effects of slain World War II soldiers,
and find that even among the dead there are surprises.
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