Wolves Eat Dogs, Martin Cruz Smith
Wolves Eat Dogs, Martin Cruz Smith
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Wolves Eat Dogs

Author: Martin Cruz Smith

Narrator: Henry Strozier

Unabridged: 11 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/04/2011

Synopsis

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.

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.

About Martin Cruz Smith

Martin Cruz Smith’s novels include Gorky Park, Stallion Gate, Nightwing, Polar Star, Stalin’s Ghost, Rose, December 6, Tatiana, The Girl from Venice, The Siberian Dilemma, and Independence Square. He is a two-time winner of the Hammett Prize, a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award and Britain’s Golden Dagger Award, and a winner of the Premio Piemonte Giallo Internazionale. He lives in California.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Mark on 2007-11-24 15:24:16

Excellent narration. Interesting view of the Chernobyl incident. Sympathetic characters.

Goodreads review by Barbara on October 22, 2021

3.5 stars In this fifth book in the 'Arkady Renko' series, the Moscow police detective is sent to the devastated area near Chernobyl to investigate a death. The book can be read as a standalone. ***** As the story opens it's 2004 and the Soviet Union has dissolved into separate states. Some savvy forme......more

Goodreads review by Mal on April 06, 2017

Over the years, I made two trips to the Soviet Union. The first time was in 1965, in the course of a four-month knockabout through the USSR, Eastern and Central Europe, and Scandinavia before my Peace Corps service started. (That was the trip during which I was threatened by East German Vopos (Volks......more

Goodreads review by Judy on July 13, 2016

After I read Voices From Chernobyl, someone told me about Wolves Eat Dogs. I am glad I read it because it makes a good companion piece to the other book. On the other hand, if I hadn't read Voices first, I would have been seriously lost. Because Smith's book is a political/crime thriller, the pace......more

Goodreads review by Bruce on December 01, 2009

I find detective novels, especially mysteries, a tough genre to review. On the one hand, you want to avoid spoilers so as not to spoil the fun. On the other, you still want to provide enough information to give prospective readers a reasonable sense of what to expect. I think there are no spoilers h......more

Goodreads review by Carla on August 14, 2008

I'm a Martin Cruz Smith fan. He doesn't fit easily into categories. Yes, his books are mysteries, in the sense there's a crime, but they're literature because they examine universal human longings, motives, desires, those of the detective as well as the people he meets on his way to solving the crim......more

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