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  <name><![CDATA[Martin Cruz Smith]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Martin Cruz Smith (né Martin William Smith) is an American novelist. 

Smith was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and received a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing in 1964. From 1965 to 1969 he worked as a journalist, and began writing fiction in the early 1970s. His first mystery, featuring a Gypsy art dealer in New York named Roman Grey, Gypsy in Amber (1971), was nominated for an Edgar Award. Nightwing was his breakthrough novel and was made into a movie.

Smith is best known for his novels featuring the Russian Investigator Arkady Renko. In 1981, Smith wrote Gorky Park, which was called the &quot;thriller of the '80s&quot; by Time Magazine. It became a bestseller and won a Gold Dagger Award from the British Crime Writers' Association. Renko has appeared in five other novels by Smith, Polar Star, Red Square, Havana Bay, Wolves Eat Dogs and Stalin's Ghost.

In the 1970s, Smith wrote two Slocum adult action westerns, under the pen name Jake Logan. Smith also wrote a number of other paperback originals, including a series about a character named 'The Inquisitor', who can be described as a James Bond-type agent employed by the Vatican. He also writes under the name Simon Quinn.

Martin Cruz Smith now lives in San Rafael, California with his wife and three children.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Reading, Pennsylvania</hometown>  <born_at>11/03/1942</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)]]></title>
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  <average_rating>3.86</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1098</ratings_count>
  <published>1981</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Polar Star]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Martin Cruz Smith]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.81</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>410</ratings_count>
  <published>1989</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Stalin's Ghost]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Martin Cruz Smith]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.54</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>377</ratings_count>
  <published>2006</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Wolves Eat Dogs]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Martin Cruz Smith]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.70</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>331</ratings_count>
  <published>2004</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Havana Bay]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Martin Cruz Smith]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.61</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>334</ratings_count>
  <published>1999</published>  
  
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        <book id="151347">
  <title><![CDATA[Rose]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Martin Cruz Smith]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.64</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>283</ratings_count>
  <published>1996</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Red Square]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Martin Cruz Smith]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.79</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>261</ratings_count>
  <published>1992</published>  
  
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        <book id="675840">
  <title><![CDATA[December 6]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Martin Cruz Smith]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.64</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>181</ratings_count>
  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Stallion Gate]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Martin Cruz Smith]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.46</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>118</ratings_count>
  <published>1986</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Nightwing]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Martin Cruz Smith]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.33</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>57</ratings_count>
  <published>1977</published>  
  
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