Gorky Park
- 393
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
- Film 1983
- On screen
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Our view
In “Gorky Park”, Cold War Moscow and the investigator Arkady Renko are the reasons to keep reading. Martin Cruz Smith opens the Renko series with a crime novel of murder and conspiracy. Some readers find the opening hard to follow, with many threads in motion, and would have liked the book shorter; the final part, by some accounts, draws everything together tightly, and some finish eager for the next Renko novel.
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About the book
Gorky Park is a 1981 crime novel written by American author Martin Cruz Smith. Set in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, Gorky Park is the first book in a series featuring the character Arkady Renko, a Moscow homicide investigator.
Reading order · Arkady Renko octology
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On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen once.
- FilmGorky ParkIMDb
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 103 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 41% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 11 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 92 | 89% |
Frequently asked
How long is Gorky Park?
It has 393 pages — shorter than 56% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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