In the spring of 1986, radioactive dust from Chernobyl settled over the skies of Europe. Ecologists predicted the birth of two-headed sheep and other mutated life-forms. Martin Cruz Smith’s new thriller, Wolves Eat Dogs, unfolds in the Ukrainian flatlands round Chernobyl’s wrecked nuclear core. This is his fifth Inspector Renko story, and a welcome return to the former Soviet Union. (Havana Bay, Cruz Smith’s last Renko mystery, was set in Cuba.)

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