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
Mordechai Rotenberg Mordechai Rotenberg Mordechai Rotenberg (1932 - ) () is an Israeli professor of social work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Mordechai Rotenberg was born in Breslau, Germany (today Wrocław, Poland). His father was from Warsaw, descended from Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter, the founder of the Hasidic sect. His father owned a publishing house in Breslau. In 1939, on the eve of World War II, the family immigrated to Palestine. Rotenberg's father opened a small printing press in Jerusalem. Rotenberg grew up in a Haredi household, with three brothers and a sister. In 1960, he graduated from the Hebrew University.