Status Updates From Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)

Man, I’m struggling

Still loving the book; this comment is more about me as a reader:

It’s kind of a curse to notice errors in a book, in this case a typo (the “p” missing from “disappear”) and a misspelling (of “euthanized”) within a 10-page spread. It’s hard to be perfect as an editor, but I’ve read hundreds of books in which I’ve seen no errors. Maybe spellcheck didn’t exist in 1983, when this edition came out.

I just looked at IMDB to see who was cast in the early 1980s movie version of this so-far-mesmerizing detective story. I had imagined a James Coburn or Lee Marvin as Osborne and Brian Dennehy as Kirwill, and damned if that’s not who they cast (Marvin and Dennehy, to be precise). Their casting director was a genius.