Wolves Eat Dogs
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Written by Martin Cruz Smith.
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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: 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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Brad Shimp thinks this book is Excellent.
Wolves Eat Dogs is not your normal whodunit. The novel deals with themes from the corruption of post-Communist Russia to the radiation of Chernobyl and its aftermath. In the end, this book is more about the lives of its characters than the deaths they are trying to solve. The book portrays a strong feeling of what it is like to live in the aftermath of something horrible, and how hard it is to put the pieces back together. In the end, even if you can find all of the pieces, maybe it is better to just move on and try to start over.
This novel falls somewhere between the crime genre and literature, taking the best of both worlds for a easy read to speaks to something deeper than you get in pop culture.