Kolymsky Heights

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The different ethnicities throughout Siberia is astounding and unearthing the history of the “gulags” or labour camps under Lenin and Stalin’s regimes has been quite an eye opener. Davidson wrote a number of children's novels under the pseudonym David Line. Run For Your Life is an example. An outrageously good book ... Possibly better than any other thriller written over the last 25 years. ( Daily Mail) Once upon a time I went on a writing course. I say writing course- it was a morning in a library with an author who had agreed to come and do some creative writing things. I was there entiiiirely to make up the numbers. I remember very little of it, including who the author was, but I do recall her top tip was to make sure the tone was set early. If, she said (and I believe this is more or less verbatim), you want people to be able to walk through walls - then have something like that happen in the first chapter. Don't just have people suddenly walk through walls a third of the way through, or your readers brain may well just go "ya wot mate?" and leave before the interval.

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But get all that nonsense out of the way and you have a very much above average effort. Davidson could actually write. The obligatory formulaic aspects of the genre are transformed into more plausibility than you usually get within these masculine fantasies. The book is about a quest, much like Frodo and his journey to dispose of the ring. The problem I had with the hero Johnny Porter was he did not have the flaws Frodo had. He was basically good at everything from languages, building cars, fighting and just to perfect.That stopped being verbatim at some point, there. I by-and-large (although privitely) disagreed with her on this, and some of my very favourite books ignore this rule. BUT I think the reason I didn't like Kolymsky Heights boils down to that one author's maybe quite contentious top tip. I've hidden this because of spoilers so I'm quite happy to spoiler away: There's this secret, right? In this really secret artic base, yeh? And the main crux of the book is following this implausibly adept guy get in to find out what it is. (I have no beef with Porter, the implausibly adept guy. He's fine. If he were plausibly inept, then what'd be the point of the story?) Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Kleine Gebrauchsspuren vorhanden, es können auch Mängelexemplare sein---. nein.

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Set in China, and ripped from today's headlines, comes a pulse-pounding debut that reinvents the spy thriller for the 21st century.I tried several times to finish this book but for the first time in years, more than 1/2 through the book, I gave up. Publishers Weekly described it as "shameless, wonderful, riveting entertainment". [1] The New York Times described it as "an icy marvel of invention". [2] A review in The Guardian described it as "a masterpiece of suspense". [3]