Martin Cruz Smith Popular Books
Martin Cruz Smith Biography & Facts
Martin Cruz Smith, born Martin William Smith (November 3, 1942) is an American writer of mystery and suspense fiction, mostly in an international or historical setting. He is best known for his ten-novel series (to date) on Russian investigator Arkady Renko, introduced in 1981 with Gorky Park. The tenth book in the series, Independence Square, was published in May 2023. Early life and education Martin William Smith was born in Reading, Pennsylvania to John Calhoun Smith, jazz musician and Louise Lopez, an American Indian of Pueblo descent, jazz singer, teacher, Amerindian rights militant, and Miss New Mexico in 1939. Martin was educated at Germantown Academy, in Ft Washington, Pennsylvania, then at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing in 1964. He is of partly Pueblo, Spanish, Senecu del Sur and Yaqui ancestry. Career Smith worked as a journalist from 1965 to 1969 and began writing fiction in the early 1970s. He wrote two Slocum adult action Western novels under the pen name Jake Logan. He has also written a number of other paperback originals, including a series about a character named "The Inquisitor", a James Bond-type agent employed by the Vatican; and a science fiction novel, The Indians Won (1970), one of the earliest works of Native American speculative fiction to see wide publication. He wrote three novels in the Nick Carter series. Canto for a Gypsy, Smith's third novel overall and the second to feature Roman Grey, a gypsy art dealer in New York City, was nominated for an Edgar Award. Nightwing (1977), also an Edgar nominee, was his breakthrough novel, and he adapted it for a feature film of the same name (1979). Smith is best known for his novels featuring Russian investigator Arkady Renko, whom he introduced in Gorky Park (1981). The novel, which Time called the "first thriller of the '80s", became a bestseller and won a Gold Dagger Award from the British Crime Writers' Association. Renko has since appeared in nine other novels by Smith. Gorky Park debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list on April 26, 1981 and occupied the top spot for a week. It stayed in the No. 2 position for over three months, beaten only by James Clavell's Noble House, and stayed in the top 15 through November of that year. Polar Star also claimed the No. 1 spot for two weeks on August 6, 1989, and held the No. 2 spot for over two months. During the 1990s, Smith twice won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers. The first time was for Rose in 1996; the second time was for Havana Bay in 1999. On September 5, 2010, he and Arkady Renko returned to the New York Times bestseller list when Three Stations debuted at No. 7 on the fiction bestsellers list. His most recent novel featuring Renko is Independence Square (2023). Pseudonym He originally wrote under the name "Martin Smith", only to discover there were other writers with the same name. His agent asked Smith to add a third name and Smith chose Cruz, his paternal grandmother's surname. Personal life Smith lives in San Rafael, California, with his family. Bibliography Romano Grey books (as Martin Smith) Gypsy in Amber New York: Putnam, [1971] ISBN 0-399-10386-4 Canto for a Gypsy New York: Putnam, [1972] ISBN 978-0-399-11024-5 The Inquisitor Series (as Simon Quinn) The Devil in Kansas (1974) (The Inquisitor Series #1) The Last Time I Saw Hell (1974) (The Inquisitor Series #2) Nuplex Red (1974) (The Inquisitor Series #3) His Eminence, Death (1974) (The Inquisitor Series #4) The Midas Coffin (1975) (The Inquisitor Series #5) Last Rites for the Vulture (1975) (The Inquisitor Series #6) Arkady Renko books Gorky Park New York: Random House, 1981 ISBN 978-0-394-51748-3 Polar Star New York: Random House, 1989 ISBN 978-0-394-57819-4 Red Square New York: Random House, 1992 ISBN 978-0-679-41688-3 Havana Bay New York: Random House, 1999 ISBN 978-0-679-42662-2 Wolves Eat Dogs New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004 ISBN 978-0-684-87254-4 Stalin's Ghost New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007 ISBN 978-0-7432-7672-6 Three Stations New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010 ISBN 978-0-7432-7674-0 Tatiana New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013 ISBN 978-1-8498-3810-8 The Siberian Dilemma New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019 ISBN 978-1-4391-4025-3 Independence Square New York: Simon & Schuster, 2023 ISBN 978-1-6431-3325-6 Other books The Indians Won (1970) The Analog Bullet (1972) Inca Death Squad (1972) (as Nick Carter) The Devil's Dozen (1973) (as Nick Carter) Code Name: Werewolf (1973) (as Nick Carter) The Human Factor (1975) (as Simon Quinn) The Wilderness Family (1975) (as Martin Quinn) North to Dakota (a Slocum western) (1976) (as Jake Logan) Ride for Revenge (a Slocum western) (1977) (as Jake Logan) Nightwing (1977) Stallion Gate (1986). ISBN 0-345-31079-9 Rose (1996) December 6 (2002) (also published as Tokyo Station) The Girl from Venice (2016) References External links Official website Martin Cruz Smith at IMDb. Discover the Martin Cruz Smith popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Martin Cruz Smith books.
Best Seller Martin Cruz Smith Books of 2024
-
Gorky Park
Martin Cruz SmithThe Arkady Renko book that started it all: the #1 bestseller Gorky Park, an espionage classic that begins the series, by Martin Cruz Smith, “the master of the international thrille...
-
Scorpion Trail
Geoffrey ArcherAlex Crawford has been out of MI5 and the combat zone for twenty years, but now fate has thrust him back into the front line.Though he is an aid worker, the secret service minders ...
-
Canto for a Gypsy
Martin Cruz SmithGypsy antique dealer Roman Grey is back in one of Martin Cruz Smith’s most beloved novelsthe exciting and fastpaced Canto for a Gypsy.The priceless Royal Crown of Hungary is on di...
-
The City of God
Michael RussellItaly, 1943. Irish detective Stefan Gillespie leaves the chaos of Nazioccupied Rome for neutral Switzerland on a mission his government knows nothing about. Waiting for a latenigh...
-
The Girl from Venice
Martin Cruz SmithFrom Martin Cruz Smith, “a master of the international thriller” (The New York Times), a suspenseful World War II love story set against the beauty, mystery, and danger of occupied...
-
Gypsy in Amber
Martin Cruz SmithFrom “the master of the international thriller” (The New York Times) and the bestselling author of Tatiana and Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith’s first mystery novela classic crime wh...
-
The Venetian Game
Philip Gwynne Jones'An unputdownable thriller' Gregory Dowling'It is no surprise to find that Philip Gwynne Jones lives in Venice... art and architecture interweave into a story that builds to an alm...
-
The Dead City
Michael RussellIn this dead city, the vultures are circling...Berlin 1944. The beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. And the beginning of a dark journey for Garda detective Stefan Gillespie as h...
-
Nightwing
Martin Cruz SmithFrom Martin Cruz Smith, the internationally bestselling author of Gorky Park, comes a reissue of Nightwing, the millioncopy bestseller that Stephen King called “one of the best hor...
-
Dream Lover
Katrina Vincenzi-ThyneFilm producer Gemma de la Mare takes a break in Brittany before starting work on her latest production, entitled "Tales of a Vampire". Whilst there, she begins to feel as i...
-
A Waiting Game
Juliet HastingsKidnapping is a particularly cruel crime. Wealth and the friendship of the chief Constable are of no help to Robert and Joanna Hamilton when their young son and his nanny are held ...
-
Palace of Treason
Jason MatthewsRed Sparrow is now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton!The thrilling sequel to Red SparrowCIA insider Jason Matthews’s compulsively readable New Yor...
-
The City in Darkness
Michael RussellAn evocative, literary crime thriller set in Dublin and Spain just before the outbreak of WWII.Christmas 1939. In Europe the Phoney War hides carnage to come. In Ireland Detective ...
-
Tatiana
Martin Cruz SmithMartin Cruz Smith's “masterful” (USA TODAY) and “irresistible” (People) New York Times bestseller and Washington Post notable book of the year: Arkady Renko must connect the dots a...
-
Red Sparrow
Jason MatthewsNow a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton! From the New York Times bestselling author and veteran CIA officer Jason Matthews comes the electrifying mo...
-
The City Underground
Michael RussellIreland 1941. A German spy escapes from Mountjoy Prison, clearly with inside help. Yet no one wants to catch him. When the head of Garda Special Branch sends Inspector Stefan Gille...
-
Shadow Hunter
Geoffrey ArcherOne renegade captain threatens disasterHMS Truculent is a nuclearpowered, hunterkiller submarine, and one of the most deadly weapon systems in the world. Phil Hitchens is its disti...
-
Flash Point
Matt Croucher GCDan Coldrain is a former elite Royal Marine Commando haunted by the death of his best mate Reese, killed in action by enemy forces. Coldrain used to believe in honour, service, and...
-
Dolphin Drone
James Ottar GrundvigA taught, highconcept thriller that humanizes the men and women behind military espionage.James Grundvig’s Dolphin Drone takes us into the complex underworld of global terrorism wi...
-
Martin Cruz Smith eBook Boxed Set
Martin Cruz SmithStalin's GhostInvestigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: latenight subway rider...
-
Fire Hawk
Geoffrey ArcherSam Packer of the British Secret Service knows a mission to Iraq is dangerous. But none more dangerous than this one.A whispered secret in a Baghdad hotel lobby leads to his kidnap...
-
Wolves Eat Dogs
Martin Cruz SmithA Moscow detective is sent to Chernobyl for a frightening case in the most spectacular entry yet in Martin Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko series.In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin...
-
The City in Flames
Michael Russell1940. A woman lands on the Scottish coast from a German flying boat and goes to ground, hunted by British Intelligence.Suspended from the Irish police for reasons he won't explain...
-
The Little Demon
Fyodor Sologub & Ronald WilksA dark classic of Russia's silver age, this blackly funny novel recounts a schoolteacher's descent into sadism, arson and murder.Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provi...
-
Moskva
Jack GrimwoodLonglisted for the 2017 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller'Even better than Child 44' Daily Telegraph'Given that the definitive thriller in 1980's Moscow already exist...
-
Der Afghane
Frederick ForsythEin Anschlag soll die Welt erschüttern. Nur ein Mann kann ihn verhindern – wenn er scheitert, werden Unschuldige sterben.Als der britische und amerikanische Geheimdienst eine Terro...
-
Lydia In The Harem
Philippa MastersThe Boer War has erupted in Africa and Lydia must sail for England. She looks forward to her voyage with a crew of lusty mariners. When the ship is forced to dock in Arabia, a Prin...
-
The Siberian Dilemma
Martin Cruz SmithFrom the awardwinning, bestselling author of Gorky Park and Tatiana comes a breathtaking new novel about investigator Arkady Renko“one of the most compelling figures in modern fict...
-
The City Under Siege
Michael Russell1941, and Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is ferrying documents between Dublin and wartorn London. When Ireland's greatest actor is arrested in Soho, after the brutal murder o...
-
Intimate Games
Julia MarloweAfter meeting the enigmatic and persuasive Gilles de Ravennes at her exhusband's party, Ariane Fontaine takes him on board as a partner in the exclusive club she has created at her...
-
Red Sparrow Trilogy eBook Boxed Set
Jason MatthewsRed Sparrow is now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton!Now available in a single collection, the complete electrifying New York Times bestselling tr...