Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith. In his latest case, Arkady Renko, Cruz Smith's Moscovite policeman, is saddled with questionable sitings of Josef Stalin in an underground station. Although he's convinced it's all a political contrivance, his investigation soon turns into a personal feud with another officer, and Renko finds himself banished from Moscow and in the middle of a sinister series of murders. As always, Martin Cruz Smith captures the spirit of today's Russia, and the character of Renko never fails to satisfy.