Martin Cruz Smith gave us thrillers with soul and silence that screamed. His final chapter arrives, but the echoes of his ...

Miss Macao, a Consolidated Model 28 Catalina seaplane, crashed into the sea during a scheduled flight to Hong Kong. There was only one survivor, but his story didn’t add up.

He wrote more than 30 novels, including an acclaimed series about Russian detective Arkady Renko. The first volume, "Gorky Park," was made into a 1983 film.