Renko abides - stalwart, honest and dogged. Stalin also lingers, in the new Russia many look back to the certainties of his rule and his victories in war. okay, so a few innocents died, bad things were done on both sides. But why is Stalin making appearances in a Moscow subway? What's it got to do with two new war veteran detectives and their political ambitions, and the heroic battle they fought at a bridge in Chechnya? Oh, yeah, Arkady's lover, Eva, left him for one of them. Is he driven by jealousy, or justice? Feck it, why not both?