Gorky Park: A Novel
(Libby/OverDrive eBook)
Author
Contributors
Smith, Martin Cruz Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 1
Published
Random House Publishing Group , 2011.
Status
Available from Libby/OverDrive
Available Platforms
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Description
"Brilliant...One of the best books of the season."ASSOCIATED PRESSA 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 New York police as he performs the impossible--and tries to stay alive doing it.From the Paperback edition.
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Published Reviews
Library Journal Reviews
I love tough-guy stories; I read them all the time, especially when I'm avoiding the topic of weddings. Er, my wedding. Gorky Park is the first novel of the Arkady Renko series, and it whomps you across the head with a combination of detective fiction and Soviet-era espionage. I came to it after reading Polar Star, Havana Bay, and Wolves Eat Dogs. Each (numbers two, four, and five in the series) is pretty masterful, and all have common elements of a tough-guy story: Our Hero (if he were a cowboy, his hat would be white) is up against it, he's got some innocent chick on the hook, and he doesn't know whom to trust. Renko has all that in spades, and GP immediately confronts readers with three mutilated corpses. Then the KGB arrives, so it's cool. Wait, they don't take the case? Well, jeez, OK then. Chief Investigator Renko starts with the normal procedural stuff like canvassing locals and digging into unsolved missing-persons files before settling on...audio tapes. Yeah! Audio tapes will solve the case! Or, wait, who's that older American guy? And why is he kicking the crap out of Renko? Things get WEIRDER, eventually amping up to a long-ass fever dream, all swamps and double crosses and murder and vodka. Plus, Renko is imprisoned on a farm, and there's a huge fire, and DUDE WTF IS GOING ON CAN SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE THIS STOP AND EXPLAIN IT TO ME? And, suddenly, they're on Staten Island? Um, check please? Part Mr. Majestyk, part Soviet Spenser for Hire, Arkady Renko will punch your lights out and then share his vodka with you.—Douglas Lord, "Books for Dudes," BookSmack! 8/5/10 (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Smith, M. C. (2011). Gorky Park: A Novel . Random House Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smith, Martin Cruz. 2011. Gorky Park: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smith, Martin Cruz. Gorky Park: A Novel Random House Publishing Group, 2011.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Smith, M. C. (2011). Gorky park: a novel. Random House Publishing Group.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Smith, Martin Cruz. Gorky Park: A Novel Random House Publishing Group, 2011.
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