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1. www.leeds.ac.uk › alumni-community › docLeeds Alumni Book Club - University of Leeds

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   Alumni community. Leeds Alumni Book Club. We know that many of our alumni love to read. That’s why we’ve set up the Leeds Alumni Book Club. It’s the perfect way for you to talk about books with fellow alumni around the world. Join our free book club.

2. crimefictionlover.com › 2013 › 10A classic revisited: Gorky Park | Crime Fiction Lover

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   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 ...

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Gorky_Park_(novel)Gorky Park (novel) - Wikipedia

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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.

   • Author: Martin Cruz-Smith

   • Publish Year: 1981

4. www.goodreads.com › book › showGorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1) by Martin Cruz Smith - Goodreads

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   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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   • Publish Year: 1981

   • Author: Martin Cruz-Smith
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5. www.lib.cam.ac.uk › whats › murderous-inspirationsMurderous Inspirations: Crime Novels That Inspire Crime Writers

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   Book your ticket here We are celebrating National Crime Reading Month with a special online event! From a Golden Age classic to a foundational spy thriller and a legendary police procedural, this session will see crime writers Fiona Veitch Smith, Abir Mukherjee and Nadine Matheson discuss seminal crime novels Murder Must Advertise, Gorky Park, and Prime Suspect.

6. books.google.com › books › aboutGorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith - Google Books

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   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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   When was Gorky Park written?

   • 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 Square, Havana Bay, Wolves Eat Dogs, Stalin's Ghost, and Three Stations.

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   Was Gorky Park a good book?

   • Gorky Park was a major best-seller, vaulting Smith to fame after a decade as a moderately successful professional author. The novel was praised for the authenticity with which it depicted life in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was adapted into a successful 1983 film of the same name.

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   Where was Gorky Park filmed?

   • Though shot in Finland and Sweden, the 1983 film Gorky Park captured the atmosphere of the book very well. William Hurt portrayed Renko excellently, under the direction of Michael Apted, with Dennis Potter’s screenplay. Lee Marvin appeared as Jack Osbourne and Brian Dennehy was a convincing William Kirwill.

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   What happened in Gorky Park?

   • It’s early spring in Moscow, and the book opens with the discovery of three bodies in Moscow’s famous Gorky Park – two men and a woman. They’ve been shot at close range, their fingertips pruned and faces sliced off with a rough-bladed knife.

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8. www.goodreads.com › author › listBooks by Martin Cruz Smith (Author of Gorky Park) - Goodreads

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   Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1) by Martin Cruz Smith 4.04 avg rating — 68,323 ratings — published 1981 — 68 editions