Comença com un thriller d'espionatge amb tocs de ciència-ficció: des d'un satèl·lit americà (o anglès, ja no ho recordo; deixem-ho en occidental) s'observa que hi ha una base científica russa a prop del pol nord, en una regió apartadíssima i desolada, on s'hi poden veure.

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So if this book had been "oh I'm kinda sci-fi-y" from the start, then I'd have been a bit more accepting of the talking apes.Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal.

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A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. With the help of a surprising ally, whose identity is best withheld here, and a group of indigenous Evenk herdsmen, Porter gains access to the forbidden unit at Tcherny Vodi. The dust jacket of this book is slightly damaged/ripped, however, this does not affect the internal condition. If you watch a Bond film thinking: well yes, all this excitement and adventure is all very well, but how does Bond book his plane tickets, and how many stops does he have along the way? And the main crux of the book is following this implausibly adept guy get in to find out what it is.This site has an archive of more than one thousand seven hundred interviews, or eight thousand book recommendations. 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. But it's not a procedural in the usual sense; the narrative is set on a few continents, and the last third of the novel is pretty much an extended chase sequence. How to steal a bobik – a tough little jeep built for sub-zero conditions – as a possible means of escape?