WACT Book Club | February 2027

Kontiki  - Thor Heyerdahl (256 pages)

Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson is a Cold War adventure thriller that moves from Oxford to British Columbia and deep into the frozen isolation of Siberia. At the center is Johnny Porter, a brilliant and resourceful Gitskan protagonist drawn into a secret mission after a coded message from a Russian scientist reaches the West. Dense, demanding, and ambitious, the novel combines espionage, survival, disguise, science, and extreme geography into one of the more unusual thrillers of the late twentieth century.

A vast Arctic spy thriller of coded messages, frozen borders, and impossible survival.

Author’s Biography

Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian explorer, writer, and filmmaker best known for the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition. His work combined field adventure with bold theories about ancient migration, making him one of the most recognizable explorers of the twentieth century.

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