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"Brilliant . . . enough enigmas within enigmas within enigmas to reel the mind."
–The New Yorker
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 with a beautiful, headstrong dissident for whom he may risk everything.
"Once one gets going, one doesn't want to stop. . . . The action is gritty, the plot complicated, [and] the overriding quality is intelligence."
–The Washington Post
"Reminds you just how satisfying a smoothly turned thriller can be." –The New York Times Book Review
"An unbelievable achievement . . . vivid, witty . . . completely fascinating."
–Boston Herald American
"Gripping, romantic, and dazzlingly original."
–Cosmopolitan
THIS TITLE COMES FROM MORTALIS: Mysteries and Thrillers
Random House Trade Paperbacks is please to present Mortalis, a line of books featuring mysteries and thrillers that are historical and/or international in scope. The list includes trade paperback originals as well as reprints of classic mysteries, international thrillers, and the occasional tale of true crime.
"Mortalis gives us an ideal way to introduce the best new writers as well as to celebrate the masters in these genres," said Jane von Mehren, Vice President and Publisher, Trade Paperbacks, Random House Publishing Group.
Mortalis republishes some classic authors such as Martin Cruz Smith , P. D. James, Robert Harris, Agatha Christie, and Wilkie Collins as well as original trade paperbacks such as Boris Akunin's SISTER PELAGIA AND THE WHITE BULLDOG (the start of a new series from an internationally bestselling author), New York Times Notable author David Corbett's BLOOD OF PARADISE, and Alex Carr's literary thriller AN ACCIDENTAL AMERICAN. Featuring stunning new packaging, each title contains a "dossier" in the back-a brand new commentary section that illuminates a specific and intriguing aspect of the work, or the author's career.
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Douglas Shaffer
reviewed Gorky Park (Arkady Renko Series #1) on September 08, 2020
Gorky Park (Arkady Renko Series #1)
There seemed a kind of a hush all over our fifth-floor coffee and smoking lounge as I cracked open this then-new release on my lunch break, back in the early eighties.
And as I entered the crime scene with our dishevelled and grumpy Arcady Renko, deep within the famed Moscow park - in a fairytale midwinter scene of icily glittering snow - I saw how expertly the scene had been set for "doom, deep and darker than any sea-dingle!"
For the doom of widespread corruption is apocalyptic in its scope.
It was an electrifying experience, and if you haven't already done so, I suggest you read it.
But, you know - reading it in the eighties, I was concurrently witnessing colossal transformations in the same office which was the milieu for my reading - strikingly similar to changes occurring now.
Our button-down management was then, as now, infiltrated by Me-Gen Bright Young Things, though I guess the bright kids now are products of a sleek, Can-Do Millennial education, beavering away at purging dark information.
You see, managers and politicos both had learned from the much-ballyhooed corruption of the seventies.
Time to tighten the rules -
And the apron strings.
Get an iron grip, guys!
The Communist Empire was teetering.
The posthorns were announcing the imminent collapse of the fagged fox.
And the hounds were closing in close behind.
***
And we aging Boomers, fagged like the flagging fox at the snarls and yelps of an inhuman onrush of an exponentially new set of rules in the name of Blind Progress, now have to admit we're flummoxed and finished.
Do you see my point?
The real rush to the kill came at the time Gorky Park was published.
This novel showed us deep corruption at all levels, like that of the eighties, and it told us: the Powers that Be would soon discretely fold it all up and put it out of harm's way.
And that was prescient - for we are now at the penultimate point -
Standing in the Lengthening Dark Sunset Shadow of the Deep State.
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