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Carla
Aug 14, 2008 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: best-writing
I'm a Martin Cruz Smith fan. He doesn't fit easily into categories. Yes, his books are mysteries, in the sense there's a crime, but they're literature because they examine universal human longings, motives, desires, those of the detective as well as the people he meets on his way to solving the crime.
Wolves eats dogs explores the blasted landscape of the exclusion zone around Chernoble, where people not only are still living, but they are surprisingly populous. There are scientists and old peopl
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Jessica
Aug 05, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: russia, mystery
Renko tackles fallout in this one, both of the literal and emotional kind, with powerful results. I'll say, though, that I heartily recommend Atlas Obscura as a companion piece to this one - the link will take you to photos of this book's setting, and the site more broadly is pretty cool too. ...more
Pam
Feb 06, 2013 rated it liked it
Rebekah
Jun 17, 2014 marked it as to-read
Shelves: well-read
Kara
Jan 22, 2020 marked it as to-read