gsisk reviewed on 5/15/2010 + 189 more book reviews

Great writing, great characters!

Investigator Arkady Renko is told by his superiors to not investigate an obvious suicide: Pasha Ivanov, one of Russia's new billionaires, has jumped out of his 10th floor apartment. Obviously, he must have been mentally disturbed, because his closet floor was covered in salt, he jumped with a salt shaker in his hand, and his stomach was full of salt and bread.

Because Renko asks a few questions too many, he is dispatched to Chernobyl, where, in the exclusion zone, one of Ivanov's friends, fellow rich guy Timofeyev was found with his throat slit. Then another body, a local, turns up shot by a professional.

I really liked this book - it keeps you guessing until the end - and the description of the exclusion zone is extremely interesting.

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