Overview
- Smith died at age 82 in San Rafael, California, surrounded by loved ones, his publisher Simon & Schuster confirmed.
- His 11th Renko thriller, Hotel Ukraine, debuted this week with a plot drawn from contemporary headlines.
- He disclosed his Parkinson’s diagnosis in 2015 and gave the same condition to his protagonist.
- Gorky Park topped The New York Times fiction bestseller list and was adapted into a film starring William Hurt.
- After starting as a journalist at the Associated Press and Philadelphia Daily News, Smith earned the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, the Hammett Prize and a Gold Dagger.