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Gorky Park
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This novel is ideal for readers who enjoy intelligent, complex thrillers and richly detailed espionage stories. Fans of crime fiction with a strong international setting and those interested in Soviet-era intrigue will find it especially compelling.
Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko's investigation of three mutilated bodies reaches to the highest levels of the Communist hierarchy.
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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 centre: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and the New York City police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fur dealer.
Meanwhile, Renko is falling in love with a beautiful, headstrong dissident for whom he may risk everything. A wonderfully textured, vivid look behind the Iron Curtain, Gorky Park is a tense, atmospheric, and memorable crime story. "Once one gets going, one doesn't want to stop... The action is gritty, the plot complicated, and the overriding quality is intelligence" (The Washington Post).
The first in a classic series, Gorky Park "reminds you just how satisfying a smoothly turned thriller can be" (The New York Times Book Review).
Series: Arkady Renko Novels
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Gorky Park
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 centre: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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ISBN: 9781501177965
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 February 2018
Country: United States
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 137.0mm
Height: 208.0mm
Weight: 318g
Pages: 384
About the Author
Martin Cruz Smith's novels include Gorky Park, Stallion Gate, Nightwing, Polar Star, Stalin's Ghost, Rose, December 6, Tatiana, The Girl from Venice, The Siberian Dilemma, and Independence Square. He was a two-time winner of the Hammett Prize, a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award and Britain's Golden Dagger Award, and a winner of the Premio Piemonte Giallo Internazionale.
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