Arkady Renko Cuba; "Wolves Eat Dogs" is set in Moscow and in the areas affected by the Chernobyl disaster. "Stalin's Ghost", published in 2007, returns Arkady to a Russia now presided over by Vladimir Putin, followed by "Three Stations" published in 2010 and "Tatiana" in 2013. In 1983 "Gorky Park" was adapted as a film starring William Hurt as Renko. Arkady Renko Arkady Renko is a fictional detective who is the central character of eight novels by the American writer Martin Cruz Smith. In "Gorky Park", the first novel, he is a chief investigator for the Soviet Militsiya in Moscow, where he
Robert Rotenberg throughout his career. While in Europe in the early 1980s, he was the managing editor of English-language magazine "Passion, The Magazine of Paris". When he returned to Canada, he and a partner founded and published "T.O. The Magazine of Toronto", which ran for six years and folded in 1988 . After brief stints as a film executive and a CBC Radio producer, Rotenberg returned to law. He and associates Alvin Shidlowski and Jacob Jesin have had a criminal law practice in Toronto since the early 1990s defending, as Rotenberg describes it, "everything from murder to shoplifting." Cases attracting particular attention