Kolymsky Heights
Author(s): Lionel Davidson
'The best thriller I've ever read.' Philip PullmanKolymsky Heights. A Siberian permafrost hell lost in endless night, 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... 'Sensationally good. Cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed. One of the great thrillers of the last century.' Charles Cumming
Product Information
The book that came in from the cold; this much celebrated spy thriller on the Faber backlist is repackaged and reissued
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 the Second World War. 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), The Chelsea Murders (1978) and Kolymsky Heights (1994). He was thrice the recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and, in 2001, was awarded the CWA's Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award. He died in 2009.
General Fields
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- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : 0.387
- : 01 March 2015
- : 198mm X 129mm X 29mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 April 2018
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lionel Davidson
- : Paperback
- : Main
- : English
- : 823.914
- : 496