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A first UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 9 number sequence indicating a first printing. Bumped at head of book spine. Age tanning to pages. The dust jacket is complete, still shows the price but is showing some signs of wear to the extremities: some minor creasing to top edge, especially at head of spine to correspond with the bump.
The Fifth book in the Arkady Renko series.
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 Ukranian peasants who would rather ignore the Geiger counters than relocate. This is the eerie and dangerous world Inspector Arkady 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, refuses to drop the case, and there is something troubling him: a mountain of salt in Ivanov’s wardrobe.
Determined to look deeper into the circumstances of Ivanov’s demise, Renko acquaints himself with this wealthy businessman’s powerful and corrupt circle, until his investigations lead him to Chernobyl’s notorious Zone of Exclusion where the body of Lev Timofeyev, Ivanov’s former research partner has been discovered in a contaminated cemetery.”
Packed weight 680gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH