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Gorky Park

Martin Cruz Smith

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#1202 of 8,085 books · #346 in Crime & Thriller

Won the Gold Dagger Award (CWA Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year) (1981).

Gorky Park was a #1 bestseller. 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.

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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
ISBN-13
9781501177972
Topics
Murder investigationCold War espionageForbidden love

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