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Best known for the Moscow detective novel Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith is also known for delivering stories of crime, conspiracy and intrigue featuring protagonists whose loyalties are sometimes murky. Whether he is dramatizing history or fashioning his own facts, Smith fills his deeply researched novels with a sense of darkness underneath the detail.
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Fact File
| Name:
Martin Cruz Smith
Also Known As:
Martin William Smith (birth name); Simon Quinn
Current Home:
Northern California
Date of Birth:
1942
Place of Birth:
Reading, Pennsylvania
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B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1964
Awards:
Gold Dagger Award for Gorky Park, 1981; Hammett Award for Havana Bay, 1981
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| | Stalin's Ghost
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Martin Cruz Smith
In post-Soviet Russia, Seven Year Plans have been replaced with side-street assassinations. Senior Investigator Arkady Renko notices a troubling pattern in several of these recent murders; many of the murder-for-hire victims served with two of his colleagues in Russia's elite Black Berets. One of those colleagues is now running for high public office. Adding a ghastly aura to these mysteries are reports that the ghost of Joseph Stalin has been seen lurking on Moscow subway platforms. Another sharp cloak-and-dagger outing for Martin Cruz Smith, the author of Wolves Eat Dogs and Gorky Park. | | 
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Gorky Park (1981)
Stallion Gate (1986)
Polar Star (1989)
Red Square (1992)
Rose (1996)
Havana Bay (1999)
December 6 (2002)
Wolves Eat Dogs (2004)
Stalin's Ghost (2007)
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The Best Book to Read First
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| | Havana Bay
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Martin Cruz Smith
If you missed reading Gorky Park when it came out, you may want to dip into Havana Bay before going back to read the other Arkady Renko novels. Smith beautifully captures the sultry, seedy, sensual Cuban atmosphere in this "richly intricate mystery" (Carl Hiassen) of post-Cold War political intrigue. That said, Gorky Park is Smith's best known book, one that Sleep No More author Greg Iles cites among his greatest influences.
Gorky Park
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Martin Cruz Smith
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Favorite Authors from Martin Cruz Smith
| In a chat with readers on Barnes & Noble.com for the release of Havana Bay, Smith was asked about some of his favorite authors. He responded: "Among the people who write thrillers or fiction, I certainly was a big fan of Peter Høeg; Robert Harris is very good. Among detective novels, I like Larry Block's Scudder series, particularly When the Sacred Ginmill Closes. Among writers, perhaps my great favorite is Don DeLillo."
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