by Martin Cruz Smith, 2004
This book, by the author of Gorky Park, really plods along and becomes quite a drag to read. Redeeming values are that I read it on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and it gave me an appreciation of what it must be like to live there twenty years later. Also, it does seem to capture the Russian psyche.
If you are looking for a thriller, look elsewhere. 
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