It's been almost forty years since Moscow Inspector Arkady Renko appeared on the scene and seven years since the last installment. He sets off for Siberia in this novel to find his live-in girlfriend, a reporter who went east in search of a story. The two most harrowing moments involve a bear attack that almost kills him and a race over the Lake Baikal ice in an SUV. As incredulous as some of the story is, the essence of Arkady is his wit, which he still has, and the hopelessness of Russia, which is very much ever present.
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