by Lionel Davidson · Belfond · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782714473189
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«Johnny Porter et le secret du mammouth congelé» is the suspense novel by Lionel Davidson, published by Belfond in paperback (677 pages, in French).
Johnny Porter, a Canadian indigenous man, is recruited by the CIA to infiltrate a secret laboratory in Siberia, where a Soviet scientist experiments with the frozen body of a woman from forty thousand years ago. The mission becomes a chase through the frozen taiga, framed by the Cold War and Stalinist delirium.
Novel originally published in English as «Kolymsky Heights» in 1994. The present French edition, from 2017, is translated by Valérie Bourgeois and includes a foreword by Philip Pullman.
For readers of espionage and adventure thrillers, especially those who value Cold War plots and remote settings like the Siberian taiga.
Lionel Davidson FRSL was an English novelist who wrote spy thrillers. He received Authors' Club Best First Novel Award once and the Gold Dagger Award three times.
