![]() ![]() Evocative, versatile, painstaking at research (even if, as Philip Pullman hints in his new preface, Davidson may have added his own imaginative elaboration to facts) and brilliant at both driving the plot and lending depth to his characters. And while contemporary thriller fiction can still strive to be as far-reaching in scope as Davidson’s – no easy task though – the game its protagonists play has changed radically.įine writing too may have found newer expressions, but its imprint is unmistakable, and Lionel Davidson remains a wonderful narrator. ![]() ‘Kolymsky Heights’ by Lionel Davidson was first published in 1994 and, having re-read this epic, atmospheric thriller in Faber & Faber’s fine 2015 edition I was left to reflect on what has changed in world politics and thriller fiction since the novel’s first publication, and on what has remained the same.įar-away, mysterious, brooding Russia is still as threatening – in different though perhaps not unrelated ways – a country as it was then. ![]()
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