Series: Arkady Renko
by Author Martin Cruz Smith
Polar Star (1990)
Martin Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko books are a series of mysteries set at various points in late 2oth century Russian history, starting with the last death throes of Communism. This is the second book in the series. I’ve read Stalin’s Ghost (#6) and watched the film version of Gorky Park (#1). H...
Wolves Eat Dogs (2006)
Over the years, I made two trips to the Soviet Union. The first time was in 1965, in the course of a four-month knockabout through the USSR, Eastern and Central Europe, and Scandinavia before my Peace Corps service started. (That was the trip during which I was threatened by East German Vopos (Vo...
Stalin's Ghost (2007)
The Arkady Renko series from Martin Cruz Smith has to be the most chronologically dispersed series I have ever seen. It began with Gorky Park in 1981 and has continued up to 2010 with Three Stations, and in those 30 intervening years there have been only seven novels total. But true to the old ...
Havana Bay (2000)
Havana Bay is the fourth novel in Martin Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko novels. The first, Gorky Park, is a well known book that was made into a well known film. I haven’t read any of the previous Arkady Renko novels (they’re set in Russia, this book is set in Cuba, which is why I chose it) but I quic...
Gorky Park (1982)
I picked up Gorky Park at the library because I had been wanting to read Polar Star, its sequel, again.I listened to Polar Star on tape years ago on a road trip to Burning Man and it was grippingly real, gritty, rusty and bloody. Murder on a Russian fishing vessel out in the Arctic. I felt as if ...