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Late 1990s: A visit to Soviet Russia and the famous Gorky Park in a thriller that never lets up.
Gorky Park
What you need to know before your trail
A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing.
Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko needs to identify the victims and uncover the truth, but in order to do that he must battle the KGB, FBI, and New York police as he performs the impossible. He must also try to stay alive.
Travel Guide
Everyone has perhaps heard of Gorky Park in some way or another wether it be in the song of the same name or in numerous media and literary ways. Yet this book sets the scene very well that you are transported back to the Soviet union in the early 1980s and adds a new dimension to the period as well as to the detective story set there. The sense of place and time is compelling in many ways p the weather, the darkness, the sense of foreboding…..
Arkady Renko is a very good character – a maverick in Russia, one to buck the system as it were. He is in the soviet system but is trying to get out and fight it at the same time. He almost seems personally offended that three people have been murdered in one of Moscow’s nicest parks and one of the best places to come and escape the downsides of city living.
Gorky Park – ‘Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure’ to give it its full name is of course the central setting.
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