The Siberian Dilemma, Martin Cruz Smith, author; Jeremy Bobb, narrator
Arkady Renko is a special investigator in Moscow. When his girlfriend, investigative journalist Tatiana Petrovna fails to return home as promised, he travels to Siberia to search for her. He believes she is there working on a story about oligarchs and may be in trouble. Although he does find her there, his problems are just beginning. He is mauled by a bear and gravely injured, she is in a helicopter crash and barely escapes with her life, well known oligarchs are murdered to protect Vladimir Putin, and a corrupt a prosecutor threatens Zhenya, a 15 year old boy that Arkady cares for. The book is an easy read but it contains a lot of unnecessary dialogue about bees and bears. I thought the plot was thin with a lot of unnecessary extraneous tangents as Renko faces his own Siberian Dilemmas.