Martin Cruz Smith

Chernobyl: the Zone of Exclusion. A ghostly place, deserted and forgotten for almost two decades, now inhabited by militia, shady scavengers, a few reckless scientists and some elderly Ukrainian peasants. This is the eerie and dangerous world Inspector Arkady Renko must navigate if he is to find out the truth behind the death of Russia's richest oligarchs. Pasha Ivanov has been found dead on the pavement outside his luxury high-rise apartment in Moscow....

A high-stakes tale set in Moscow follows the machinations of a group of reactionaries who harbor a nostalgic loyalty to the regime of Joseph Stalin and who plot to create a groundswell for a new dictatorship.

In the Prosecutor's Office, Renko is looking into the murder of Rosen, a black marketeer. But all the witnesses to the car bomb that caused his death have disappeared, and Renko is taken off the case. But continuing the investigation, he is led to Irina, a woman he thought he'd lost forever.

He made too many enemies. He lost his party membership. Once Moscow’s top criminal investigator, Arkady Renko now toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship working with American trawlers in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when an adventurous female crew member is picked up dead with the day’s catch, Renko is ordered by his captain to investigate an accident that has all the marks of murder. Up against the celebrated Soviet bureaucracy...

In a New Mexico blizzard, four men cross a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate to select a test site for the first atomic weapon. They are Oppenheimer, the physicist; Groves, the general; Fuchs, the spy. The fourth man is Sergeant Joe Pena, a hero, informer, fighter, musician, Indian. These four men -- and a cast of soldiers, roughnecks and scientists -- will change history forever.

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 the New York City police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fur dealer. Meanwhile, Renko is falling in love...

Inspektor Arkadij Renko, ulubiony bohater Martina Cruza Smitha znany między innymi z "Parku Gorkiego" powraca, by raz jeszcze zmierzyć się ze zbrodnią, tym razem w zdewastowanej strefie otaczającej pozostałości po najbardziej feralnej elektrowni atomowej XX wieku. Pasza Iwanow, przedstawiciel nowej rosyjskiej kasty superbogaczy, wypada z okna swojego ekskluzywnego mieszkania na dziesiątym piętrze moskiewskiego apartamentowca. Początkowo...

"When three murder victims are discovered in Moscow's Gorky Park, their faces and fingertips removed, detective Arkady Renko is determined to identify the bodies and find the killer. But as a picture of the victims takes shape, the clues point toward involvement not only of the KGB but also of the woman he loves, Irina. Now, hunted by the secret police and confronted by an intricate web of deception and treachery reaching to the highest political...

When three murder victims are discovered in Moscow's Gorky Park their faces and fingertips removed detective Arkady Renko is determined to identify the bodies and find the killer. But when the clues point toward the involvement of the KGB, Renko is hunted by the secret police and confronted by an intricate web of deception and treachery reaching the highest political levels.