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Gorky Park is a 1981 crime novel written by American author Martin Cruz Smith. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Set in the Soviet Union during the Cold War , Gorky Park is the first book in a series featuring the character Arkady Renko , a Moscow homicide investigator.
The action in Gorky Park takes place in the Soviet Union and in the US, Polar Star on board a Soviet fishing vessel in the Bering Sea, and Red Square in West Germany and the Glasnost-era Soviet Russia. [1] [2] Havana Bay is set in Cuba; Wolves Eat Dogs is set in Moscow and in the areas affected by the Chernobyl disaster.
Gorky Park is a 1983 American mystery thriller film based on the 1981 novel by Martin Cruz Smith.The film was directed by Michael Apted.. The film stars William Hurt as Arkady Renko, Lee Marvin as Jack Osborne, Joanna Pacuła as Irina Asanova, Rikki Fulton as Major Pribluda, Brian Dennehy as William Kirwill, Ian McDiarmid as Professor Andreev, Michael Elphick as Pasha and Ian Bannen as ...
Martin Cruz Smith, born Martin William Smith (November 3, 1942), is an American writer of mystery and suspense fiction, mostly in an international or historical setting. He is best known for his series featuring Russian investigator Arkady Renko, so far ten novels, who was introduced in 1981 with Gorky Park and most recently appeared in Independence Square (2023).
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Her feature debut came in appearing opposite William Hurt in Gorky Park (1983). She was praised by Roman Polanski for that role. [1] [2] She played in numerous American TV series and movies, including the Holocaust drama Escape From Sobibor (CBS, 1987), [3] The Kiss (1988), [4] E.A.R.T.H. Force (CBS, 1990), and the TV series, The Colony (ABC ...
Michael John Elphick (19 September 1946 – 7 September 2002) was an English film and television actor. He played the eponymous private investigator in the ITV series Boon and Harry Slater in BBC's EastEnders. [1]
Arkady Renko, former Chief Investigator of the Moscow Town Prosecutor's Office, is serving a self-imposed exile in Siberia to avoid being detained for his actions in Gorky Park several years earlier, despite the Soviet Union's ostensibly increasing liberalization.