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Gorky Park. (novel) Gorky Park is a 1981 crime novel written by American author Martin Cruz Smith. [1][2] Set in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, Gorky Park is the first book in a series featuring the character Arkady Renko, a Moscow homicide investigator. Two subsequent books, Polar Star and Red Square, are also set during the Soviet era.
- Martin Cruz-Smith
- 1981
- Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1) Martin Cruz Smith.
- Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2) Martin Cruz Smith.
- Wolves Eat Dogs (Arkady Renko, #5) Martin Cruz Smith.
- Havana Bay (Arkady Renko, #4) Martin Cruz Smith.
Jan 1, 2001 · Smith is best known for his series of novels featuring Russian investigator Arkady Renko. Gorky Park, published in 1981, was the first of these and was called "thriller of the '80s" by Time Magazine. It became a bestseller and won the Gold Dagger Award from the British Crime Writers' Association. Renko has also appeared in Polar Star, Red ...
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- 1981
- Martin Cruz-Smith
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The Arkady Renko book that started it all: the #1 bestseller Gorky Park, an espionage classic that begins the series, by Martin Cruz Smith, “the master of the international thriller” (The New York Times). It begins with a triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing.
- Martin Cruz Smith
- February 13, 2018
- Paperback
Oct 21, 2013 · A classic revisited: Gorky Park. Ronald Reagan was steering his course to the White House when Gorky Park came out in 1981. Meanwhile, an ageing autocrat called Leonid Brezhnev, with mighty eyebrows, was the General Secretary of the USSR. In the West, we worried about mutually assured nuclear armageddon. The Soviets seemed hard, emotionless ...
Jan 28, 2020 · The “gripping, romantic, and dazzlingly original” (Cosmopolitan) Arkady Renko book that started it all: the #1 bestseller Gorky Park, an espionage classic that begins the series, by Martin Cruz Smith, “the master of the international thriller” (The New York Times).It begins with a triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing.
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Nov 29, 2019 · The Siberian Dilemma (Simon and Schuster, RRP£16.99) is Cruz Smith at his best: ace storytelling with dry, laconic dialogue and a crumpled but courageous hero. While Moscow is lawless enough ...
