Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith • BookLikes (ISBN:0006178472)

Gorky Park

by: Martin Cruz Smith (author)

ISBN: 9780006178477 (0006178472)

Pages no: 365

Edition language: English

Category:

Mystery, Detective, Thriller, Crime

Series: Arkady Renko (#1)

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Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite rated it

10 years ago

http://summerreadingproject.booklikes.com Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite 3.5 Gorky Park, by Martin Cruz Smith

text Gorky Park, by Martin Cruz Smith

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...

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Chris' Fish Place rated it

10 years ago

http://ethiercn.booklikes.com Chris' Fish Place 4.0 Better than the movie (but you knew that)

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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...

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Sad Books Say So Much rated it

11 years ago

http://mindheartbook.booklikes.com Sad Books Say So Much 4.0 Completed July 11, 2014

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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...

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Bettie's Books rated it

11 years ago

http://bettie.booklikes.com Bettie's Books 4.5 Gorky Park (Arkady Renko #1)

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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...

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Damn Good Books (or not) rated it

12 years ago

http://mselnick.booklikes.com Damn Good Books (or not) 4.0

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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.

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