It begins with a triple murder in a Moscow amusement centre: 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.
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All nights should be so dark, all winters so warm, all headlines so dazzling.- CHAPTER ONE
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(Simon & Schuster, 15 August 2013, originally published in 1981, e-book, 592 pages, bought from Amazon Kindle, #POPSUGARReadingChallenge, a book published in the year you were born)
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This is a new author for me. I don't think I'll be reading any more books. I didn't completely dislike Gorky Park but I didn't love it either. This is a meh book for me, an in-between read. I usually enjoy thrillers but this one didn't quite work for me. I think part of the issue is that a vast part of the book is set in Moscow and I struggled to connect with the sense of place created in the book. I enjoyed it more when the events move to the US. I also didn't particularly like Renko. He just didn't gel for me. I found his relationship cringe-worthy. This isn't a terrible book just an okay one.
