Wolves Eat Dogs
By: Martin Cruz Smith
Edition: 1st Pocket Books trade pbk. ed. (1)
Series: Arkady Renko
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2006-01
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Trade Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780671775957
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Billionaires; Police; Arkady Renko (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created an iconic detective of contemporary fiction. Quietly subversive, brilliantly analytical, and haunted by melancholy, Arkady Renko survived, barely, the journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find his transformed nation just as obsessed with corruption and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship.

In Wolves Eat Dogs, Renko returns for his most enigmatic and baffling case yet: the death of one of Russia’s new billionaires, which leads him to Chernobyl and the Zone of Exclusion—closed to the world since 1986’s nuclear disaster. It is still aglow with radioactivity, now inhabited only by the militia, shady scavengers, a few reckless scientists, and some elderly peasants who refuse to relocate. Renko’s journey to this ghostly netherworld, the crimes he uncovers there, and the secrets they reveal about the New Russia make for an unforgettable adventure.
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Notes: Originally published by Simon & Schuster in 2004.
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