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Martin Cruz Smith, Bestselling Author of 'Gorky Park', Passes Away at 82
Martin Cruz Smith gave us thrillers with soul and silence that screamed. His final chapter arrives, but the echoes of his ...
The 20-minute flight that became the world’s first airplane hijacking
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.
Martin Cruz Smith, best-selling author of 'Gorky Park,' dies at 82
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.
‘Perla’ Review: An Artist Is Trapped on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain in a Tense Soviet-Era Saga
Alexandra Makarova's second feature portrays an exiled mother and painter who decides to return to her native Slovakia in the ...
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The CIA’s Most Dangerous Weapon: Books
Forget James Bond. George Minden was the real thing. A Romanian aristocrat by birth, he could have spent his days in manor ...
‘The Fantastic Four’ could have been a great American movie
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.
Will we know if the next plague is human-made?
In April of that year, patients started appearing at hospitals in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, now known as ...
How to achieve ‘Chipping Norton chic’ at home (by the woman who invented it)
From ditching white paint to why you should always carpet a bathroom, designer Susie Watson reveals her rules for country ...