Talk:Martin Cruz Smith

Additional Citations?

What caused the addition of the "needs additional citation" mark? What must be added, where, to get rid of that? Much thanx. RayKiddy (talk) 21:28, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

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Smith, writing as Jake Logan, has written over 300 of the Slocum westerns, and is in fact the most prolific western writer living today.This is ridiculous. Go to the nearest bookstore and find out what you are talking about.OVER 317 TITLES.NOT TWO.Even easier would be to type slocum westerns into the yahoo search.Saltforkgunman 04:24, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Now someone is saying that Smith did not write all the Slocum westerns.I have never heard this and am interested in proof.The fact is,that I learned many years ago that Jake Logan was Martin Cruz Smith watching Jeapordy Saltforkgunman 04:24, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

OR

I moved this section out of the article:

Smith's protagonists and adversaries, particularly in the Arkady Renko series, seem to follow a pattern, which the novels Rose and Canto for a Gypsy also demonstrate. Of particular note is the theme of an implacable foe who sometimes, at the end, plays out his obsessions to the advantage of the protagonist, while nominally friendly characters emerge as corrupt and evil. Thus in the first Renko novel, Gorky Park, the foe is Pribluda, a KGB operative, who is eventually portrayed as a driven but sympathetic character. In the later novel, Havana Bay, Renko is in Cuba to investigate Pribluda's death, but is faced by a murderous Cuban practitioner of Santeria, whose final acts, driven by his religion, take care of the real villains. In Polar Star, the second Renko novel, Karp Korobetz, whom Renko had previously sent to jail, is the ambivalent foe. In the following novel, Red Square, it is a Chechen gangster, initially bent on killing Renko to avenge his father. The foe may be driven by ideology, religion, or ethnic prejudice, as in Canto for a Gypsy where a Hungarian shows deep prejudice against Rom (Gypsies), while revelling in their relationship to his culture. In Stallion Gate the protagonist is a Native American soldier with a record of drunkenness, while the foe is the racist and anti-Semitic Captain Augustino, bent on framing Robert Oppenheimer, who is also a character in the novel.

• It is all WP:OR. While I would love to expand the article, the text needs to be sourced. Levi P. 03:28, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Stallion Gate's protagonist was many things, but he didn't have a record of drunkenness. Axeman89 02:16, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

ethnic calculation?

What does this mean in the article: (In other words, no publisher, no ethnic calculation.)? Is an "ethnic calculation" a good thing or a bad thing, and precisly how does the publisher fit into it? Maybe I'm being thick-headed here, but this needs better explaination. 70.20.148.167 00:35, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

citation for time magazine quote in career section regarding gorky park

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,922529,00.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.222.132.184 (talk) 10:24, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Yes, that is the article. However, the sentence (re: "thriller of the '80s") reads, "But it is an auspicious opening for Gorky Park, the first thriller of the '80s with polish, wit and moral resonance." It was the first (as of 1981) to do something, not the greatest of the '80s, which the quote in this Wikipedia article suggests. As such, it should probably be removed. Cermus (talk) 06:16, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Errors?

A sentence here reads "His first mystery, Canto for a Gypsy (1973) — featuring Roman Grey, a gypsy art dealer in New York City, New York — was nominated for an Edgar Award". But Canto for a Gypsy wasn't his first mystery, and wasn't published in 1973. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:22, 4 February 2012 (UTC)