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‘How long, dear friend – how long? I await you with eagerness! So much has happened (so much I must not forget) that I use this time to make an account. And to offer a warning.’
So begins Lionel Davidson’s magnificent Kolymsky Heights, an unputdownable new thriller from the writer described as ‘beyond comparison… breathtakingly brilliant’ for his three Golden Dagger Thrillers of the Year.
Deep in the permafrost of today’s Siberia lies a research station so secret that no scientist leaves it alive. On the desk of an Oxford professor is a coded message on cigarette paper. It is a summons – to the only man with the combination of arcane skill and physical courage to accomplish a mission impossible.
Canadian-Indian, brilliant linguist, natural rebel, Johnny Porter is the chosen one – but the place he must go is so secret, the mission so dangerous, the information he must bring out so momentous, that his chances are rated – even by the experts – at less than zero.
Not since The Day of the Jackal has there been a novel of such page-turning excitement,nor a finale of such terrifying brilliance. Kolymsky Heights is a classic of the genre.
Hardcover.448 pages. In very good to excellent preloved condition. Ex-library. Only two library markings.