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	SMITH
		In contrast to the taciturn Youngman Duran, for instance, Smith is gregarious.
		This took place, Smith emphasizes, in 1870s England, a period when the super-righteous, inordinately prudish Victorians were likely to accuse a woman of nakedness who only bared her arm, never mind one who dared to clothe herself in trousers.
		The story of the pit girls is what drew Smith to the subject to begin with and it is their lives that form the background for "Rose." However, says Smith, the novel exists on several levels.
	www.kenglade.com /smith.htm (3153 words)

	BookPage Interview November 2004: Martin Cruz Smith
		Smith recalls his first look at the sarcophagus that surrounds, though hardly "contains," the world-famous number four reactor; radioactivity from it continues to seep into the groundwater that feeds the Dnepr River.
		In Smith's new novel, one of Ivanov's vice presidents is found in Pripyat with his throat slashed.
		In retrospect, Smith considers Chernobyl one of the first irreparable cracks that eventually led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
	www.bookpage.com /0411bp/martin_cruz_smith.html (947 words)

	Book Review - December 6 by Martin Cruz Smith
		Martin Cruz Smith is a master at capturing the essence of a place, its rhythms and people and peculiarities that make it unique.
		Martin Cruz Smith moves the story back and forth in time, from Harry's boyhood days in Tokyo to just before the war in 1941.
		Martin Cruz Smith has written an entertaining and educational novel, one that drops you with utter precision in the center of Tokyo on December 6, 1941 and takes you for an exhilarating ride.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /december6/review (1043 words)

	Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith: Reviews
		Smith is in a class of his own, probably because his books are genuine novels as well as thrillers.
		When Cruz Smith is at his best, as he is here, it is impossible to tell how much is research and how much imagination.
		Cruz Smith’s Renko, one of the great literary characters of all time, always manages to stimulate self-examination while we identify with his frailties and shortcomings, and then generate strength and hope as he begins to re-discover his own.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/smithmartincruz/wolveseatdogs (819 words)

	Martin Cruz Smith
		Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Martin William Smith (who later changed his middle name to Cruz - his grandmother's surname) was educated at the University of Pennsylvania where he attained a BA in 1964.
		He was able to reach his goal thanks to money coming from numerous books where he used a pseudonym and also to the success of Nightwing which was even made into a movie.
		Smith's Gorky Park starring Arkady Renko was ready by 1981 and became a major hit.
	www.bastulli.com /Smith/smith.htm (1261 words)

	SALON: The SALON Interview - Martin Cruz Smith
		Smith explores 19th-century English conventions of gender and class and the problems they might pose for any thinking person.
		Like Arkady and the heroes of Smith's earlier novels -- the part-Indian/part-Anglo sleuths of "Nightwing" (about an invasion by vampire bats) and "Stallion Gate" (about the making of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos), for instance -- the protagonists of "Rose" are iconoclasts, estranged from their cultures, not really at home in the world.
		But as much as Smith loves and identifies with Arkady -- and he is working on a new Arkady Renko mystery now -- he says he never intended to confine his imaginative travels to Russia.
	www.salon.com /weekly/interview960520.html (2330 words)

	Review: Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Martin Cruz Smith's Moscow in Gorky Park was, famously, the result of a brief Intourist trip.
		Reagan was re-stoking the embers of the cold war but Cruz Smith was alert to the first signs of thaw and glasnost and a growing curiosity about the old enemy.
		Cruz Smith shows a Russia caught between the 19th and the 21st centuries: on the one hand "all New Russians had home theatres, as if they were auteurs on the side".
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1449542,00.html (889 words)

	Martin Cruz Smith - Palimpsest
		Martin Cruz Smith - a thriller writer, who first found fame with Gorky Park - a Police Thriller set in the USSR, and later made into a movie.
		Martin Cruz Smith has chronicled Arcady Renko against various backgrounds within the Russian sphere of influence in periods since pre-Glasnost in 5 widely spaced books.
		I think one thing Cruz Smith has done well where others have failed is to bring his pre-Glasnost characters into the present in a believable way, while still maintaining the requisite tension between the individual, state authority, and the criminal element.
	www.palimpsest.org.uk /forum/showthread.php?t=1550 (887 words)

	Martin Cruz Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Martin Cruz Smith (né Martin William Smith, later changed his middle name to Cruz after his grandmother's surname) was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1942.
		Smith also wrote a number of other paperback originals, including a series about a character named 'The Inquisitor,' who can be described as a James Bond-type agent employed by the Vatican.
		Martin Cruz Smith now lives in San Rafael, California with his wife and three children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martin_Cruz_Smith (410 words)

	Martin Cruz Smith Interviews with Don Swaim
		Cruz Smith spent one year researching what he thought would be his next novel.
		The captain was comfortable enough with Cruz Smith to allow him to accompany a fishing trip.
		Cruz Smith says what he writes doesn't have to have taken place, but he prefers to know it's possible.
	wiredforbooks.org /martincruzsmith (706 words)

	Martin Cruz Smith: Their man in Havana
		Then the American novelist Martin Cruz Smith was touring his Arkady Renko title Red Square, and I remember a gracious, lithe man with liquid brown eyes and a whimsical bent who liked to laugh, was serious about what he did and clearly enjoyed life.
		Cruz Smith promptly took the manuscript to Random House, which more promptly bought it for a cool million dollars.
		In the local press there, criticism was more pointed, some suggesting Cruz Smith was writing of an early 90s Cuba that is no more but that still suits the American mindset.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~waldrenm/cruz.html (1665 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Wolves Eat Dogs: Books: Martin Cruz Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cruz Smith took several trips to the area to learn about the "fl villages" and the lives of those who live in the contaminated area.
		Smith made numerous trips to the exclusion zone and his investment in time and first-hand research bears fruit.
		Smith's portrayal of Renko, life in the exclusion zone, and his development of the plot from start to finish is first rate.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Wolves-Dogs-Martin-Cruz-Smith/dp/0330435868 (1809 words)

	Amazon.com: Wolves Eat Dogs: Books: Martin Cruz Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Renko, introduced in Smith's 1981 bestseller, Gorky Park, is a cop well out of sync with rapidly changing Russian society, "a difficult investigator, a holdover from the Soviet era, a man on the skids" whose determination to do more than go through the motions of criminal inquiries inevitably exasperates his superiors.
		Smith's melancholy, indefatigable Senior Investigator Arkady Renko has been exiled to some bitter venues in the past—including blistering-hot Cuba in Havana Bay and the icy Bering sea in Polar Star—but surely the strangest (and most fascinating) is his latest, the eerie, radioactive landscape of post-meltdown Chernobyl.
		For fans of Martin Cruz Smith it is required reading simply for the fact that he (Smith) is such a superb writer; for once I just wish Smith would add something unexpected.
	www.amazon.com /Wolves-Dogs-Martin-Cruz-Smith/dp/0684872544 (2419 words)

	Amazon.ca: Havana Bay: Books: Martin Cruz Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Martin Cruz Smith writes his fourth installment of Arkaday Renko, the character introduced in his first novel, Gorky Park.
		Cruz Smith's descriptions of events and landmarks in Havana are enticingly vivid and his descriptions of Cuban people instill images of what these individuals would actually be like in your head.
		The only thing the same from Martin Cruz Smith's works are their high level of excitement, interesting characters and plot development.
	www.amazon.ca /Havana-Bay-Martin-Cruz-Smith/dp/0345390458 (1617 words)

	Books by Martin Cruz Smith
		In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created one of the iconic detectives of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko.
		Cynical, quietly subversive, brilliantly analytical and haunted by melancholy, Renko has survived, barely, the journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find his transformed nation just as obsessed with secrecy, corruption and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship.
		Suspenseful, exciting, and replete with the detailed research Martin Cruz Smith brings to all his novels, December 6 is a triumph of imagination, history, and storytelling melded into a magnificent whole.
	literati.net /MCSmith/SmithBooks.htm (872 words)

	Martin Cruz Smith : Wolves Eat Dogs : Book Review
		Martin Cruz Smith's new novel, Wolves Eat Dogs, is a stylish and atmospheric story set in Russia and the Ukraine.
		Smith effectively explores the themes of greed, opportunism, desperation, and survival, and he teaches us a great deal about Chernobyl-a place of self-destruction, doom, and infinite sadness.
		Martin Cruz Smith grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania, his father a white jazz musician and his mother a Pueblo Indian jazz singer.
	mostlyfiction.com /sleuths/cruzsmith.htm (544 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: December 6: Books: Martin Cruz Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Martin Cruz Smith does a wonderful job of conjuring up this lost pre-war world of depravity, dissolution and Japanese honor, and of creating a sense of what it might have been like to be completely enmeshed in that culture, so alien to us and yet so familiar to his protagonist, Niles.
		Smith's touch is magic, but the sheer volume of research included in DECEMBER 6 made it at times read more like a school paper than a novel.
		A newcomer to Smith's writing may be overwhelmed by this fact packed thriller, but Smith's fans, as well as anyone interested in wartime Japan, will find DECEMBER 6 absorbing and thought provoking.
	www.amazon.co.uk /December-6-Martin-Cruz-Smith/dp/0671775928 (1868 words)

	Native American Authors: Martin Cruz Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Martin William Smith was born in Reading, Pennsylvania; his father was a musician and his mother a jazz singer and Indian rights leader.
		Smith received his B. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964.
		Smith, who is best known for his novel Gorky Park, is a member of the Authors League of America and the Authors Guild.
	www.ipl.org /div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A108 (105 words)

	'Havana Bay' by Martin Cruz Smith
		Smith puts Renko on the trail of a missing Russian embassy official -- “Gorky Park” nemesis Sergei Pribluda -- who has disappeared in unlikely circumstances for a Muscovite.
		Smith portrays the Cuba of the ’90s as a land out of time and out of money but still out of the ordinary for the American reader.
		Smith again uses this book and his best-known character to tell an engaging tale and open a window to a distinctly different and intriguing place -- a Caribbean summer breeze rather than an Arctic winter blast.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19990822review318.asp (381 words)

	Printed Matter -- Martin Cruz Smith -- Page
		Smith brings his novel to a high level of craftsmanship by his use of specific detail that serves to bring Havana and a cast of characters to life.
		You will be transported to Cuba by a writer who grew up in Reading, Pa. Smith's love of music comes from the fact that his father was a jazz musician and his mother, a Native American, was a jazz singer.
		Smith sold "Gorky Park" for $1 million in 1981 and has since written books about Russia, Cuba and the coal mines in 19th century England.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /~gizmo/2001/mcsmith.html (734 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Martin Cruz Smith - Books: Meet the Writers
		Best known for the Moscow detective novel Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith is also known for delivering stories of crime, conspiracy and intrigue featuring protagonists whose loyalties are sometimes murky.
		Whether he is dramatizing history or fashioning his own facts, Smith fills his deeply researched novels with a sense of darkness underneath the detail.
		Smith beautifully captures the sultry, seedy, sensual Cuban atmosphere in this "richly intricate mystery" (Carl Hiassen) of post-Cold War political intrigue.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=700691&z=y (264 words)

	Martin Cruz Smith revisits Russian life of his best-seller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Smith may seem like a low-profile citizen, but he's also a rabid San Francisco Giants fan -- waving a rubber chicken when pitchers walk Barry Bonds.
		He was christened Martin William Smith, but later changed his middle name to his grandmother's surname, Cruz.
		Smith ran into a pal in Paris in the late '60s who paid him $600 to write "The Indians Won," an alternative history in which American Indians hold off the cavalry in 1876 and create an independent state.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/03/WBGJFA3KRN1.DTL (1510 words)

	Mystery Guide - Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cruz's portrait of late Cold War life in Moscow is either very well-researched or convincingly imagined.
		To a surprising extent, this becomes the core of the book; readers may be justifiably surprised to have their spy thriller morphing into a love story while it's still in their hands.
		For the most part, this love story works well, though it leads Cruz to a real mistake as he takes the romance far afield and makes the book longer than it should have been.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkSmithPark.html (484 words)

	Meg's Boyfriend: Martin Cruz Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Martin Cruz Smith is the author of a small series of books (among other things) featuring a very attractive Russian policeman named Arkady Renko.
		Arkady is a Russian and Smith is a Native American, but I get the impression that the character of the character is not too far removed from the character of the author.
		And even if that's not true, Smith is still a dreamboat with a talent for writing.
	home.comcast.net /~mjbrunner1/archive/martincruzsmith.html (493 words)

	Amazon.fr : December 6: Livres en anglais: Martin Cruz Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		de Martin Cruz Smith "TOKYO, DEC. 5-While last-minute negotiations to avert war between the United States and Japan approached their deadline in Washington, the average citizen of Tokyo basked..." (plus)
		Martin Cruz Smith offers a reasonable scenario in December 6.
		Smith vividly conjures up the beauty of the country and the ugliness in people.
	www.amazon.fr /December-6-Martin-Cruz-Smith/dp/1410401707 (836 words)

	Book Review - Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith
		Martin Cruz Smith has been successful as a writer because he has mastered several aspects necessary for a top-notch mystery novel.
		For all I know, Martin Cruz Smith has gotten it all wrong, that this sense of fatalism and ennui that runs through the Russian psyche doesn't really exist, and that his re-creation of modern Moscow and haunting Chernobyl are just figments of his imagination.
		If you've devoured previous Martin Cruz Smith novels, then this is one you have to read.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /wolves_eat_dogs/review (1112 words)

	Amazon.de: Wolves Eat Dogs: An Arkady Renko Novel: English Books: Martin Cruz Smith,Martin Cruz Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		von Martin Cruz Smith, Martin Cruz Smith "Moscow swam in color..." (mehr)
		Cruz Smith ist es gelungen, diese Elemente zu einem Stimmungsbild des Entsetzens und der Resignation zusammenzusetzen, das seinesgleichen sucht.
		It might just be me but this book just seems to be a platform for Cruz Smith to say how bad Russia is these days.
	www.amazon.de /Wolves-Eat-Dogs-Arkady-Renko/dp/1405047593 (1158 words)

	Amazon.com: Gorky Park: Books: Martin Cruz Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		And his detective, the militia investigator Arkady Renko, is one of the most memorable detectives in fiction: smart without being pedantic, intelligent, patriotic (yes, our Arkady truly loves his country), loyal to his friends and the woman he falls in love with.
		Smith's novel is powerful, well-written, engaging, insightful, and a lesson in how talented writing can be applied to genre fiction for the benefit of everyone involved.
		Martin Cruz Smith is one of the finest writers of fiction, and his works are true literature.
	www.amazon.com /Gorky-Park-Martin-Cruz-Smith/dp/0345298349 (1686 words)

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