A review by nigellicus
Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith

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.