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123 reviews
Martin Cruz Smith

Ballantine Books, 2008

John LeCarre move over!
Cruz Smith's best since Gorky Park. Protaganist, Arkady Renko, wounded though he is, manages to rise to the occasion in his pursuit of identifying a fellow Russian pulled from the waters of Havana Bay. Set in today's Cuba, with its beauty and crumbling decay wrought by years of communism, our hero teams up with a beautiful Cuban policewoman and becomes embroiled in a world where Russians are ...

December 6

78 reviews
Martin Cruz Smith

UnabridgedBBC Audiobooks America, 2002

"The gaijin is always 'It.'"
The days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor form the basis of this thriller focused on an American who lived in Japan from birth to his late teens, then returned ten years later--after the Nanking Massacre but before the United States entered the war. The son of missionaries who often left him in the care of others while they traveled, Harry Niles, as an adolescent, always ...

Red Square

30 reviews
Martin Cruz Smith

Random House, 1992

Back in the USSR
Martin Cruz Smith is a former journalist and magazine editor. "Red Square" is his third novel - after " Gorky Park " and "Polar Star" - to feature Arkady Renko and was first published in 1992. Renko, the hero, works as an Investigator with Moscow's militia - more or less the standard police force - and has something of a chequered career. Never a truly 'practising' member of the Party, Renko ...

Wolves Eat Dogs: An Arkady Renko Novel

77 reviews
Martin Cruz Smith

Large Print Press, 2005

Unmatched
Martin Cruz Smith never lets me down!!!! I would not call it one of his best, however very satisfied and enjoyed the read very very much!!! Have recommended this book to many MCS's fans, and would recommend it to anyone who is looking for one of the best, exciting reads!!

Stalin's Ghost (Unabridged)

94 reviews
Martin Cruz Smith

Recorded Books, 2007

Arakdy Renko is Back and it was Worth the Wait
Stalin has been spotted, or rather his ghost has been seen in the Chistye Prudy Metro Station. Has he come back to Moscow to haunt the underground? Hardly. But the powers that be want Arakdy Renko to investigate and when he arrives on the scene he does indeed find people who had seen old Joe in the flesh, well not the flesh exactly. So why was Renko given the case? Was it because he was ...

Gorky Park A Novel

1 review
Martin Cruz Smith

Random House,NY,, 1981

An interesting look at Soviet life
This rather well-known novel is a detective whodunnit set in the old Soviet Union during the late cold war, and therein lies its fascination. The author really does his homework, and we get a glimpse of that society with many or most of its warts on full display. Here we see the old Soviet Union as what it was; a deeply flawed system under the control of a corrupt bureaucracy made up of, yes, ...

Gorky Park (Arkady Renko Novels)

69 reviews
Martin Cruz Smith

Ballantine Books, 1982

Unforgettable
An intricate and profoundly sad murder mystery that rises above genre conventions to be a literate story and great character study as well as a fascinatingly detailed look at the repressive Brezhnev years in the Soviet Union. Arkady Renko is a thirtyish, down-trodden investigator who is burdened with a triple-homicide that no one seems to want him to solve: three murder victims, missing ...

Stallion Gate

13 reviews
Martin Cruz Smith

Fontana Press, 1992

Star Crossed??
I went looking for this book for a friend. I had read it when it was published years ago and was more than impressed with the story. It was just a great read! I noticed all of these "1 Star" ratings and could not imagine who might give it that sort of evaluation. It just "ain't so." This is a terrific book and,although, Cruz may not hit four or five "Stars" everytime out, he did with "Stallion ...

Polar Star (Arkady Renko Novels)

46 reviews
Martin Cruz Smith

Ballantine Books, 1990

Renko prevails, sort of, in story of mystery, love, ice, and spies
Having read all the Arkady Renko books, including Stalin's Ghost, except Polar Star and Red Square (plus Renko-less Rose), I decided to go back and catch up with Polar Star. Very glad I did. Full of excitement, close escapes, romances, murders, and enough detail about fishing in the Bering Sea on a Russian - US joint venture that you feel you have been there. (Martin Cruz Smith reminds me of the ...

Rose

93 reviews
Martin Cruz Smith

Random House Audio, 1996

Masterful despite a plot quirk
Rose is one of the most evocative, beautifully written historical novels I've ever read. Smith picks you up and puts you down in a Victorian-era mining village where you can feel the coal dust in the air, as well as an undercurrent of danger. His descriptions are palpable and very sensuous, and you really crawl into the skin of his protagonist. I give this five stars despite a major "Say ...

Wolves Eat Dogs
Martin Cruz Smith

Recorded Books, 2005

The grandest of them all, a self-made powerhouse named Pasha Ivanov, has apparently leapt to his death from the palatial splendor of his posh, ultra-modern Moscow condominium. While there are no signs pointing to homicide, there is one troubling and puzzling bit of evidence: in Ivanov's bedroom closet, there's a mountain of salt.

Polar Star

1 review
Martin Cruz Smith

Random, 1989

I Love Arkady Renko
Martin Cruz Smith has created a sensational, if laconic, character in Arkady Renko. He is relentless, subtle, very human and very flawed. Set on a Russian fishing factory ship, the place description is as fantastic as the story. His characters are unique and his endings never disappoint! I have read all of his books, some over and over.

Red Square
Martin Cruz Smith

Recorded Books, Inc., 1993

Suspenseful mystery that takes place in newly democartic Moscow. By the author of Gorky Park.

The Indians Won

2 reviews
Martin Cruz Smith

Tower & Leisure Sales Co, 1981

A novel both believable and inspirational
I almost didn't read this book because I thought that the premise was too unbelievable. I thought that any story of the American Indian tribes building a self-sustaining independent nation after the Battle of the Little Big Horn must be laughingly unrealistic and simplistic. I could not have been more wrong. This story is almost too believable and packed with plausible, realistic detail. It could ...

Red Square: A Novel (Mortalis.)

6 reviews
Martin Cruz Smith

Ballantine Books, 2007

Return of the Exile...
1992's "Red Square" is the third of what are now six Martin Cruz Smith novels featuring Russian Investigator Arkady Renko. In "Red Square," Renko returns from exile in Siberia to resume his criminal investigation duties with the Prosecutor's Office in Moscow, only to find that the Russia he left behind is falling apart, almost as fast as Renko himself. Martin Cruz Smith provides a ...

Tokyo Station

5 reviews
Martin Cruz Smith

Macmillan, 2002

Same story,different name
This book is the British edition of "December 6"! I bought it blind, thinking it was a CIA story . . . So don't get taken!

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