No kidding, if he spent just two weeks in Moscow to get the
information, it
amazes me even more, as he happens to have a too deep
knowledge in all the
changes the country and the people have been through in the
last decades.
He's even a finer writer than I believed! Thanks for your
information.
Virginia
virginia@datalogic.es
>Virginia Rivas Perez asked about Martin Cruz Smith and
suggested that he
>must spend a lot of time in Russia. I don't know about
recently, but at
the
>time of the first Russian book, Gorky Park, it was
said that he spent two
>weeks in Moscow getting the settings and police
organization down.
>
>More recently, did he spend some time on a Russian
fishing boat? Did he go
>down in an English mine? I don't recall seeing any
articles about Smith.
>As suggested, he is a fine writer and Rose was an
excellent book. I've
>liked them all, the Gypsy books, Nightwings, Stallion
Gate and the rest.
>
>Cheers, Frank Denton
>
>
>
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