Kolymsky Heights

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name = Kolymsky Heights
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image_caption = Cover of 1st US edition
author = Lionel Davidson
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country = Great Britain
language = English
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genre = Thriller novel
publisher = William Heinemann
release_date = 1994
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media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pages = 315 pp
isbn = ISBN 0312956614
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"Kolymsky Heights" is a thriller by Lionel Davidson.

Plot summary

A coded message is smuggled out of Russia, a plea for help from a supersecret laboratory deep in the frozen wastes of Siberia. The note is addressed to Johnny Porter, a Canadian Indian with a genius for languages and disguises, and reluctantly he is forced to slip across the border on a rescue mission, the consequences of which he little imagines. The detailed picture of life in the Kolyma region and of the native peoples of Siberia and British Columbia is impressive.

Critical opinion

Philip Pullman has said of the novel: "The best thriller I've ever read, and I've read plenty. A solidly researched and bone-chilling adventure in a savage setting, with a superb hero." [ [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4627683.ece Philip Pullman's essential reading list "The Times", August 30, 2008] ]

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