The Eiger Sanction

Trevanian

ISBN 10: 1433259397 ISBN 13: 9781433259395

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2009

Synopsis

In a renovated Gothic church on Long Island lives Jonathan Hemlock, an art professor and world-renowned mountain climber who finances his black-market art collection by working as a freelance assassin.

Now, Hemlock is being tricked into a hazardous assignment that involves an attempt to scale one of the most treacherous mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps: the Eiger. His target is one of his three fellow climbers. The problem is that the people who hired him at CII can't tell him which one.

In a breathtakingly suspenseful story that is part thriller and part satire, Trevanian traces Hemlock's spine-tingling adventures, introducing a cast of intriguing characters-villains, traitors, beautiful women-into the highly charged atmosphere of danger. The accumulating threads of suspicion, accusation, and evidence gradually knit themselves into a bizarre and death-defying climax.

About this title

About the Author:

Trevanian (Rodney Whitaker, 1931-2005) was the bestselling author of Shibumi, The Eiger Sanction, The Loo Sanction, The Main, The Summer of Katya, and Incident at Twenty-Mile. He was also an educator in communication and dramatic arts and wrote nonfiction books under his own name. His books have been translated into more than fourteen languages.

From AudioFile:

An Eiger expedition is always dangerous, but it's even more so when Dr. Jonathan Hemlock, an art professor and master climber, is moonlighting as a spy agency's assassin. Further, he doesn't even know whom he's supposed to "sanction." Joe Barrett's gruff voice creates tension and a noir atmosphere. He also nails the sly sense of humor that permeates the novel, from the opening incident, which claims a spy's life in Montreal, to the irony that follows Hemlock through his adventure in the Alps. Trevanian's cynical take on the secret agent myth is worth checking out, even decades later, and Barrett's interpretation makes the amoral Hemlock a character to remember. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1433259397
• ISBN 13: 9781433259395
• Binding: Audio CD