- Gebundene Ausgabe: 329 Seiten
- Verlag: Random House; Auflage: First Edition (11. Mai 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0679426620
- ISBN-13: 978-0679426622
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 15,5 x 2,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.7 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (69 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 404.275 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Havana Bay: Martin Cruz Smith: Arkady Renko Series, Book 4
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Russian detective Arkady Renko made his debut in Martin Cruz Smith's powerful 1981 novel Gorky Park. An enigmatic and complex character, he made further appearances in Polar Star and Red Square. In Havana Bay Renko has gone to Cuba to identify the body of an old colleague. It seems a simple enough task, but the putrefying corpse is unrecognisable as a human being and the authorities' insistence that he agree with their conclusions serves only to make Renko more stubborn. Soon it becomes apparent that his unexpected arrival is ruffling some powerful feathers. Finding himself in a strange limbo Renko slowly forms a bond with Detective Ofelia Osorio whose revolutionary zeal is tempered by her pragmatic intelligence. Unofficially investigating the case with Ofelia leads Renko to be gradually enmeshed in a world where conflicting cultures and the fallout from past events threaten to destroy what proves to be a deceptive calm. Martin Cruz Smith evokes beautifully the faded, colonial grandeur of Havana and its revolutionary legacy; its sense of a society whose engagement with history has left it outside of time. The pleasures of Havana Bay are of the slow-burning variety, but are all the more satisfying as a result. --Jonathan Crawford
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In this fourth book in Martin Cruz Smith's splendid series, an amiable Irish American gangster explains to Arkady Renko what he and the other 84 wanted Americans hiding out in Cuba do with themselves. "We try to stay alive. Useful. Tell me, Arkady, what are you doing here?" "The same," says Renko--and it's true. His life as a Russian cop has become so bleak and lonely that he takes any opportunity to shake things up, even spending his own savings to fly to Havana when an old colleague is found dead--floating inside an inner tube after night-fishing in Havana Bay. Renko sets out to make himself useful in this shabby, fascinating, haunted country whose inhabitants look on Russians with the cold disdain of survivors of a nasty divorce.
As he did so well in Gorky Park, Smith again makes Renko very much a classic Russian hero in temperament and tradition, but also the eternal outsider. He is at times close to the edge of despair--but his trip to Havana restores his natural curiosity and life force.
In this hot Havana, ripe with the fruity smell of sex, Renko keeps his Moscow overcoat on--until an equally idealistic and out-of-place young female cop gets him to loosen up. There's an unusually complex plot, even for the sly strand-spinner Smith. He raises baffling questions: Why would a group of military plotters order illegal lobsters in a fancy restaurant and then not eat them? And his descriptions of Cuban life are dead-on, reminding us on every page what a superb stylist he is. --Dick Adler
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This is the first of the Arkady Renko novels I have read,and buying it was influenced by the fact that I had spent time exploring Havana and its environs a short time before.
Summoned by an unsigned fax from what turns out to be an old hand at Havana's diminished Russian Embassy, detective Renko travels from mid-winter Moscow to subtropical January in Havana, to investigate the disappearance and death of a KGB operative and one-time associate. Both he and his drowned friend Pribluda are of a mindset unable to come to terms with life in public service in post-communist Russia.
With an almost bumbling manner and persistence, reminiscent of a Slavonic Peter Faulk playing Columbo in the 1970's television series (in a black cashmere coat with a story of its own, in place of a trench-coat), Renko finds himself an unwelcome and unpopular reminder to the Cuban police investigating the gruesome corpse washed up in Havana Bay, of Russia's once domineering influence over their affairs. And a threat to some shadowy individuals with their own agenda for change in this outwardly ramshackle island nation.
Martin Cruz Smith has captured many of the undercurrents that pervade society in modern Havana. They range from a crumbling political, economic and social system (to say nothing of crumbling buildings and crowded tenements), to the moonlighting, hustling, and sex-for-sale, that puts bread on Cuban tables in the way that the state's mediocre salaries do not. He captures too, the camaraderie of Cuban war veterans of Angola and Ethiopia. The pervasiveness of African mysticism and music in Cuban life. And the combination of stoicism and sheer exuberance that shine through in what Castro euphemistically calls the "special times", of no Russian aid and an ongoing US embargo.
These ingredients are skillfully blended into a suspenseful tale that draws us into three hundred plus pages of the intrigue and double-dealing that swirl around a handful of well-drawn characters. Once into it, I found the book hard to put down. I'm sure it will make a good movie too, though it may be a little too cerebral for current Hollywood tastes. All the better if it could be filmed on location. Conjo!
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Havana Bay: In der bisher jüngsten Geschichte um Arkadi Renko schildert Martin Cruz-Smith unverblümt das Leben im real existierenden "Socialismo Tropical" auf Cuba. Dabei werden in packender Eindringlichkeit sowohl die alltäglichen Nöte, als auch die unbändige Lebenslust der Cubaner zum Hintergrund für einen atemlos-spannenden Thriller. Cruz-Smith' schnörkellose und trotzdem raffinierte Sprache vermittelt einen sehr lebhaften Eindruck von den Zuständen auf Cuba und sorgt gleichzeitig dafür, daß "Havana Bay" eben nicht nur ein Krimi, sondern ein echter literarischer Leckerbissen ist.
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Havana Bay: In der bisher jüngsten Geschichte um Arkadi Renko schildert Martin Cruz-Smith unverblümt das Leben im real existierenden "Socialismo Tropical" auf Cuba. Dabei werden in packender Eindringlichkeit sowohl die alltäglichen Nöte, als auch die unbändige Lebenslust der Cubaner zum Hintergrund für einen atemlos-spannenden Thriller. Cruz-Smith' schnörkellose und trotzdem raffinierte Sprache vermittelt einen sehr lebhaften Eindruck von den Zuständen auf Cuba und sorgt gleichzeitig dafür, daß "Havana Bay" eben nicht nur ein Krimi, sondern ein echter literarischer Leckerbissen ist.
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Old theme - new surrounding
Wow ! This Arkady Renko Thriller is really capable to compete with the genius Gorky Park ! After Red Square I was rather afraid Cruz Smith would loose his top theme. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. November 2000 veröffentlicht
Outstanding
This is the first book by Martin Cruz Smith I have read so far and I can only recommend it to everyone else who is interested in detective stories /political thriller. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. August 2000 veröffentlicht
Definitely Not His Best
I have read all of the previous Arkady Renko books by Martin Cruz Smith, as well as the enjoyable change of pace Rose, so I eagerly looking forward to reading this latest... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Juli 2000 von J. Mullin
Enjoyable
An enjoyable, well written and well plotted thriller. The book entertains as well as paints a marvelous picture of modern-day cuba. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Juni 2000 von Coco Pazzo
I'm so confused!
I had to shuffle back and forth when I reached the ending to get what happened finally! This is the fourth novel in the series and it is the least best. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. Juni 2000 von Andrew Francisco
Luminous setting - murky plot
Havana Bay, like many of Martin Cruz Smith's books, works becasue he recreates the milieu of his story so well - and because it is so interesting a setting. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. Mai 2000 von Doug Vaughn
Arkady live, auf neuem altem Terrain
Cruz Smith haz es wieder geschafft ! Sein altes Thema, die totalitäre sowjetische Gesellschaft zu beschreiben, führt er in Havanna mit der gleichen Brillianz weiter. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
Above average mystery thriller
This is the latest installment in a series starring the Moscow investigator Arkady Renko. For those familiar with this series, this book is most similar to the second installment,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Mai 2000 von R. Albin
A Solid Thriller
This was a pretty reasonable book. The plot was good, although the ending was a bit anit-climatic. Like many modern novels, I found this one to have a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. April 2000 von "neutral"
Where will Renko go next?
Renko is one of my favorite characters. Although this isn't the best book in the series, Smith's writing is so sharp and thought-provoking that it really stands apart from 98% of... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. März 2000 von G. Styles
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