Gorky Park

Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith 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. “Brilliant…there are enough enigmas within
enigmas within enigmas to reel the mind” (The New Yorker)
in this wonderfully textured vivid look behind the Iron
Curtain. “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).