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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
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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.

Jan 06, 2022
Janet Whalen
marked it as to-read