Dont miss the latest book in the Arkady Renko series, THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA by Martin Cruz Smith, ‘;the master of the international thriller’ (New York Times) available to order now!AN ARKADY RENKO NOVEL: #5 One of those writers that anyone who is serious about their craft views with respect bordering on awe Val Mc Dermid Makes tension rise through the page like a sharks fin’Independent *** The iron curtain has fallen and a screen of nouveau capitalism stands in its place. Though the New Russia is foreign to Renko, the corruption and brutality that he encounters are all too familiar. The seeming suicide of one of Russias new billionaires leads Arkady Renko to Chernobyl and the Zone of Exclusion, the still radioactive site of great catastrophe – a spectral netherworld populated by the corrupted, the obstinate and the reckless . . .Praise for Martin Cruz Smith The storydrips with atmosphere and authenticity a literary triumph David Young, bestselling author of Stasi Child ‘;Smith not only constructsgrittily realisticplots, he also has a gift for characterisation of which most thriller writers can only dream Mail on Sunday Smith was among the first ofa new generation of writers who made thrillers literary Guardian Brilliantly worked, marvellously written. . . an imaginative triumph Sunday Times ‘;Martin Cruz Smith’s Renko novels are superb’ William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier