Red Square (Arkady Renko #3) by Martin Cruz Smith

Description

Arkady Renko, hero of the #1 bestsellers Gorky Park and Polar Star, returns in a masterly new thriller set in contemporary Moscow and Germany.

The Communist party is dead, the ruble is worthless, and the Russian mafia is the only part of the country that works. After the brutal death of a black-market banker, Arkady butts heads with the ruling elite, the mob bosses.