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.

Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942-; Corgatelli, Rosa S

Grupo Ilhsa S.a.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2005

1a ed, Buenos Aires, 2005

Argentina, Argentina

302 pages ; 24 cm
"¿Por qu? alguien saltar por una ventana con un salero?" Una buena pregunta, especialmente cuando la v?ctima de suicidio es Pasha Ivanov, un hombre de negocios en Mosc? el f?sico convertido en multimillonario - una "Nueva Rusia" muchacho del cartel, si alguna vez hubo una - con varias casas, una novia de piernas largas de 20 a?os de edad ("el tipo [de la rubia] que podr?an citar a la atenci?n de la brisa"), y la raz?n todos los que se contenta en su edad madura. As?, se pregunta Investigador Arkady Renko, en perros Mart?n Cruz Smith Coma Lobos, lo que provoc? Ivanov a tomar un cabezazo de su elegante apartamento de 10? piso? ¿Y c?mo se relaciona con el agitador apret? en su mano muerta o el cerro de la sal de mesa que se encuentran en el piso de su armario?
"Why would anyone jump out a window with a saltshaker?" A good question, especially when the suicide victim is Pasha Ivanov, a Moscow physicist-turned-billionaire businessman--a "New Russian" poster boy, if ever there was one--with several homes, a leggy 20-year-old girlfriend ("the kind [of blonde] who could summon the attention of a breeze"), and every reason to be contented in his middle age. So, wonders Senior Investigator Arkady Renko, in Martin Cruz Smith's Wolves Eat Dogs, what provoked Ivanov to take a header from his stylish 10th-floor apartment? And how does it relate to the shaker clutched in his dead hand or the hillock of table salt found on his closet floor?

2023-06-28