Georky Park, author of Havana Bay Martin Cruz Smith Mitt in 82

Martin Cruz Smith, the best -selling novelist who has participated for decades for decades Gorky Park And other excitement that includes the Moscow investigator Arkadi Renko, who died at the age of 82.

Smith died on Friday in a large living community in San Raphael, California, “surrounded by those who loved them,” according to his publisher Simon and Crostre.

Smith revealed a decade ago that he had Parkinson’s disease, and gave the same condition to his hero. His eleventh book Renko, Ukraine HotelIt was published this week and described it as the last.

“The length of life is associated with my ark.”

Smith was often praised for the novel’s novel and seeing it in modern Russia; He was talking about her interrogation at length by customs officials during his many trips there.

Associated Press The name Ukraine Hotel “Jawhara” supports Smith’s reputation as a wonderful craftsmanship of modern detectives with his sharply drawn characters, complicated characters and convincing plot. “

The beginnings as a journalist

It included the honor of Smith to be called “Grand Master” by the American ambiguity book, and he won the Hamit Award for Saleh Havana Bay And the Golden Dagger Award for Gorky Park.

Martin William Smith was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, he studied creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and started as a journalist, including a short period at the Associated Press and in Philadelphia Daily News.

Success was slowly as a author. It was a novelist published for more than a decade before he inspected in the early eighties with Gorky Park.

His novel came out when the Soviet Union and the Cold War were still alive and focused on Renko’s investigation of murders of three people whose bodies were found in the Moscow park that Smith used in the title of the book.

Gorky ParkThe New York Times cited as a reminder of “the extent of satisfying the excitement smoothly,” topped “ The best -selling book list in the Times and was later converted into a movie starring William Hert.

Watch | The 1983 trailer is a movie version of Gorky Park, based on Smith’s best -selling novel:

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“Russia is personal in my Rinko stories,” Smith told Pubshes Weekly in 2013.

“Gorky Park Perhaps it was one of the first books that took a background and made it in a personality. It took me forever to write because of my need to get things right. You have to climb the issue of “Does this man know what to talk about or not?”

Other Smith books include science fiction (The Indians won), Westerners North to Dakota and Ride and Romano Gray Series of mystery.

Besides “Martin Cruz Smith” – Cruz was the name of his mother grandmother – as he wrote under the names of the pen “Nick Carter” and “Simon Quinn”.

Recommended his trips

Smith Renko’s books were inspired in part through his own trips, and it was tracking the history of the region over the past forty years, whether the collapse of the Soviet Union (Red box) The rise of the Russian (Siberia dilemma) Or in the novel Wolves eat dogsCHORNOBYL 1986.

By the time when work began in his last novel, Russia invaded Ukraine.

I noticed AP in its review Ukraine Hotel Smith has invented the background “it was withdrawn directly from modern titles”, referring to world leaders such as Voludmir Zelinski from Ukraine and Vladimir Putin from Russia and former President Joe Biden from the United States

Smith survived his brother Jack Smith. His wife, Emily Smith; Three children and five grandchildren.