Kolymsky Heights
By: Lionel Davidson
Series: Faber finds
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780571242924
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Fiction
Description: The hero is Johnny Porter, an Oxford-educated Canadian Indian who is an accomplished linguist and master of disguise. The CIA sends him to Russia to obtain information on a genetics program. He enrolls as a Korean deckhand on a ship in Japan, crosses Siberia as a truck driver--in which capacity he meets beautiful Dr. Tanya Komarov--picks up the information and in a hail of bullets dashes home across the Bering Straits.