- Taschenbuch: 400 Seiten
- Verlag: Pan Books; Auflage: New edition (2. September 2005)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0330442333
- ISBN-13: 978-0330442336
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,2 x 11 x 2,8 cm
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- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 142.853 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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The latest of Smith's thrillers about honest Russian cop Arkady Renko, Wolves Eat Dogs has a memorably spooky opening as Renko prowls the apartment of one of the men who has done well out of privatization and neo-capitalism and has suddenly jumped out of a tenth floor window. The dead man's cupboard is full of salt and he was clutching a salt-shaker when he died--no-one wants to investigate madness, but Renko suspects that there is more to it than that. When the dead man's partner turns up with his throat cut in a cemetery in the Ukraine, his bosses get him out of their hair by sending him to investigate--in the overgrown deserted towns and returning woodlands around the radioactive ruins of the Chernobyl power plant. A place full of deadly legacies and ruined hopes is just the sort of place where Renko feels at home, and where secrets are as common as giant mutant catfish. The mystery is less impressive here than the atmosphere--Smith gives the attentive reader more clues than merely playing fair demands--but with atmosphere so intense that hardly matters. --Roz Kaveney
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"Why would anyone jump out a window with a saltshaker?" A good question, especially when the suicide victim is Pasha Ivanov, a Moscow physicist-turned-billionaire businessman--a "New Russian" poster boy, if ever there was one--with several homes, a leggy 20-year-old girlfriend ("the kind [of blonde] who could summon the attention of a breeze"), and every reason to be contented in his middle age. So, wonders Senior Investigator Arkady Renko, in Martin Cruz Smith's Wolves Eat Dogs, what provoked Ivanov to take a header from his stylish 10th-floor apartment? And how does it relate to the shaker clutched in his dead hand or the hillock of table salt found on his closet floor?
Renko, introduced in Smith's 1981 bestseller, Gorky Park, is a cop well out of sync with rapidly changing Russian society, "a difficult investigator, a holdover from the Soviet era, a man on the skids" whose determination to do more than go through the motions of criminal inquiries inevitably exasperates his superiors. Thus, when this saturnine detective declines to accept the verdict that Ivanov did himself in--who peppered that salt around the capitalist's premises, Renko still wants to know, and what about rumors of a security breach at Ivanov's apartment building?--he is exiled to the Ukrainian Zone of Exclusion, the "radioactive wasteland" surrounding Chernobyl, site of a notorious 1986 nuclear disaster and the place where, only a week after Ivanov's demise, his company's senior vice-president is found with his throat slit. There, among cynical scientists, entrepreneurial scavengers, and predators both two- and four-legged--an exclusive coterie of the rejected--Renko chews over the crimes on his plate. Unfortunately, the dosimeter that warns him of radiation exposure at Chernobyl does not also protect him from a pair of malevolent brothers, or a "damaged" woman doctor offering him mutually assured disappointment.
Smith has a keen eye for the comical quirks of modern-day Russia--its chaotic roadways, voracious appetite for post-communist luxuries, and evolving ethics ("Russians used to kill for women or power, real reasons. Now they kill for money"). And this story's bleakly beautiful Ukrainian backdrop nicely complements the desperate hope of Renko's task. Still, the greatest strength of Wolves Eat Dogs (Smith's fifth series installment, after Havana Bay) is its characters, especially Arkady Renko, who despite his lugubrious nature continues to show a heart as expansive and unfathomable as the Siberia steppe. --J. Kingston Pierce -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Der Krimi-Plot mag in der Tat nicht der Aufsehen erregendste des letzten Jahrzehnts sein, aber die beeindruckend eingefangenen Impressionen der Wälder und verlassenen Dörfer um Chernobyl machen die Lektüre des Romans zu einem schaurigen Vergnügen. Sturköpfige Zurückgebliebene, Wilderer und Forscher bevölkern die radioativ verseuchten Ruinen, Wälder und Sümpfe um den Reaktor. Cruz Smith ist es gelungen, diese Elemente zu einem Stimmungsbild des Entsetzens und der Resignation zusammenzusetzen, das seinesgleichen sucht.
Die Charaktere sind glaubwürdig, die Dialoge lakonisch und treffend - da verzeiht man gern, dass die eigentliche Morduntersuchung nicht gerade viele Wendungen bereithält. Sie dient lediglich als Aufhänger für das Schicksal der gescheiterten Existenzen, von fanatischen Forschern und sterbenden Autofriedhof-Ausschlachtern bis hin zu Arkady Renko.
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Moscow in 2003. The most voracious crime bosses and businessmen have killed each other, the truce between the different mafia groups appears to hold, when business tycoon Pavel ("Pasha") Ivanov falls to his death from his impregnable 10th-floor luxury apartment in Moscow, only 15 minutes after having been dropped off by his security detail. Suicide? Homicide? The initial response of the Russian judiciary is suicide, therefore no need to investigate, do an autopsy or cause panic among foreign investors.
This book marks the fifth appearance of (Senior) Investigator Arkady Renko in a novel by MCS. In his famous first appearance in "Gorky Park", he proved a stubborn detective during Soviet times. Now he has to watch his steps even more: in New Russia some 50.000 former KGB personnel have become entrepreneurs who maintain excellent contacts with key members of government. A fugitive American wheeler dealer, who served as Pasha's assistant, secures a respite for Renko in order to do more than a token investigation, but only for a few days... Renko has to move fast.
The action soon moves to the Zone of Exclusion around Chernobyl, venue of a nuclear reactor's melt down in 1986, where nobody is supposed to live, let alone engage in business.
A second investigation in the book concerns the traumatised boy Zhenya, who refuses to speak, except when reading aloud his favourite, scary fairy tale. Renko has been asked by the director of a home for abandoned children to try and find out Zhenya's identity, who his father is. Renko takes him to Gorky Park regularly, where the boy beats him repeatedly and resoundingly with chess, then performs his ritual visits to the different attractions, as if to say, this is where I once went with Dad, hoping perhaps to meet him again during one of the visits.
This is a very rich book with superlative characterisation, great atmosphere, dialogue and pace. Unlike many crime writers, MCS does his own research and thanks every collaborator. An addictive and highly recommended account of the perils of crime investigation in New Russia.
This book marks the fifth appearance of (Senior) Investigator Arkady Renko in a novel by MCS. In his famous first appearance in "Gorky Park", he proved a stubborn detective during Soviet times. Now he has to watch his steps even more: in New Russia some 50.000 former KGB personnel have become entrepreneurs who maintain excellent contacts with key members of government. A fugitive American wheeler dealer, who served as Pasha's assistant, secures a respite for Renko in order to do more than a token investigation, but only for a few days... Renko has to move fast.
The action soon moves to the Zone of Exclusion around Chernobyl, venue of a nuclear reactor's melt down in 1986, where nobody is supposed to live, let alone engage in business.
A second investigation in the book concerns the traumatised boy Zhenya, who refuses to speak, except when reading aloud his favourite, scary fairy tale. Renko has been asked by the director of a home for abandoned children to try and find out Zhenya's identity, who his father is. Renko takes him to Gorky Park regularly, where the boy beats him repeatedly and resoundingly with chess, then performs his ritual visits to the different attractions, as if to say, this is where I once went with Dad, hoping perhaps to meet him again during one of the visits.
This is a very rich book with superlative characterisation, great atmosphere, dialogue and pace. Unlike many crime writers, MCS does his own research and thanks every collaborator. An addictive and highly recommended account of the perils of crime investigation in New Russia.
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The best book of the 1980's was undoubtedly "Gorky Park". I have read that book countless times and Senior Investigator Arkady Renko rapidly became one of my favourite fictional detectives. I liked his dry wit, his sarcasm and his rebelliousness towards higher authority. He was the good guy in a sea of bad guys, the sort of guy every little boy wants to grow up to be.
Even when he was demoted and exiled in books such as "Polar Star" and "Red Square", I still liked him because of his ability to adapt to the new environments and still keep his dry wit, sarcasm and rebelliousness. He infuriated everyone and I cheered for him. His persistant determination always got the guilty person caught in the end. "Havana Bay" was when things started to dip in the plot department but I still stuck faithfully by my hero.
But now Arkady Renko really needs to retire. This latest book "Wolves Eat Dogs" is nothing short of dire and boring. Reading this book was a big waste of time and money on my part.
Part of the problem is that the USSR is no longer around so there is no KGB to liven things up. Instead, we have a story of a Russian businessman who decides to take a leap out of his window with a salt-shaker in his hand (YAWN!). Then Renko walks around a bit with a disabled kid (who never talks but plays chess like a grand master), bumps into corrupt Americans (another Mr Osbourne character!), then ends up finally at Chernobyl after another body connected to the "investigation" is found. Then there's radiation, despair, alcohol, weird crazy people, radioactive fish...
It might just be me but this book just seems to be a platform for Cruz Smith to say how bad Russia is these days. The story is stale, directionless, even Renko sounds bored. Renko's colleague is so bored that he refuses to take Renko's phone calls. The dead man's colleagues are so boring and irritating that you start to hope they'll be the next ones to die.
I think it's high time that Cruz Smith puts Renko into retirement. The USSR is history Mr Cruz Smith. Make Renko history too.
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