set in Russia circa 2005. It is the sixth installment in the Arkady Renko series, which began with the iconic novel “Gorky Park” published 26 years earlier1. Let’s delve into the intriguing details: Summary: The ghost of Joseph Stalin has been haunting the stations of the Moscow Metro. Detective-Investigator Arkady Renko, perpetually in hot water with his superiors, is assigned to the case. However, he receives heavy hints to quash it. Instead, he discovers a peculiar connection between the sightings of Stalin’s ghost and a string of murders involving a group of Chechen War veterans1.