Gorky Park
by Martin Cruz Smith · first published 1981
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A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: 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 New York police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fur dealer. Meanwhile, Arkady is falling in love with a beautiful, headstrong dissident for whom he may risk everything... Rich in insight, powerfully written, unrelentingly suspenseful, and impecca
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I've just binge-read all the Martin Cruz Smith Arkady Renko novels - Gorky Park etc. Really well written, great plots and very droll in places.
on “Ask HN: Best books you've read in 2015” ↗…see the world in the same way again. I especially recommend getting the books on tape, the English readers really bring the stories to life. For another excellent series, check out Martin Cruz Smith, Gorky Park (Arkady Renko series).
on “Re-reading the novels of John le Carré” ↗…2005 but I didn't find it until years later). Hugo winner. December 6, by Martin Cruz Smith, a well-known but (in my view) pretty hit-or-miss author, who nevertheless has written a few great novels (Gorky Park being the most famous, but not as good as December 6). Ancillary Justice, the debut novel from Ann Leckie. It was great, although I didn't find the rest of the trilogy had much to add to it. Hugo, Nebula,…
on “Wil Self: In Praise of Difficult Novels” ↗Weirdly, The City & the City reminds me of Martin Cruz Smith's books like Gorky Park set in the Soviet Union (or more recently post-Soviet countries) in that it is a police procedural set in a culture the reader presumably doesn't understand and so the reader is interested in learning…
on “Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read” ↗