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).