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Russia's mean streets; Detective Arkady Renko packs his bags for Chernobyl, where scavengers stalk empty towns and woods are full of howling wolves.(Book Review)
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Byline: FRANCIS SPUFFORD
Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith (Macmillan, [pounds sterling]17.99) POOR Arkady Renko has been beaten up by Russian history ever since Martin Cruz Smith invented him in the early Eighties in Gorky Park. A classic good cop, he collides with whoever occupies the seat of power, and passes, mangled, through the main trauma of the moment, whatever that happens to be.
In Gorky Park he was up against the dead-eyed old corruption of Brezhnev's dotage. In Polar Star, he was a disgraced fish-gutter on a rustbucket Arctic factory ship, desperately in ...
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