Gorky Park
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394517483 (0394517482)
ASIN: 394517482
Publish date: February 12th 1981
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 365
Edition language: English
Series: Arkady Renko (#1)
Arkady Renko is an honest man. But he lives in a place at a time when honest men just don't fit. As a chief investigator for the prosecutor general of Moscow in the late 1970s, Renko is surrounded by careerists, villains, thieves, murderers, psychopaths, and schemers. While everyone is looking out f...
So this is a spy novel. Sorta. So this is a love story. Kinda, as long as you ignore the fact that the romance sub-plot feels a bit contrived and is totally more of a Hollywood type love plot. You know the kind they throw in because they think women li...
Everybody plays the fool...sometime.There's no exception to the rule - listen baby!It may be factual, it may be cruel...I ain't lying.Everybody plays the fool. - AARON NEVILLE When the lie becomes the truth, when the fool wields all the power, when there are no rules, and exceptions abound....be...
bookshelves: film-only, summer-2011, slavic, mystery-thriller, published-1981, noir Read from June 17 to 18, 2011 William Hurt ... Arkady Renko Lee Marvin ... Jack Osborne Brian Dennehy ... William Kirwill Ian Bannen ... Iamskoy Joanna Pacula ... Irina Asanova Michael Elphick ... Pasha Ric...
Detective novels, police procedurals, whatever you call them, are not my cup of tea. However, I really, really liked this one. Well written and unique.
10 years ago
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