Wolves Eat Dogs (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786271299 ISBN 13: 9780786271290

Synopsis

In the wake of a businessman's suicide, Moscow detective Arkady Renko investigates secrets and international plots that may have driven him to his death, in a case that leads Renko to discover crimes in the area surrounding Chernobyl.

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Review

The latest of Smith's thrillers about honest Russian cop Arkady Renko, Wolves Eat Dogs has a memorably spooky opening as Renko prowls the apartment of one of the men who has done well out of privatization and neo-capitalism and has suddenly jumped out of a tenth floor window. The dead man's cupboard is full of salt and he was clutching a salt-shaker when he died--no-one wants to investigate madness, but Renko suspects that there is more to it than that. When the dead man's partner turns up with his throat cut in a cemetery in the Ukraine, his bosses get him out of their hair by sending him to investigate--in the overgrown deserted towns and returning woodlands around the radioactive ruins of the Chernobyl power plant. A place full of deadly legacies and ruined hopes is just the sort of place where Renko feels at home, and where secrets are as common as giant mutant catfish. The mystery is less impressive here than the atmosphere--Smith gives the attentive reader more clues than merely playing fair demands--but with atmosphere so intense that hardly matters. --Roz Kaveney

Review

"Martin Cruz Smith is a master of the international thriller."

-- "The New York Times"

"Martin Cruz Smith is the master of the international thriller."

-- The New York Times

"Martin Cruz Smith and Detective Arkady Renko are irresistible."

-- Time

"An engrossing mystery with a satisfyingly slam-bang conclusion."

-- The Boston Herald

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786271299
• ISBN 13: 9780786271290
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 503