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Article: A SALTY SEQUEL AND A PROMISE FROM 'GORKY PARK' CREATOR
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 2, 1989
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POLAR STAR, By Martin Cruz Smith. Random House. 373 pp.
$19.95.
"Gorky Park" was a best seller because it was a good book, and
there hadn't been anything like it before. "Polar Star" is already
a best seller because it is the sequel to "Gorky Park." In most
respects, it is a good book, too.
Like its predecessor, "Polar Star" is a murder mystery.
"Gorky Park" began with the discovery of three corpses in an
unexpected place; "Polar Star" begins with the discovery of only
one corpse, but in an even more unexpected place -- the body of a
young woman comes up in a net full of fish that is being unloaded
on the Polar Star, a Soviet factory ship in the Bering Sea, between
Siberia and ...