From Martin Cruz Smith, the internationally bestselling author of Gorky Park, comes a secret that reaches international proportions within this entertaining fourth title in the Arkady Renko series.

Past Inspector for the Moscow Militsiya, Arkady Renko, is summoned to Cuba to identify a liquefying corpse, dragged in the greasy waters of Havana Bay. Renko finds himself in a decaying nation, the final recess of Communism—a location where Russia is normally despised, exotic rituals consider precedence and unforeseen danger meets bewildering contradictions. After a harrowing encounter that has still left Renko in the verge of suicide, this secret leads him on the path of deceit that gets to international proportions, and provides him a reason to relish his personal life again.