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In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created a famous investigator of modern fiction. Silently subversive, brilliantly analytical, and haunted by melancholy, Arkady Renko survived, barely, the journey from the Soviet Union to the Brand New Russia, simply to find his transformed nation just like enthusiastic about crime and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. In Wolves Eat Dogs, Renko returns for his most enigmatic and baffling case: the death of 1 of Russia's new billionaires, that leads him to Chernobyl and the Zone of Exclusion -- closed to the planet since 1986's atomic catastrophe. It's still aglow with radioactivity, now inhabited only by the militia, shady scavengers, several reckless scientists, and some elderly peasants who won't move.