In the first major case of his literary career, Gorky Park, Moscow detective Arkady Renko antagonized too many powerful people. Martin Cruz Smith now lives in San Rafael, California with his wife and three children. He also wrote the Nick Carter: Killmaster series under the alias Nick Carter with Mike Avallone and others. In the 1970s, Smith wrote The Inquisitor Series under the pseudonym Simon Quinn and penned two Slocum adult action westerns as Jake Logan. Renko has also appeared in Polar Star, Red Square, Havana Bay, Wolves Eat Dogs, Stalin's Ghost, and Three Stations. It became a bestseller and won the Gold Dagger Award from the British Crime Writers' Association. Gorky Park, published in 1981, was the first of these and was called "thriller of the '80s" by Time Magazine. Smith is best known for his series of novels featuring Russian investigator Arkady Renko. Nightwing was his breakthrough novel and was made into a movie. His first mystery ( Gypsy in Amber – 1971) features NY gypsy art dealer Roman Grey and was nominated for an Edgar Award. He worked as a journalist from 1965 to 1969 before turning his hand to fiction. Martin Cruz Smith (born Martin William Smith), American novelist, received his BA in Creative Writing from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964.
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