Publisher's Synopsis
Chernobyl: the Zone of Exclusion. A ghostly place, deserted and forgotten for almost two decades, now inhabited by militia, shady scavengers, a few reckless scientists and some elderly Ukrainian peasants. This is the eerie and dangerous world Inspector Arkady Renko must navigate if he is to find out the truth behind the death of one of Russia's richest oligarchs...Pasha Ivanov has been found dead on the pavement outside his luxury high- rise apartment in Moscow. It seems like a straightforward suicide, but Renko, never one to take evidence at face value, is puzzled by the mountain of salt found in Ivanov's wardrobe. Refusing to drop the case, he acquaints himself with this wealthy businessman's powerful and corrupt circle. His investigations lead him to Chernobyl's notorious Zone of Exclusion, where the body of Lev Timofeyev, Ivanov's former research partner, had been discovered in a contaminated cemetery...
