Wolves Eat Dogs

Wolves Eat Dogs

Wolves Eat Dogs First edition cover

First edition
Author Martin Cruz Smith
Country United States
Language English
Series Arkady Renko # 5
Genre Crime novel
Published 2004
Publisher Simon & Schuster, Macmillan
Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages 352pp (hardback edition)
ISBN 0-684-87254-4
OCLC 55981782
813/.54 22
LC Class PS3569.M5377 W65 2004
Preceded by Havana Bay
Followed by Stalin's Ghost

Wolves Eat Dogs is a crime novel by Martin Cruz Smith, set in Russia and Ukraine in the year 2004. It is the fifth novel to feature Investigator Arkady Renko and the first one taking place during the new independent era.[1][2]

Plot

Russia has changed from a Communist to capitalist state, and Ukraine has seceded from the former Soviet Union. When Pavel "Pasha" Ivanov, one of the leading members of Russia's new billionaire class, dies in an apparent suicide, Renko investigates. Pasha fell from the balcony of his penthouse apartment, and all the signs point to his having been alone at the time. The only anomaly is a large mound of table salt in the victim's wardrobe.

Despite interference from his own boss as well as from other persons of power, Renko continues his investigation by questioning Pasha's friends and associates. There is apparently some kind of dark secret in Ivanov's past, and Pasha was always very depressed around May Day. Just before he is forcefully removed from the investigation, Arkady returns alone to Pasha's apartment and reconstructs his movements on the night he died. In the drawer of his bureau, Arkady finds a radiation dosimeter wrapped in a blood-stained handkerchief. Turning it on, he finds that the entire apartment is radioactive, the highest levels coming from the mound of salt. Arkady concludes that Ivanov did indeed commit suicide but that it was under a form of duress.

Explanation of the title

There are a number of possible interpretations of the title:

Allusions to real-life history, persons, or places

References

  1. Wroe, Nicholas, The Guardian (March 26, 2005). Crime Pays
  2. Petit, Chris, The Guardian (April 2, 2005). Dead zone
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