In a renovated Gothic church on Long Island lives Jonathan Hemlock, an art professor and a 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 CII can’t tell him which one.
This spine-tingling adventure, part thriller and part satire, introduces an intriguing cast of villains, traitors, and beautiful women into a highly charged atmosphere of danger and suspicion that builds to a death-defying climax.
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. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
New York Times...
'Superior suspense on almost every page…the hero is a masterpiece of conflicting qualities—something for everyone.'
About the Author
TREVANIAN (Rodney Whitaker, 1931-2005) was the best-selling author of The Eiger Sanction, The Loo Sanction, The Main, 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.
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