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GORKY PARK
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I’m going to discuss the plot explicitly but out of order (I’m not retelling the story) so if you have never read this novel and are planning a beach holiday or a long flight where you want something solid with ’80s thriller vibes and a sleazy, sadistic, Flemingesque feel, I would definitely advise you to stop reading this now and go find a battered paperback copy of Gorky Park in a charity shop, thrift store or secondhand bookshop.
For a start, I don’t think this 1981 novel – the first of now around 10 “Detective Arkady Renko” thrillers released intermittently over the past 40 years – is best read in fifteen minute chunks in the middle of the night in the moments when a fed baby has fallen asleep on one of your arms, but not quite deeply enough for you to put it in a cot yet.
& that’s how I read the first half of this novel, over about a week and a half, before I realised that if I was ever going to get anywhere with it, I was going to have to start reading it in the daytime, too.
So I did.
I tried reading Gorky Park aloud to my small baby (stage name bb whamathan), but he found the disjointed way in which I was approaching the text frustrating, too, so insisted I put the effort in and do what I have always
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What’s it about?
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.
My thoughts
Gorky Park was the next book up in my World Book Night reading challenge – yes! I’ve now finished book 19 out of 20.
This is the first of eight novels in the Detective Arkady Renko series of novels and it’s set during the Cold War in the Soviet Union.
In a nutshell the story is in 3 parts; set in Moscow, Shatura and New York. Part 1 is in Moscow and concentrates on the discovery of the bodies in Gorky Park and the ensuing investigation. Part 2 moves to Shatura and focuses on Arkady’s recouperation and isolation and what I thought was a developing friendship between him and the Major but I’m not really sure and so this part didn’t really do much for me. In part 3 Arkad