Gorky Park - Hardcover

Smith, Martin Cruz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394517482 ISBN 13: 9780394517483

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1981

Synopsis

In contemporary Moscow, Chief Homicide Investigator Arkady Renko unravels the mystery of a triple murder complicated by the shadowy and uncooperative presence of the KGB and by his falling in love

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Review:

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

From the Back Cover:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0394517482
• ISBN 13: 9780394517483
• Binding: Hardcover