TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trevanian
TI  - The Eiger sanction: a novel 
SN  - 1400098025
AV  - PS3570.R44 E5 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Three Rivers Press
KW  - Assassins
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Art teachers
KW  - Mountaineers
KW  - Americans
KW  - Switzerland
KW  - Eiger (Switzerland)
KW  - Long Island (N.Y.)
N2  - 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.-- Back cover
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