![]() ![]() We are introduced to a fusty old don in Oxford, Professor Lazenby. ![]() Kolymsky Heights is relatively long at 478 pages and quite quickly you realise this is because Davidson’s defining quality is a long, drawn-out and frustrating, round-the-houses approach. Is it any good? What’s it about? Does it make me want to go in search of his other seven thrillers? Kolymsky Heights After a gap of 16 years he returned with Kolymsky Heights, his last novel, which gained rave reviews. he is very much one of the old generation of thriller writers.Īfter Wenceslas Davidson published a novel every couple of years throughout the 1960s and early 70s until 1978 when he disappeared from view. Davidson was born in 1922 and published his first novel, The Night of Wenceslas, in 1960, the year before John le Carré made his debut – i.e. I saw this book in several second-hand bookshops before I picked it up for a pound imagining, from the stylish cover, that Davidson was one of the new young generation of thriller writers. ‘Many tricky dicks walk the trail.’ (Jean-Baptiste Porteur, p.88) ![]()
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