Wolves Eat Dogs
 

Wolves Eat Dogs

by Martin Cruz Smith

"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... (read more)

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mjacobs
  • Rated 4 stars

Wolves eat Dogs is another Arkady Renko thriller (of Gorky Park fame)
Arkady Renko is one of those typical lonely, incorruptible and troubled investigators who go on against all odds, with complete disregard for personal safety and relationships. Why he acts as he does remains unclear - there is almost no introspection in these thrillers.
But the story is interesting enough, and the setting - modern post-communism Russia with its own maffia and millionaires (often the same thing)...

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  • Rated 3.5 stars
 

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  • Kathie C

    kathie c said:

    I listened to this on tape while driving. I have to admit at times I stayed in the car to complete a chapter before going in the house.

    posted Wednesday, February 6 2008
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