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
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