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Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith6/29/2023 ![]() 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. 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. A Moscow detective is sent to Chernobyl for a frightening case in the most spectacular entry yet in Martin Cruz Smiths Arkady Renko series. 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. ![]() 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. ![]() The setting of the novel is Wigan, an English town. In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created an iconic detective of contemporary fiction. The protagonist of the novel is Jonathan Blair who is an engineer and an explorer and must solve a case involving the disappearance of a local curate and an accident in the mines that killed 76 people. A Moscow detective is sent to Chernobyl for a frightening case in the most spectacular entry yet in Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko series. ![]()
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