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A review by misfitmoxie
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
4.0
I remember reading this back when it could seem real... during the cold war. It was really the first thriller-type book I ever read. To this day I remember things about it... constructing the gun from bits and pieces in the luggage disguised to make it through customs and how the dancer's body was described early on in the book, for instance. The descriptions were lush while the story was both intense and believable in that time.
Back in 2001 I happened upon a copy when I had NOTHING else around and was very isolated. It was such a different experience to read it so many years after the cold war had ended. Our entire mindset is different now. It's unbelievable that whole generations don't know that kind of gripping fear, that constant tension that that time held. They therefore also don't know the epic stories of fighting a war that wasn't a war... the intrigue, the forbidden, the secret heroes.
Back in 2001 I happened upon a copy when I had NOTHING else around and was very isolated. It was such a different experience to read it so many years after the cold war had ended. Our entire mindset is different now. It's unbelievable that whole generations don't know that kind of gripping fear, that constant tension that that time held. They therefore also don't know the epic stories of fighting a war that wasn't a war... the intrigue, the forbidden, the secret heroes.