Trevanian Boeken

It is the summer of 1914. Golden days that look to roll on forever...who could hear the guns of August? Deep in the Basque countryside, a young doctor signs on at a clinic. His first case is simple, the consequences complex...for he meets a young woman, Katya, with whom he falls deeply in love. Trevanian is the author of THE EIGER SANCTION, SHIBUMI and THE MAIN, all best sellers that receive continuing acclaim. "Trevanian is in a class by himself...beyond any doubt superior." (John Barkham Reviews)

De Main is een wijk in Montreal, een eerste toevluchtsoord voor de grote stromen immigranten: Europeanen, Aziaten, joden, katholieken. Het is een doorgangshuis waar de ouderen en zwakken achterblijven, waar de misdaad welig tiert dankzij de armoede en de ellende. Claude LaPointe, inspecteur van politie, is hier de centrale figuur. De Main is zijn wijk, al dertig jaar. Iedere uithoek kent hij, iedere zwerver, elke pooier en hoer, elke gangster, ieder ogenblik van wanhoop. Hij handelt naar eigen goeddunken en is niet alleen politieman, maar ook rechter en soms scherprechter. Het is de enige manier om de misdaad binnen de perken te houden. Dan wordt in een goor achterafsteegje een jonge Italiaan doodgestoken. LaPointe stelt een onderzoek in. In het begin lijkt het een routineklus, maar plotseling krijgt de zaak een onverwachte wending. De ontknoping is zowel schokkend als triest, en raakt niet alleen de identiteit van de moordenaar, maar ook die van LaPointe zelf.

Een jonge dorpsarts tracht het angstvallig bewaarde familiegeheim van een jonge vrouw te ontraadselen.

Een hoogleraar in de kunstgeschiedenis, die wanneer hij geld nodig heeft, voor de Amerikaanse intelligence service werkt, wordt vanwege zijn kwaliteiten als bergbeklimmer naar de Eiger gestuurd om jacht op een man te maken.

THE MAIN: The Main is Montreal's teeming underworld, where the dark streets echo with cries in a dozen languages, with the quick footsteps of thieves and the whispers of prostitutes. It is a world where violence and brutality are a way of life. To the people of the Main, police lieutenant Claude LaPointe is judge and jury, father confessor and avenging angel. Montreal's police force has changed over time, but LaPointe has not. His commitment to justice is total, as is his devotion to the Main and its underworld community. But when a cold-blooded murderer invades LaPointe's territory, he is forced to examine his long-held beliefs and secrets and to confront his own loneliness and mortality. With a cast of unforgettable supporting characters and an unusual and remarkable hero, "The Main" is another gripping tale of death and danger, of action and mystery, by the incomparable Trevanian.

A gripping thriller that follows assassin Nicholai Hel across Asia as he fights to regain his freedom. Sugamo Prison, Japan, October 1951. Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement for the murder of his mentor. A formidable assassin as well as a master of hoda korosu or 'naked kill', he has developed a supreme awareness of the presence of danger. Suddenly offered the chance of freedom, he feels it now as never before... Overseen by Haverford, his American spymaster he must go to Beijing and kill the Soviet Union's commissioner to China. In a landscape primed for war this is a suicide mission he has no choice but to accept. Can Hel succeed in winning his freedom and if so, at what cost? And can he ever achieve his ultimate goal of satori - the possibility of true understanding and harmony with the world?

A westerner raised in Japan, he survived the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world's most artful lover and its most accomplished assassin. His greatest desire is to attain a state of effortless perfection . . . shibumi. But he is about to face his most sinister and corrupt enemy -- a supermonolith of espionage and monopoly bent on destroying him. . . . From the Paperback edition.

It is the summer of 1914. Golden days that look to roll on forever...who could hear the guns of August? Deep in the Basque countryside, a young doctor signs on at a clinic. His first case is simple, the consequences complex...for he meets a young woman, Katya, with whom he falls deeply in love.

Meet Jonathan Hemlock. He has a renovated Gothic church on Long Island for his home, he teaches art, climbs mountains, and performs assassinations (sanctions) to get money to augment his fabulous collection of art masterpieces purchased in the black market. Against his will he is tricked into a most hazardous sanction assignment that involves an attempt to conquer and scale on of the most treacherous mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps, the Eiger.

The scene is London, where Jonathan Hemlock is blackmailed into performing another "sanction" -- a top-secret political assassination -- in a nerve-wracking web involving dirty dealings among high-ranking British government officials and a British counterespionage group. Once again Hemlock's life hangs in the balance -- but this time the game is deadlier, the penalty for failure more grotesquely lethal than ever before!