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Martin Cruz Smith
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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, Compact Disk, Audio Download, eBook
about 4 hours ago
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from December 6
Apr 05, 2013
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Wolves Eat Dogs
Aug 07, 2012
Three Stations will be released on September 06, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Sep 06, 2011
Three Stations is now available in Trade Paperback
Sep 06, 2011
Martin Cruz Smith Ebook Boxed Set will be released on May 03, 2011 in eBook
May 03, 2011
Martin Cruz Smith Ebook Boxed Set is now available in eBook
May 03, 2011
Wolves Eat Dogs will be released on January 04, 2011 in eAudio
Jan 04, 2011
Wolves Eat Dogs is now available in eAudio
Jan 04, 2011
Stalin's Ghost will be released on January 04, 2011 in eAudio
Jan 04, 2011
Stalin's Ghost is now available in eAudio
Jan 04, 2011
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Three Stations
Sep 22, 2010
Three Stations is now available in Compact Disk
Aug 17, 2010
Three Stations will be released on August 17, 2010 in Compact Disk
Aug 17, 2010

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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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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,...
The Witness, January 16, 2013
...influenced you? I do enjoy crime fiction. I have read most of Ian Rankins novels and I think Martin Cruz Smith is a great crime writer. I also enjoyed Patricia Cornwells earlier novels. We have fantastic South African crime writers, among them Mike...
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...
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...
The Witness, January 16, 2013
...influenced you? I do enjoy crime fiction. I have read most of Ian Rankins novels and I think Martin Cruz Smith is a great crime writer. I also enjoyed Patricia Cornwells earlier novels. We have fantastic South African crime writers, among them Mike...
SuperSite for Windows, January 7, 2013
...The Art of Power by Jon Meacham, narrated by Edward Herrmann and Jon Meacham Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park...
Guardian.co.uk, December 28, 2012
...we also need an injection of some petrol." The "petrol" was supplied by crime writing. MacLehose claims Martin Cruz Smith's 1981 mega-selling Gorky Park was the first real crime book he had read and that was when he was buying it. But by the time of Peter...
Hamilton Spectator, December 16, 2012
...he handles people, his dialogue, goofy plots. I also enjoy Ian Rankin, Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke and Martin Cruz Smith. Don: Like most readers when they discover a story they can’t put down, I’m wondering about what’s next for Max Dexter?...
TechCrunch, December 15, 2012
...one will keep writing, even though I know that I’m competing with Gabriel García Márquez, Margaret Atwood, Martin Cruz Smith, Jo Walton, George R.R. Martin, Hilary Mantel, and Cormac McCarthy, to name a few personal modern favorites — and also with...