Not much of a plot. But the bits in which the author describes Pripyat and the area around the wrecked Chernobyl nuclear plant are so compelling, you feel as if you are actually there. The tensions between the main character - the Russian Arkady Renko - and the Ukrainians he meets have overtones for what is sadly happening between the two countries currently. Chernobyl, for instance, should really be pronounced `Chor-nobyl'. The portrait Martin Cruz Smith paints of a supposedly `restricted' area where radioactive vehicles are dug-up and sold for their scrap value and irradiated animals are killed and sold into the food chain are reflections of a reality which has been ignored for literally decades now by official histories of the atomic wasteland. He clearly did his research very carefully before putting pen to paper - but this is what this excellent author tends to do...Read full review
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Another excellent Arkady Renko novel. Cruz Smith never fails to deliver and this book is no exception. An interesting murder mystery woven into a haunting picture of life in 'The Zone' around Chernobyl after the reactor disaster. Recommended.
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