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Martin Cruz Smith

Martin Cruz Smith’s novels include Stalin’s Ghost, Gorky Park, Rose, December 6, Polar Star, and Stallion Gate. A two-time winner of the Hammett Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers and a recipient of Britain’s Golden Dagger Award, he lives in California.

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Three Stations will be released on November 12, 2013 in Compact Disk
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Tatiana will be released on November 12, 2013 in Hardcover, eBook Reflowable, Compact Disk, Audio Download, eBook
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Excerpt 1 from December 6
Apr 03, 2013
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Excerpt 1 from Wolves Eat Dogs
Aug 07, 2012
Three Stations will be released on September 06, 2011 in Trade Paperback
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Three Stations is now available in Trade Paperback
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Martin Cruz Smith Ebook Boxed Set will be released on May 03, 2011 in
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Chapter 1 from Three Stations
Sep 22, 2010
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Three Stations will be released on August 17, 2010 in eBook
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Three Stations is now available in eBook
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Three Stations will be released on August 17, 2010 in Compact Disk
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Three Stations is now available in Compact Disk
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Book Review: The Twelfth Department
Scottish Daily Express, May 24, 2013
...very best crime novelists working in a period setting and if your taste is for similar fare by Martin Cruz Smith or Philip Kerr in which an honest sleuth tries to do his best in a corrupt foreign regime you should not hesitate. The dogged Korolev is a...
Grove Area Book Club
Chicago Tribune, May 11, 2013
...Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot, "What is Life Worth?" by Kenneth R. Feinberg and "Wolves Eat Dogs" by Martin Cruz Smith.The whole group got a kick out of "Gang Leader for a Day". It was such a fresh look at the projects and the poverty cycle. The...
First Offenses: Getting Started on a Life of Crime (Fiction)
Kirkus Reviews, April 2, 2013
...detective novelist, that sheds additional light on doings in wartime Hobb’s End. Wolves Eat Dogs (2004), by Martin Cruz Smith: Ever-cynical Moscow Inspector Arkady Renko debuted in 1981’s Gorky Park. Here, he investigates the peculiar case of Pasha...
Book review: A Man Without Breath, by Philip Kerr
The Independent, March 13, 2013
...be called a genre in itself: the good detective trying to do his best within a corrupt regime (Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park is another cogent example), but it can safely be said that few writers have tackled the theme with the rigour of Philip Kerr. If...
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Nudge, February 18, 2013
...debuts who will become the stars of the future. Mantle authors include: Benjamin Black (John Banville), Andrea Camilleri, Martin Cruz Smith, Tom Franklin, Sue Grafton, Lucretia Grindle, M. R. Hall, Blaine Harden, Susanna Jones, Simon Lelic, Daniel Mason,...
Hour of the Wolf, by Håkan Nesser
Nudge, February 13, 2013
...debuts who will become the stars of the future. Mantle authors include: Benjamin Black (John Banville), Andrea Camilleri, Martin Cruz Smith, Tom Franklin, Sue Grafton, Lucretia Grindle, M. R. Hall, Blaine Harden, Susanna Jones, Simon Lelic, Daniel Mason,...
The Second Secret of Successful Crime Writing...
Nudge, February 11, 2013
...debuts who will become the stars of the future. Mantle authors include: Benjamin Black (John Banville), Andrea Camilleri, Martin Cruz Smith, Tom Franklin, Sue Grafton, Lucretia Grindle, M. R. Hall, Blaine Harden, Susanna Jones, Simon Lelic, Daniel Mason,...
Book Review: The Twelfth Department
Scottish Daily Express, May 24, 2013
...very best crime novelists working in a period setting and if your taste is for similar fare by Martin Cruz Smith or Philip Kerr in which an honest sleuth tries to do his best in a corrupt foreign regime you should not hesitate. The dogged Korolev is a...
Grove Area Book Club
Chicago Tribune, May 11, 2013
...Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot, "What is Life Worth?" by Kenneth R. Feinberg and "Wolves Eat Dogs" by Martin Cruz Smith.The whole group got a kick out of "Gang Leader for a Day". It was such a fresh look at the projects and the poverty cycle. The...
First Offenses: Getting Started on a Life of Crime (Fiction)
Kirkus Reviews, April 2, 2013
...detective novelist, that sheds additional light on doings in wartime Hobb’s End. Wolves Eat Dogs (2004), by Martin Cruz Smith: Ever-cynical Moscow Inspector Arkady Renko debuted in 1981’s Gorky Park. Here, he investigates the peculiar case of Pasha...
Review: A Man Without Breath, by Philip Kerr
UK Nigeria Online, March 16, 2013
...be called a genre in itself: the good detective trying to do his best within a corrupt regime (Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park is another cogent example), but it can safely be said that few writers have tackled the theme with the rigour of Philip Kerr. If...
Book review: A Man Without Breath, by Philip Kerr
UK Nigeria Online, March 16, 2013
...be called a genre in itself: the good detective trying to do his best within a corrupt regime (Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park is another cogent example), but it can safely be said that few writers have tackled the theme with the rigour of Philip Kerr. If...
Book review: A Man Without Breath, by Philip Kerr
The Independent, March 13, 2013
...be called a genre in itself: the good detective trying to do his best within a corrupt regime (Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park is another cogent example), but it can safely be said that few writers have tackled the theme with the rigour of Philip Kerr. If...
Review: A Man Without Breath, by Philip Kerr
The Independent, March 13, 2013
...be called a genre in itself: the good detective trying to do his best within a corrupt regime (Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park is another cogent example), but it can safely be said that few writers have tackled the theme with the rigour of Philip Kerr. If...