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Gorky Park (Arkady Renko #1)

Martin Cruz Smith

Paperback | Pages: 433 pages

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Title	:	Gorky Park (Arkady Renko #1)
Author	:	Martin Cruz Smith
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 433 pages
Published	:	February 12th 1982 by Ballantine Books (first published 1981)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Thriller. Crime. Cultural. Russia. Suspense

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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 performs the impossible--and tries to stay alive doing it.

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Original Title:	Gorky Park
ISBN:	0345298349 (ISBN13: 9780345298348)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Arkady Renko #1
Characters:	Irina Asanova, Major Pribluda, Zoya Renko, Pasha Pavlovich, John Osborne, Feodor Golodkin, Andrei Iamskoy, Misha Mikoyan, Natasha Mikoyan, Sergei Fet, James Kirwill, William Kirwill, Yuri Viskov, Hans Unmann, Kostia Borodin, Valerya Davidova, Ilya Nikitin, Arkady Renko
Setting:	Russian Federation Moscow(Russian Federation) Russia …more New York City, New York(United States) Staten Island, New York(United States) …less
Literary Awards:	CWA Gold Dagger Award for Fiction (1981), The CWA Dagger of Daggers Nominee (2005)

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There are not many road signs in Russia, you know. He laughed. If you dont know where the road goes, you shouldnt be on it.' Arkady RenkoWhen Gorky Park was first published in 1981, it was immediately banned in the then Soviet Union because of its apt depiction of everyday Soviet life. Though Ive never been to Russia (my only immersion into the culture was the year I spent trying unsuccessfully to learn the language), its image is intricately linked with the glamorous Moscow of the film, The

I've been wanting to read this book for a very long time so it was disappointing t0 find that it wasn't quite as enjoyable as I'd hoped. Some characters were well fleshed out and Smith was great at describing the locale, making it easy for readers to visualize their surroundings, be they a Russian General's dacha or a dingy New York hotel room. What did bother me was its pacing and it's labyrinthine conspiracy where it seems that almost everybody was colluding with everyone else. For a book with

A murder mystery story mostly set in Moscow. Three bodies have been found frozen and faceless under the snow in Gorky Park. Arkady Renko of the Moscow militia sets out to investigate. It turns out this case is far more complicated than usual and Renko soon finds himself entangled in a complex web of conspiracy, corruption, espionage, murder and the smuggling of s [spoiler removed].I know the 1983 film base on the novel quite well. Therefore I knew who dunnit (and why) prior to reading the book.

A 1980 Russian investigator is directed to solve a crime. He'd rather dump it on the KGB; it smells political. But no, they're leaving him holding the bag...The mystery is too complicated. The plot takes too many irrelevant turns. The romance makes no sense. And yet...perfect. Not a typical mystery plot at all; much more like a shamamic journey than anything else. I loved the ending.

Well. Sigh. I'm deciding what to write. Ok. Truth.I'm disappointed with 'Gorky Park', book one in the Soviet Union's Inspector Arkady Renko series. Oh, it's a fine inventive entertainment for a mystery, with a lot of twists and near death escapes, tons of corrupt cops and officials, and so many betrayals and hidden motives I am amazed the body count wasn't higher considering the undrained swamps that Renko wades through in not just Russia, but also in New York City. In Russia, many different

Between watching the 80s era Soviet spies in FXs The Americans, and tensions running high over Russian activity in the Ukraine, it almost seems like Cold War never ended. In fact, because of a European consulting firm being brought into my workplace, Im seeing Russians all over my building. Hopefully things dont hit the point where I have to take to the hills and go all Red Dawn. Wolverines!!With all this red scare stuff going on, it seemed like a great to time revisit this old favorite. Its the

While I didn't always love the experience of reading this novel, I am glad to have read it, if only for the fictional glimpse of Soviet Russia during the Cold War. I didn't enjoy how drawn out the book became after such an intriguing start. But then, I was only expecting a police procedural set in Russia. This novel was much, much more -- a cat and mouse game, a story of fugitives and bandits, a view of Soviet "justice," a story of torture, a social commentary on America by a Russian narrator, a