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Martin Cruz Smith, Best-Selling Author of ‘Gorky Park,’ Dies at 82

Martin Cruz Smith, Best-Selling Author of ‘Gorky Park,’ Dies at 82

He startled critics, readers and the book industry in 1981 with a novel set in the Soviet Union that had a flawed detective as its antihero.

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