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saparson's review
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Always enjoy spending time with Arkady Renko, even when his life and disappointments make me sad.
caropi's review against another edition
4.0
Is a pretty good book sounds interesting since the begining but gets more interesting after chapter5. I will not put any spoilers, so do not worry... I did not read [b:Gorky Park|762806|Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)|Martin Cruz Smith|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1390189430s/762806.jpg|90322] or any of the other books with Arkady Renko, as a matter of fact i never read [a:Martin Cruz Smith|8258|Martin Cruz Smith|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1252590168p2/8258.jpg] before, but I like it the narrative, also the story is very impressive, Cruz Smith details the story of Chernobyl and it´s survivors in such a way that make your spine shiver sometimes, the books gives you fiction and a glimpse of history, a history that is not that much in the past.....
arnicas's review
3.0
I mostly enjoyed this, especially the Chernobyl wastelands - but it really meandered without much going on other than atmosphere angst for a long time.
nigellicus's review
5.0
When a new Russian billionaire falls to his death poor old Renko just can't stop himself nosing around some of the odd corners of an apparent suicide, but he heardly expects as a result to end up zooming around the irradiated Exclusion Zone of Chernobyl with its ragged population of scientists, militia, hustlers, and displaced natives who have snuck back in. What's it all got to do with deadly tiny pieces of radioactive material found in a salt shaker under the dead man. Renko has little to go on, and in the haunting site of so much death, what can it possibly matter. But Renko does what Renko does, going down these mean irradiated streets who is not himself mean and irradiated.