Martin Cruz Smith

Born in 1942 to a jazz musican father and a New Mexico Puebloan nightclub singer mother, Martin Cruz Smith is world renowned as "a master of the International thriller" (New York Times). His novels include Gorky Park, Stallion Gate, Nightwing, Polar Star, and many more. He is a two-time winner of the Hammett Prize and a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, the Crime Writers’ Association of the United Kingdom’s Golden Dagger Award, and the Premio Piemonte Giallo Internazionale. He lives in California.