The Eiger Sanction.
TREVANIAN,.
The Eiger Sanction.
First Edition of The Eiger Sanction
New York: Crown Publishers, 1972.
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First edition of the author’s classic work, basis for the 1975 film starring Clint Eastwood and George Kennedy. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Jonathan Hemlock lives in a renovated Gothic church on Long Island. He is an art professor, a mountain climber, and a mercenary, performing assassinations (i.e., sanctions) for money to augment his black-market art collection. 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. In a breathtakingly suspenseful story that is part thriller and part satire, the author 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 in this exciting, entertaining novel that will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the last absorbing page. “Superior suspense on almost every page…the hero is a masterpiece of conflicting qualities—something for everyone" (Anatole Broyard, New York Times).
