VJ Books Presents Author Martin Smith Cruz!
Martin Cruz Smith was born Martin William Smith, but changed his middle name to his grandmother's surname, Cruz. Smith is the son of a white jazz musician and a Pueblo Indian jazz singer.
One thing that sets Smith's work apart from other thrillers is the breadth and depth of his research. Before writing Gorky Park, the author visited Moscow, befriended exiled Russians and read scores of Russian newspapers and magazines in translation. For Rose, he spent weeks in Lancashire talking with miners and visiting mines.
His latest novel, Independence Square, is his 10th book to feature Arkady Renko, whose story began over 40 years ago in Gorky Park. It focuses on the fraught and frenzied days leading up to Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine
Smith is a two-time winner of the Hammett Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers.
Smith lives in California.
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Martin Cruz Smith Bibliography
Novels
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Gorky Park - 1981
- Stallion Gate - 1987
- Polar Star - 1989
- Red Square - 1992
- Rose - 1996
- Havana Bay - 1999
- December 6 - 2002
- Wolves Eat Dogs - 2004
- Stalin's Ghost - 2007
- Three Stations - 2010
- Tatiana - 2013
- The Siberian Dilemma - 2019
- Independence Square - 2023
Martin Cruz Smith Awards
- Goldsboro Gold Award - 1981
- Hammett Prize - 1996, 1999
- Piemonte Grinzane Noir Prize - 2008
- Left Coast Crime Lifetime Achievement Award - 2011
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