Author Description

This atmospheric Soviet noir novel begins with the discovery of three bodies buried deep in the snow at Moscow's Gorky Park amusement park, their faces and fingertips gone. So why did the KGB get to the crime scene first, wonders homicide detective Arkady Renko--and why are they not investigating it themselves? In lean and energetic prose, Martin Cruz Smith's novel propels the reader through "enough enigmas within enigmas within enigmas to reel the mind" (The New Yorker).