The Man Who Walked Like a Bear, Stuart M. Kaminsky
The Man Who Walked Like a Bear, Stuart M. Kaminsky
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The Man Who Walked Like a Bear

Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrator: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Unabridged: 7 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/24/2021

Synopsis

This "superb mystery-thriller" featuring a Moscow cop reminiscent of Arkady Renko delivers "riveting suspense" (Publishers Weekly).

Porfiry Rostnikov and his wife Sarah have been in love for decades, since the end of World War II. Now the police inspector is by his wife's bedside as she recuperates from a brain operation, when a massive naked man staggers into her hospital room, scared out of his mind, and tries to jump out the window. Rostnikov restrains the bearlike man, trying to calm him. As orderlies arrive to return the escapee to the mental ward, he cries out: "The devil came to devour the factory."

Rostnikov has far more important things on his mind than deciphering the ravings of a lunatic, first among them Sarah's recovery. And of course crime has not stopped while he cares for his wife. Rebels are planting bombs, teenagers are plotting assassinations, and the KGB lurks in every shadow. But despite all these clamors, the man's strange words continue to haunt Rostnikov—and compel him to investigate.

About Stuart M. Kaminsky

Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934-2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. Born in Chicago, he spent his youth immersed in pulp fiction and classic cinema-two forms of popular entertainment which he would make his life's work. After college and a stint in the army, Kaminsky wrote film criticism and biographies of the great actors and directors of Hollywood's Golden Age. In 1977, when a planned biography of Charlton Heston fell through, Kaminsky wrote Bullet for a Star, his first Toby Peters novel, beginning a fiction career that would last the rest of his life.

Kaminsky penned twenty-four novels starring the detective, whom he described as "the anti-Philip Marlowe." In 1981's Death of a Dissident, Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. His other two series starred Abe Lieberman, a hardened Chicago cop, and Lew Fonseca, a process server. In all, Kaminsky wrote more than sixty novels. He died in St. Louis in 2009.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laurie on November 03, 2014

A frequent patron recommended Stuart Kaminsky to me, and this title from 1999 sounded most intriguing. Well-plotted Russian police procedural.......more

Goodreads review by EuroHackie on July 01, 2021

I purchased this book a couple of months ago during a Kindle sale, and when I was searching for something different after my latest library reads, I thought I'd give this one a go. It was darker than I anticipated, and unfortunately plonked me down in the middle of a series, but it was a very satisf......more

Goodreads review by Buck on December 26, 2019

If you are reading this novel without reading the first 5 Chapters of the Porfiry Rostinikov series you will probably be confused, lost, bored and unsatisfied. I say this is the 6th Chapter because I believe each one of Staurt Kaminskiy's series should be viewed as one long novel. Kaminsky amazes me......more

Goodreads review by Mal on August 29, 2022

Award-winning Chicago-based mystery author Stuart Kaminsky wrote sixteen police procedurals featuring an honest Russian detective named Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov. The first of these novels, Death of a Dissident, appeared in 1981 and depicted life in the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev. Subseque......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 02, 2022

"The Man Who Walked Like a Bear" (how about that for a title?) gives Moscow's Inspector Rostnikov and his crew, young Sasha and the machine-like scarecrow Karpo, plenty to work on. Rostnikov, of the square body, brilliant mind, and limp, is up to the challenge and his team is as well. The book opens......more

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