Gorky Park

Name: Gorky Park
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Martin Cruz Smith
ISBN: 9781508299882

Author: Martin Cruz Smith

Series: The Arkady Renko Novels

Narrator: Henry Strozier

Unabridged: 14 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 04/30/2019

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Mystery & Detective, Crime

Synopsis

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. 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).

About Martin Cruz Smith

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 is 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. He lives in California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on July 12, 2016

Between watching the ‘80s era Soviet spies in FX’s 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, I’m seeing Russians all over my building. Hopef......more

Goodreads review by Bill on February 27, 2020

Martin Cruz Smith’s Gorky Park (1981) is the first book in series set in the Soviet Union and featuring Arkady Renko, a homicide investigator for the Moscow city police. It is an unusual work, for it gives the reader a unique glimpse into the difficulties facing a detective who is forced to operate......more

Goodreads review by Paul on January 24, 2023

Three bodies are found close to the busy ice skating rink in central Moscow’s Gorky park. They have been buried in the snow. They have been shot, their fingers removed and their faces skinned to make them practically unidentifiable. Arkady Renko of the military police leads the investigation. It’s a......more

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes on July 11, 2020

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 betr......more

Goodreads review by Bill on December 28, 2017

Martin Cruz Smith's novels featuring Chief Investigator Arkady Renko have long been favourites of mine. As there hasn't been a new Renko book since Tatiana in 2013 I thought I'd return (for the fourth time) to the beginning. Yet again I'm still thrilled by the excellent plotting, the well drawn char......more