Independence Square is a 2023 crime fiction novel by American author Martin Cruz Smith. It is the tenth of Smith's works to feature fictional detective Arkady Renko, published 42 years after Renko's first appearance in Gorky Park. It is set partially in Moscow and largely in Kyiv and Russian-occupied Crimea. The events of the novel occur against the backdrop of the lead-up to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[1]