Kolymsky Heights - Lionel Davidson torrent

Category: Adventure, Thriller
Language: English
Keywords: Mystery Suspense Thriller

Written by Lionel Davidson
Read by Peter Noble
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

Kolymsky Heights: a frozen Siberian hell lost in endless night and 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)
“I’ve never read a thriller that so successfully transported me to a hitherto unimagined place.” ( Guardian)

NOTE:

This is not chapterized. Reviews refer to the introduction by Philip Pullman as being a plot spoiler and recommend listening from the 8th minute onward:

“Absolutely brilliant but…
This has to be one of the very best audiobooks of the many hundreds I have listened to over the last 10-12 years. Wonderful! Please do listen but please also do yourself a huge favour and follow these two steps. (1) Do not listen to the Introduction by Phillip Pullman - it is worth coming back to afterwards but unless you want to know what is going to happen in the story give it a miss and start at the 8:00 minute mark with the Prologue. (2) Do not be put-off by the Narrator when you first hear him read the Prologue - he deliberately mimics an old man’s croaky ramblings and I thought “God, if the whole book goes on like this I’m going to be binning it!” It didn’t. Peter Noble was absolutely fantastic and his range of voices (male, female, Russian, Japanese, Inuit, Asian, American, pukka-Brit, etc., etc.) was what gives audiobooks that special appeal over the printed word….”