![]() While the watcher is sent on time-consuming errands, Renko uncovers layer after layer of conspiracy and greed. Renko reluctantly starts by trying to identify the victims, hampered by a junior investigator who Renko knows is his own personal watcher from the KGB. And yet, Renko’s boss, prosecutor general Andrei Iamskoy, will not let the cup pass from the investigator. Not only are there hints that the victims were involved in some kind of illicit trading, one of the victims has American dental work. Though when Martin Cruz Smith’s Gorky Parkopens, Renko is doing everything he can to pass along a case of three murder victims to the KGB. While everyone is looking out for themselves, Renko stubbornly pursues the truth-no matter who it pisses off. As a chief investigator for the prosecutor general of Moscow in the late 1970s, Renko is surrounded by careerists, villains, thieves, murderers, psychopaths, and schemers. But he lives in a place at a time when honest men just don’t fit. ![]()
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