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
Abie Rotenberg Abie Rotenberg Abie Rotenberg () is a prolific Orthodox Jewish musician, composer and entertainer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been producing music since the mid-1970s with a style which has been described as "soft and sweet" with a strong folk influence. Rotenberg grew up in Queens, New York surrounded by other up and coming religious Jewish musicians, including Eli Teitelbaum, who directed the first "Pirchei" boys choir, as well as Rabbi Baruch Chait and Label Sharfman who attended "yeshiva" with him. Rotenberg studied piano and taught himself guitar at a young age. Rotenberg has cited musicians Rabbi Benzion Shenker,