
Gorky Park - The Arkady Renko Novels 1 (Paperback)
Martin Cruz Smith (author)Published: 12/09/2013
A triple murder in Moscow's famous Gorky Park amusement centre rocks the capital - three corpses found in the snow, so badly mutilated that their identities can't be verified.
Chief Investigator Arkady Renko from the Moscow police takes the case.
Renko is a brilliant investigator - dangerously so.
Now, to identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI and the police - and stay alive doing it....
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
ISBN: 9781471131080
Number of pages: 592
Weight: 402 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 40 mm
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