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Martin Cruz Smith. Welcome to the website. Feel free to navigate from book to book, read excerpts and reviews, and see the photographs, sketches and research material that go into my novels. I hope this website will give you an understanding of my travels and how I work.
"You're a secret romantic," she said. "I'm a cynic", Arkady said. "I believe in car wrecks, airline disasters, missing children, self immolation, suffocation with pillows."
November 17, 2019. Martin Cruz Smith’s Latest Book Heads Back to the USSR.
Polar Star. ‘Like a beast, the net came steaming up the ramp and into the sodium lamps of the trawl deck. Like a gleaming pelt, mats of red, blue, orange strips covered the mesh: plastic "chafing hair" designed to ease the net's way over the rocks of the sea bottom.
The Siberian Dilemma. Journalist Tatiana Petrovna is on the move. Arkady Renko, iconic Moscow investigator and Tatiana’s part-time lover, hasn’t seen her since she left on assignment over a month ago. When she doesn’t arrive on her scheduled train, he’s positive something is wrong.
Stallion Gate. ‘The lead bomber settled lower to the ground. Joe could make out a green light within the plexiglass nose. A green bombardier pointed down and the phosphorous bomb, as bright as snow crystals, hit the valley floor. Out of the bomb came horses brilliant with lather in the glare ...'.
Martin Cruz Smith Picture Gallery. portrait by Emily Arnold Smith. Searching for 'Rose' (1995) Soviet marketplace (1990) Strolling on the Arbat (1990) Heavy rain on an American trawler (1988) A school room at Chernobyl (2003) photo by Bob Adelman. Security men at the May Day parade (1991)
December 6. ‘Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo's underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings.
Red Square. ‘The woman raised her glass. Blond hair was brushed back like a mane from her broad brow and broader cheeks, short chin, medium height, mid-thirties. Dark sunglasses, gold necklace, black short sleeved sweater – contrasts that were more sensual than pretty in any ordinary sense.
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