Wolves eat dogs : a novel

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Title:

Wolves eat dogs : a novel

Author:

Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- author.

Series:

Arkady Renko ;

Series Number:

Summary:

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

Physical Description:

337 p. ; 25 cm.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Subject Term:

Renko, Arkady (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Police -- Fiction.

Billionaires -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Chornobylʹ (Ukraine) -- Fiction.

Moscow (Russia) -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Publication Date:

2004

ISBN:

9780684872544

Publication Information:

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Call Number:

SMITH

Holds: Copies:

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Summary

With Arkady Renko, Smith created one of the iconic sleuths of contemporary fiction. Renko returns to investigate international plots that drive one of Russia's billionaire businessmen to jump to his death.

Author Notes

Martin Cruz Smith is a writer of suspense novels. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on November 3, 1942 but grew up in New Mexico and the Philadelphia area. Smith earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Smith worked for local television stations, newspapers, and the Associated Press. His early work was published under the names Simon Quinn, Jake Logan, and Martin Smith. Smith is best known for a series of suspense/thrillers featuring Investigator Arkady Renko. The first of these books, Gorky Park, was published in 1981 and adapted as a film starring William Hurt and Lee Marvin two years later. An earlier film of his work, Nightwing, directed by Arthur Hiller, was released in 1979. Smith is a member of the Authors League of America and the Authors Guild.

In 2013 his title Tatiana made The New York Times Best Seller List. The Girl from Venice also became a bestseller.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Smith's melancholy, indefatigable Senior Investigator Arkady Renko has been exiled to some bitter venues in the past including blistering-hot Cuba in Havana Bay and the icy Bering sea in Polar Star but surely the strangest (and most fascinating) is his latest, the eerie, radioactive landscape of post-meltdown Chernobyl. Renko is called in to investigate the 10-story, plunge-to-the-pavement death of Pasha Ivanov, fabulously wealthy president of Moscow's NoviRus corporation, whose death is declared a suicide by Renko's boss, Prosecutor Zurin. Renko, being Renko, isn't sure it's suicide and wonders about little details like the bloody handprints on the windowsill and the curious matter of the closet filled with 50 kilos of salt. And why is NoviRus's senior vice-president Lev Timofeyev's nose bleeding? Renko asks too many questions, so an annoyed Zurin sends him off to Chernobyl to investigate when Timofeyev turns up in the cemetery in a small Ukrainian town with his throat slit and his face chewed on by wolves. The cemetery lies within the dangerously radioactive 30-kilometer circle called the Zone of Exclusion, populated by a contingent of scientists, a detachment of soldiers and those the elderly, the crooks, the demented who have sneaked back to live in abandoned houses and apartments. The secret of Ivanov and Timofeyev's deaths lies somewhere in the Zone, and the dogged Renko, surrounded by wolves both animal and human, refuses to leave until he unravels the mystery. It's the Zone itself and the story of Chernobyl that supplies the riveting backbone of this novel. Renko races around the countryside on his Uralmoto motorcycle, listening always to the ominous ticking of his dosimeter as it counts the dangerous levels of radioactivity present in the food, the soil, the air and the people themselves as they lie, cheat, love, steal, kill and die. Agent, Knox Burger. 7-city author tour. (Nov. 9) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Library Journal Review

When one of those really rich New Russians leaps to his death, who to call in but Arkady Renko of Gorky Park fame? (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.