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Wolves Eat Dogs is a crime novel
Crime

Societies define Crime as the breach of one or more rules or laws for which some Government or force may ultimately prescribe a punishment.The word crime originates from the Latin crimen , from the Latin root cerno and Greek ????? = "I judge"....
 by Martin Cruz Smith
Martin Cruz Smith

Martin Cruz Smith was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1942. He originally wrote under the name Martin Smith only to discover there were other writers with the same name....
, set in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 and Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
 in the year 1996. It is the fifth novel to feature Investigator Arkady Renko
Arkady Renko

Arkady Renko is a fictional detective who is the central character of six novels by the United States of America writer Martin Cruz Smith.In Gorky Park , the first novel, he is a chief investigator for the Soviet Union Militsiya in Moscow, where he is in charge of homicide investigations....
.

Russia has changed from a Communist
Communism

Communism is a socioeconomic structure and political ideology that promotes the establishment of an egalitarianism, classlessness, stateless society based on common ownership and control of the means of production and property in general....
 to capitalist
Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system in which wealth, and the means of producing wealth, are private property and controlled rather than commonly, publicly, or state-owned and controlled....
 state, and the Ukraine has seceded from the former Soviet Union. Renko is investigating the apparent suicide
Suicide

Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life. Many dictionaries also note the metaphorical sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest"....
 of one of the most powerful businessmen in Russia. An anomaly is a large mound of salt in the victim's wardrobe. Despite powerful people attempting to halt Renko's investigation, he continues, and as a result is sent away to Ukraine to look into a related murder.

Much of the story is set in the "dead zone
Zone of alienation

The Zone of Alienation, which is variously referred to as The Chernobyl Zone, The 30 Kilometer Zone, The Zone of Exclusion, The Fourth Zone, or simply The Zone is the 30 km/19 mi exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl disaster....
", the evacuated and contaminated area around the site of the Chernobyl disaster
Chernobyl disaster

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear reactor accident in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. It is considered to be the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history and the only level 7 instance on the International Nuclear Event Scale....
 in Ukraine.






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Wolves Eat Dogs is a crime novel
Crime

Societies define Crime as the breach of one or more rules or laws for which some Government or force may ultimately prescribe a punishment.The word crime originates from the Latin crimen , from the Latin root cerno and Greek ????? = "I judge"....
 by Martin Cruz Smith
Martin Cruz Smith

Martin Cruz Smith was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1942. He originally wrote under the name Martin Smith only to discover there were other writers with the same name....
, set in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 and Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
 in the year 1996. It is the fifth novel to feature Investigator Arkady Renko
Arkady Renko

Arkady Renko is a fictional detective who is the central character of six novels by the United States of America writer Martin Cruz Smith.In Gorky Park , the first novel, he is a chief investigator for the Soviet Union Militsiya in Moscow, where he is in charge of homicide investigations....
.

Russia has changed from a Communist
Communism

Communism is a socioeconomic structure and political ideology that promotes the establishment of an egalitarianism, classlessness, stateless society based on common ownership and control of the means of production and property in general....
 to capitalist
Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system in which wealth, and the means of producing wealth, are private property and controlled rather than commonly, publicly, or state-owned and controlled....
 state, and the Ukraine has seceded from the former Soviet Union. Renko is investigating the apparent suicide
Suicide

Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life. Many dictionaries also note the metaphorical sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest"....
 of one of the most powerful businessmen in Russia. An anomaly is a large mound of salt in the victim's wardrobe. Despite powerful people attempting to halt Renko's investigation, he continues, and as a result is sent away to Ukraine to look into a related murder.

Much of the story is set in the "dead zone
Zone of alienation

The Zone of Alienation, which is variously referred to as The Chernobyl Zone, The 30 Kilometer Zone, The Zone of Exclusion, The Fourth Zone, or simply The Zone is the 30 km/19 mi exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl disaster....
", the evacuated and contaminated area around the site of the Chernobyl disaster
Chernobyl disaster

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear reactor accident in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. It is considered to be the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history and the only level 7 instance on the International Nuclear Event Scale....
 in Ukraine. Although his superior officer claims that Renko, being of Ukrainian origin, was the natural choice for being dispatched to solve the case since he knows the language and the country, the real reason is (as in the previous novels) Renko's refusal to drop his investigation until he has found the reason for the businessman's apparent suicide and a subsequent murder.