Gorky Park - Hardcover

Smith, Martin Cruz

4.04

67,560 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002222787 ISBN 13: 9780002222785

Publisher: The Harvill Press, 1981

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A thriller featuring Chief Investigator Arkady Renko who is investigating the discovery of three corpses in a Moscow park. But why have the trio been mutilated, and why have they been buried in Gorky Park? From the author of HAVANA BAY and RED SQUARE.

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PRAISE FOR GORKY PARK

"Reminds you just how satisfying a smoothly turned thriller can be." -The New York Times Book Review

"Brilliant . . . enough enigmas within enigmas within enigmas to reel the mind." -The New Yorker

"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

"An unbelievable achievement . . . vivid, witty . . . completely fascinating." -The Boston Herald

"Gripping, romantic, and dazzlingly original." -Cosmopolitan

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When Arkady Renko, Senior Investigator in the Moscow Prosecutor's Office, arrives in Gorky Park to examine the three mutilated corpses found frozen in the snow, he discovers that he is not the first investigator on the scene. Major Pribluda of the KGB has been there before him – trampling all over the site and destroying the evidence...

"I can't remember when I have been as excited by a new crime novel as I was by Martin Cruz Smith's powerful, compassionate and original novel"
P. D. JAMES

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