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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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2. 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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   Apr 1, 1981 · Share your opinion of this book. If this essentially conventional suspense plot—police procedural with government coverups—were set in Washington, it would add up to well-written, unremarkable entertainment. But Smith (Nightwing) places his thriller in Moscow; and though one isn't always fully convinced of his political authenticity or his ...

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4. fictionfanblog.wordpress.com › 2021/11/22 › gorkyGorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith – FictionFan's Book Reviews

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   Nov 22, 2021 · A Reading Diary Day 1 Off to a mixed start! Three bodies, frozen under the snow in Gorky Park in Moscow, faces and fingertips mutilated to prevent easy identification. Bit of tension between our hero-to-be, Arkady Renko, and the boo-hiss stereotypical baddie from the KGB. The writing is messy with sentences quite often requiring more…

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   Nov 29, 2019 · The Last Hunt (Hodder and Stoughton, RRP£16.99) is the latest volume featuring Captain Benny Griessel of the Hawks, an elite South African police unit. Griessel, although divorced, has a fairly ...

6. archive.nytimes.com › www › booksMURDER IN MOSCOW, ARKADY RENKO ON THE CASE - The New York ...

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   New York: Random House. $13.95. JUST when I was beginning to worry that the large-scale adventure novel might be suffering from a terminal case of the Folletts, along comes ''Gorky Park'' by Martin Cruz Smith, a book that reminds you just how satisfying a smoothly turned thriller can be. Mr. Smith fulfills all of the requirements of the ...

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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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   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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   What is the climax of Gorky Park?

   • The climax of Gorky Park takes us to New York. Irina’s link to the fur dealer Osbourne means that somehow she’s been allowed to leave the Soviet Union. Somehow, Osbourne has arranged via the FBI and KGB for Renko to visit the US. The KGB wants something returned which is valuable to Russia.

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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. Identities can’t be verified.

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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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   Who plays Arkady Renko in Gorky Park?

   • Gorky Park was a tense, atmospheric and memorable crime story with an outstanding detective character – Arkady Renko (played by William Hurt in the film, above). Let’s step back in time for another look. 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.

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8. www.csmonitor.com › Books › Book-ReviewsClassic review: Gorky Park - CSMonitor.com

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   Nov 15, 2009 · Classic review: Gorky Park. "Gorky Park" is a thriller that grapples with one man's search for meaning. Gorky Park By Martin Cruz Smith Random House 384 pp., $13.95. By Karen Steinberg. Nov. 15 ...