Product Description

'A breathless story of fear and courage' - "Daily Telegraph". 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 ...Fast-moving, exhilarating and starring a highly unusual hero, "Kolymsky Heights" is an unforgettable thriller with a spectacular denouement.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #172386 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

About the Author
Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull, Yorkshire. He left school early and worked as a reporter before serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. His first novel, The Night of Wenceslas, was published in 1960 to great critical acclaim and drew comparisons to Graham Greene and John le Carre. It was followed by The Rose of Tibet (1962), A Long Way to Shiloh (1966) and The Chelsea Murders (1978). He has thrice been the recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and, in 2001, was awarded the CWA's Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award.

Customer Reviews

Adventure fiction at its best.
Having rediscovered contemporary thriller fiction in the past two years, I have read some of the "best" books around. I stumbled on this one, knew little of Lionel Davidson but I am now after all his books. Absolutely brilliant - the pace, the detail, the storyline, the intellectual challenge to the reader. Once the issue has been identified we have two wonderfully scripted scenarios, the getting in and the getting out. Each in its own way is a separate adventure with quality descriptive writing creating the most atmospheric of reads. For me this was the best book I have read in the past two years and I would not hestitate to recommend it to those who enjoy adventure fiction. It is stunning.

Unforgettable!
This is a tale of adventure, daring, political history and science, wrapped together in a compelling tale. Like the very best stories, it develops to a thrilling climax.
Davidson has never really repeated this masterpiece.
There is something fractionally off-beam about this work that makes it truly unforgettable. It would make a great film.
Not just another cold war novel, not just a thriller. Just the best.

A Superb Lionel Davidson adventure
Prepare yourself for a real page-turner as veteran writer Lionel Davidson comes up with a rival to his classic "Rose of Tibet". After a slowish start set in the dusty office of an Oxford Don, we move to the wide open spaces of Northern Canada and a meeting with one of the most charismatic and unusual characters of recent times. Johnny Porter is a super intelligent native North American who is perfect for an undercover mission to deepest Siberia to discover the truth behind an explosion at a Top Secret "weather station". Johnny Porters anti- establishment charater wonderfully dominates the story as the pace just does not let up.We travel to Japan and then to Siberia where the attention to detail is a testament to the ammount of research that Davidson has done.The discovery that Porter makes and his attempts to extricate himself from Russia are simply too exciting to describe.This is no boring spy book but a real adventure with action, intelligence and romance. Do not miss it!