Word: cruz
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POLAR STAR by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House; $19.95). Smith sets Moscow investigator Arkady Renko (Gorky Park) off on another bizarre case, this one on a fishing boat on the Bering Sea; one dead body leads to others along an arc of increasing menace and violence...
POLAR STAR by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House; $19.95). In a sequel to his best-selling detective novel Gorky Park, Smith sets Moscow investigator Arkady Renko off on another bizarre case. The setting this time is a fishing boat on the Bering Sea; one dead body leads to others along an arc of increasing menace and violence...
...Martin Cruz Smith...
...Gorky Park (1981), Martin Cruz Smith showed a good way to turn one among the thousands of detective novels published annually into a runaway best seller. The three crucial steps: 1) construct a plot with plenty of corpses and exfoliating complexities; 2) provide a beleaguered and therefore sympathetic hero, one whose problem involves not only solving a crime but avoiding extermination by a small army of people who do not wish the truth to be known; 3) set the action in a place that is inaccessible and romantically forbidding -- in the case of Gorky Park, Moscow and environs...
Canepa has good reason to boast. His company, Concept Trailers, based in Santa Cruz, Calif., builds trucks for transporting race cars, crews, tools and supplies in classy comfort. His 50-ft. trailers, which sell for an average $275,000, hauled 30 of the 33 cars that were to take part in Sunday's Indianapolis...