Deze auteur wordt geprezen om zijn meesterlijke vertelkunst in diverse genres, waarmee hij wijdverbreide erkenning en bestsellerstatus verwierf. Zijn werken staan bekend om hun ingewikkelde personages en boeiende plotlijnen die miljoenen lezers hebben betoverd. Hoewel hij verschillende literaire stijlen verkende, behield hij een onderscheidende stem die resoneert met een diep begrip van de menselijke conditie. Zijn unieke vermogen om spanning te combineren met diepere thematische zorgen vestigt hem als een onvergetelijke verteller.
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.
In the summer of 1914, Jean-Marc Montjean comes to the French village of Salies to assist the village physician. His first assignment is to treat the brother of Katya Treville. As he and her family become friendly, he realises they are haunted by an old, dark secret - but he can't help falling deeply in love with Katya.
A godforsaken town. A young, eager-to-please stranger carrying a homemade shotgun and a staggering secret. And a madman escaped from the Territorial Prison at Laramie, cutting a swath of sadistic violence with two killers at his side. Now, for the people of Twenty-Mile-- the God-fearing and the godless, heroes, whores, lovers and a boy teetering on the edge of madness-- a siege is about to begin amidst a harrowing mountain storm. And when the killing, the thunder, and the terror are over, some will live, some will be buried, and the myth of the American frontier will never be the same...
Art collector and freelance assassin Jonathan Hemlock is plunged into terror and violence when he attempts to secure provocative films that incriminate high-ranking British officials and that are being used as part of a chilling conspiracy of blackmail and political assassination with ties to the most exclusive levels of the London art world. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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.
