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7/10

This took ages and was, because of my sporadic reading, sometimes a bit hard to follow. I imagine people who can remember the tension during the Cold War might have enjoyed and understood it more than I did. I, who was born a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The (bureaucratic) things that happened in the book are just unimaginable to me.
TBR since July 5th. 2015, 335 pages.

Detective/thriller from 1981, introducing Russian investigator Arkady Renko. Three bodies, including one American, appear in Gorky Park as the snow melts. Plot gets complicated with issues related to politics, the KGB, foreign relations, history, trade, and personal relationships. Kind of a mixed bag and not one of my favorites. https://cannonballread.com/2020/08/gorky-park-elcicco/

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
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Had looked forward to reading this book for a long time and just found it so #disappointing. Not been back to the series since. #unpopularopinion
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I really liked this first book in the Arkadi Renko series. I am very curious how the second one will continue after the events at the end of the first one. I really liked the parts about both USSR and USA, very good depiction of both.

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Waited for a long time to read this book, was really looking forward to it and then it fell flat! 😢

“Schmidt showed a smile as hard as a car grille.” (P.53)

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(Day 12 - #Russians)

*I was enamored of the Arkady Renko novels in the 80s. I absolutely loved them. Martin Cruz Smith is still writing novels—he just published a Renko book—but Gorky Park is the one for which he is best known. Above are locations & symbols in the novel, which is set in Russia, but does feature Staten Island, US, very briefly. I believe there are now eight books in the series.

All the required books for my detective fiction class this semester. Should be a fun one! (Not pictured: some Sherlock Holmes stories I already had on hand.)

Two in one photo challenge #park and #Russia ❣️ #augustisatrip thanks to @vkois88 and @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

The book opens with the discovery of three bodies in Moscow‘s Gorky Park..shot at close range, their fingertips pruned and faces sliced off. I‘ve not read the book, but remember the film adaptation was dark and tense.
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Opening line: "All nights should be so dark, all winters so warm, all headlights so dazzling." #gorkypark #martincruzsmith #panbooks #book #bookgnome #firstline #bookcover #bookish

#backintheUSSR I enjoyed the couple of Arkady novels I read, set in Soviet era Russia. #rockinMay

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"Well, love was no fading violet; love was a weed that flourished in the dark. Has anyone ever explained it?" #tbr

This would have been better if i had started in the proper order. However, if i had, i probably would not have continued with the series...

Does anyone else feel as though we are living in an Arkady Renko novel?