Gorky Park (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Martin William Smith
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Plot: Detective and mystery
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: Moscow and New York City
- Principal Characters: Arkady Renko, Major Pribluda, Pasha Pavlovich, Andrei Iamskoy, Zoya, Irina Asanova, John Osborne, William Kirwill
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: 1970’s, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Adultery, Detectives, Corruption, Espionage or spies, Smuggling or smugglers, Russia or Russian people, Moscow, Soviet Union or Soviets
- Locales: Moscow, Russia
The Novel
Gorky Park is set in the Moscow of the 1970’s, during the Leonid Brezhnev era, when the Soviet Union was still intact and viewed as a major threat to the United States. The main character, Arkady Renko, is a superb homicide investigator who is confronted with a baffling case: the murder of three people in Gorky Park—an unlikely setting for such a crime because it is so public and would seem to invite immediate detection. Yet the bodies are frozen, and even more strangely, their fingertips have been removed to destroy their fingerprints and their faces have...
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