![]() ![]() ![]() What Davidson does well is the patient build-up. While there’s much to admire about the story, I’m not convinced it’s as good as Pullman declares. In the edition I read, Philip Pullman had written a short essay in which he pronounced that the book is the best thriller he's ever read. Kolymsky Heights is a spy-adventure tale written by three-times CWA gold dagger winner, Lionel Davidson. ![]() After that it’s up to Porter to work out how to get into a base guarded by military intelligence, where research staff only ever enter and never leave, and try and recover the director’s information. Then the challenge is to quickly provide orientation and training and to slip him into a highly restricted zone in Siberia. The first task is to persuade Porter to make the trip. Porter specializes in the languages of native tribes of the arctic, has the field skills to survive in the harsh environment, and is somewhat of an adventurer. The director wants Dr Johnny Porter, a Gitxsan Indian who majored in biology and is now a Canadian professor of Anthropology, who he’d also met on trip to the West, to journey to Siberia and find a way into the lab. The professor gives it to an ex-student turned spy. Confined permanently to the lab he manages to sneak a message out to a professor in Oxford he’d met years previously before he’d taken up his present position. ![]() The director of a top-secret research lab in the far north of Siberia has information he’d like to share with the outside world. ![]()
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