Gorky Park
by Smith, Martin Cruz
Gorky Park is the first book by author Martin Cruz Smith and it introduces his homicide detective Arkady Renko. A triple murder in Moscow’s famous Gorky Park leads detective Renko into a battle with the powerful agencies of the KGB, FBI and New York police to undercover the culprit. Smith had been publishing novels for a decade leading up to the publication of Gorky Park, which became instantly successful, and led eight subsequent books in the Renko series.
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Published by Random House in 1981.
FIRST EDITION is stated below Random House number line "2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3" on the copyright page. Boards are white with author's initials on the front cover and black cloth spine with silver lettering. Dust jacket has three reviews on the back by P.D. James, Peter Matthiessen, and Harrison Salisbury.
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