A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and New York police as he performs the impossible–and tries to stay alive doing it. 

"Superb ….. from the opening pages where three frozen and mutilated corpses have just been discovered in the snow of Moscow’s Gorky Park to the grand finale" NEW YORK TIMES

"Straight to the top of the international thriller class" THE GUARDIAN