num_pages: 433
description: 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.
language: English
title: Gorky Park
titlecomplete: Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)
characters: Sergei Fet, Pasha Pavlovich, Feodor Golodkin, William Kirwill, Misha Mikoyan, Major Pribluda, Natasha Mikoyan, James Kirwill, Zoya Renko, Andrei Iamskoy, Irina Asanova, Hans Unmann, Yuri Viskov, Valerya Davidova, Ilya Nikitin, Arkady Renko, Kostia Borodin, John Osborne
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Espionage, Crime, Russia, Suspense
ratings_count: 67072
places: Russian Federation, New York City, New York, Staten Island, New York, Moscow, Russia
series: Arkady Renko
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: CWA Gold Dagger, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: The CWA Dagger of Daggers, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: CWA Best Ever
category: Crime Novel
publisher: Ballantine Books