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Kolymsky Heights /

Davidson, Lionel,

Kolymsky Heights / Lionel Davidson ; with an introduction by Philip Pullman. - London : Faber & Faber, 2015. - x, 478 pages ; 20 cm.

Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1994.

Paperback -The best thriller I've ever read. (Philip Pullman). Kolymsky Heights. A Siberian permafrost hell lost in endless nights, the perfect setting for an underground Russian research station. It's a place so secret it doesn't officially exist; once there, the scientists are forbidden to leave. But one scientist is desperate to get a message to the outside world. So desperate, he sends a plea across the wildness to the West in order to summon the one man alive capable of achieving the impossible... Excellent...Kolymsky Heights is up there with The Silence of the Lambs, Casino Royale and Smiley's People. (Toby Young, Spectator). A breathless story of fear and courage. (Daily Telegraph).

The hero is Johnny Porter, an Oxford-educated Canadian Indian who is an accomplished linguist and master of disguise. The CIA sends him to Russia to obtain information on a genetics program. He enrolls as a Korean deckhand on a ship in Japan, crosses Siberia as a truck driver--in which capacity he meets beautiful Dr. Tanya Komarov--picks up the information and in a hail of bullets dashes home across the Bering Straits.



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Adventure stories.
Suspense fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Research institutes--Russia (Federation)--Siberia--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Research institutes.
Secrecy.


Siberia (Russia)--Fiction.
Russia (Federation)--Siberia.


Suspense fiction.
Adventure fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Suspense fiction
Adventure fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction).
Fiction.
Suspense fiction.

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