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.

Alexandra Makarova's second feature portrays an exiled mother and painter who decides to return to her native Slovakia in the ...

Forget James Bond. George Minden was the real thing. A Romanian aristocrat by birth, he could have spent his days in manor ...

The source material is full of anti-totalitarian and patriotic themes, but the film adaptation missed the chance to make a statement for our moment.

In April of that year, patients started appearing at hospitals in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, now known as ...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...

A European football tie cancelled due to Cold War-era tensions was finally completed in Northern Ireland on Saturday, 65 ...

Ironheart finally pulled back the curtain on the man pulling the strings – and supplying the Hood – behind Parker Robbins' ...

Gary Shteyngart's 'Vera, or Faith,' and a painstakingly researched history of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan at the end of ...

The book’s real heroes of course are the brave individuals in the communist bloc countries who were actually smuggling in the banned books — like Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm, and Aleksandr ...