![]() ![]() ![]() More importantly, it helped establish ambitious expectations for the genre - that thrillers should be psychologically convincing, socially observant and politically sophisticated - that have since become commonplace. From the opening section where three bodies, their faces and fingertips removed, emerge from the Moscow snow, the story is an exemplary page turner. Gorky Park (1981), featuring the world-weary communist party member and Moscow policeman Arkady Renko, became an instant crime classic, with reviews comparing its author not only to John le Carré, but also to Dostoevsky and Graham Greene. A s a misjudgment it was perhaps not quite on the same scale as the man who turned down The Beatles, but when Martin Cruz Smith's publishers declined his idea for a story about a Russian detective, they unwittingly let slip one of the global publishing successes of the past 25 years. ![]()
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