Kolymsky Heights - Softcover

Davidson, Lionel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571324215 ISBN 13: 9780571324217

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2015

Synopsis

'The best thriller I've ever read.' Philip Pullman

With an introduction by Philip Pullman

Kolymsky Heights. A frozen Siberian hell lost in endless night. The perfect location 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 wilderness to the West in order to summon the one man alive who can achieve the impossible...

'Sensationally good. Cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed. One of the great thrillers of the last century.' Charles Cumming

'Hugely thrilling, brilliantly written, perfect for the beach. Like all the best holidays, I didn't want this book to end.' Anthony Horowitz, Telegraph

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Review:

A breathless story of fear and courage. (Daily Telegraph)

Excellent ... Kolymsky Heights is up there with The Silence of the Lambs, Casino Royale and Smiley's People. (Toby Young Spectator)

Easily the best of the year. (Robert Harris, Books of the Year Sunday Times)

I've never read a thriller that so successfully transported me to a hitherto unimagined place. (Maxton Walker Guardian)

The master of the modern adventure story. (Daily Express)

One of the most powerful thrillers I have ever read. (Michael James The Times)

An outrageously good book ... Possibly better than any other thriller written over the last 25 years. (Daily Mail)

A tremendous thriller. (Observer)

An icy marvel of invention ... It is written with the panache of a master and with the wide-eyed exhilaration of an adventurer in the grip of discovery. Mr. Davidson has not only rescued one of the most familiar narrative forms of the era, the spy thriller; he has also renewed it. (James Carroll The New York Times Book Review)

In the dying days of the British Empire, it seemed as thought the adventure novel would die with it. But Buchan and H Rider Haggard were succeeded by a storyteller of genius, Lionel Davidson. His tales of espionage suited the Sixties, his voice that of an angry young man. Kolymsky Heights, his masterpiece, is back in print. (Jake Kerridge Daily Telegraph)

Book Description:

The book that came in from the cold; this much celebrated spy thriller on the Faber backlist is repackaged and reissued.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0571324215
• ISBN 13: 9780571324217
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496