Martin Cruz Smith

[David Casseres]

>Didn't he write that thriller about spies in that Moscow place.  Remember 
>a killer who cut off the victim's faces, who kinda worked for the KGB, 
>but was an American.  Made a pretty lousy movie with William Hurt and 
>Brian Deheny...Forget the title

Gorky Park.  The first of a trilogy (then come Polar Star and Red Square) 
which turns out to be the story of the fall of the Soviet Union.  Cruz 
Smith's writing is very conventional compared to most of what we discuss 
around here, but it's solid and full of truth.


Cheers,
David