Wolves Eat Dogs

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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. Russia has changed from a Communist to capitalist state, and the 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 powerful people, including his own boss, attempting to halt Renko''s investigation, he continues to question Pasha''s friends and associates, some of whom hint that Pasha had some kind of dark secret in his past, and that Pasha was always very depressed around May Day.... Mehr