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Neil
Apr 16, 2008 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: thriller
This is a book I keep coming back to as it is a masterful story of an amazing resourceful but believable main character isolated in a cold and frozen land but somehow I warmed to him. The main reason for him being there sometimes becomes secondary to how he is going to achieve it but the author drives the plot on relentlessly, whilst stretching credulity a little at the end, still left me satisfied and wondering whether there was some mileage left for Johnny Porter. There may be,I haven't read a ...more
Wendy
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Quite possibly the best thriller I have read in a long time. I am rather intrigued by the author and searching for more of his early works.
Gary
May 15, 2016 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Janet Whalen
Jan 06, 2022 marked it as to-read