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).
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begins with 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 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).