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| Book: | Gorky Park: A Novel |
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| Author: | Martin Cruz Smith |
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| Publisher: | Ballantine Books |
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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 New York police as he performs the impossible—and tries to stay alive doing it.
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Martin Cruz Smith’s bestselling mystery novel seemed ideally cast for this movie version, but director Michael Apted and the usually reliable writer Dennis Potter couldn’t solve the problem of taking the story from the page to the screen. William Hurt plays Renko, a Cold War-era Moscow police detective who must cope with both crooks and Communist party protocol as he tries to solve a murder case in the middle of one of Moscow’s public parks that leaves three faceless corpses. The strands of the mystery involve corruption, American money, and the fur trade and,…
