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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.
- Martin Cruz-Smith
- 1981
Jan 1, 2001 · 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.
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- 1981
- Martin Cruz-Smith
- Paperback
First published in 1981, Gorky Park passes the test of time as a well-crafted and intelligent thriller. Cruz Smith has an almost poetic turn of phrase at times, weaving a complex story into a background of Soviet and US society and mutual mistrust between the superpowers.
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- Martin Cruz Smith
'Gorky Park was my first real introduction to the immense possibilities of the crime novel as work that truly transcends its genre’ Jacob Ross ‘An urgent, contemporary game changer forty years ago, now a historical classic’ Martyn Waites ‘One of the greatest crime novels ever written’ Tim Baker ‘A timeless thriller . . .
- Martin Cruz Smith
- October 28, 2021
- Anniversary Edition
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
First published in 1981, Gorky Park passes the test of time as a well-crafted and intelligent thriller. Cruz Smith has an almost poetic turn of phrase at times, weaving a complex story into a background of Soviet and US society and mutual mistrust between the superpowers.
- Martin Cruz Smith
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Feb 13, 2018 · Gorky Park. Martin Cruz Smith. Simon and Schuster, Feb 13, 2018 - Fiction - 384 pages. 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 ...
