Gorky Park

mass market paperback

Published Dec. 12, 1981 by Ballantine Books.

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4 stars (12 reviews)

A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing.

Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI and New York police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fur dealer. Meanwhile, Arkady is falling in love with a beautiful, headstrong dissident for whom he may risk everything...

Rich in insight, powerfully written, unrelentingly suspenseful, and impeccable in its portrayal of Moscow life, here is Gorky Park.

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I have started watching the movie multiple times, over the years. But for some reason I never saw the whole thing. What I do remember is a standoff between Renko and Lee Marvin in the snow. Recently I thought about it again and decided I wanted to know the whole story. If I had known that the boring movie had much tighter storytelling than the book, I might never have started the book. Dear god, there was so much fluff. Some of the stuff not related to the story was nice and gave me a good feeling of the Soviet Union. But there was just so damn much boring crap. Like those endless pages at Shatura. What was that all about? If the book had been half as long, it would have been great. But at nearly 400 pages... no, thanks.

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