this month's book club selection was Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith (Gorky Park), "an Arkady Renko Novel". Renko is a detective who is nominally investigating the mysterious appearance of Stalin in the Moscow subway.
During the course of the investigation he encounters several conspiracies, romances, gets shot in the head, and other "complications."
I am not a big fan of mystery novels, but despite all the Russian names which took a while to track in my mind, it is a readable story. Some of the events were just a bit much to digest, but in all anyone who enjoys the genre will probably like the book.
