WACT Book Club | January 2027

Kolymsky Heights – Lionel Davidson (478 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

Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian novelist best known internationally for The Alchemist. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, he has written fiction shaped by spirituality, symbolism, and the search for personal meaning. His experience walking the road to Santiago became the basis for The Pilgrimage.

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