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Plot Summary. The first of eight novels in American author Martin Cruz Smith's popular crime series starring Soviet homicide detective Arkady Renko, Gorky Park (1981) concerns the mysterious and gruesome deaths of three individuals found at a Moscow amusement park. In 1983, director William Apted adapted the book into an Edgar Award-winning ...
Summary of Story Points Over Chapters Chapters 1-5. The novel opens with the discovery of the bodies in Gorky Park, setting the stage for Renko's involvement in the case. As he begins his investigation, he encounters various obstacles, including interference from higher authorities and the presence of foreign interests in the case. Chapters 6-10
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
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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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 ...
Book 3 included. Red Square (Arkady Renko, #3) / Gypsy In Amber. by Martin Cruz Smith. 4.21 · 24 Ratings · 3 editions. Back from exile in the hellish reaches of the Sovi…. Want to Read. Rate it: Arkady Renko, a chief homicide inspector for the prosecutor’s office, in Moscow, Russia: Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1), Polar Star (Arkady Renko ...
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Summary. PDF Cite. Gorky Park is set in the Moscow of the 1970’s, during the Leonid Brezhnev era, when the Soviet Union was still intact and viewed as a major threat to the United States. The ...