The Eiger Sanction
| The Eiger Sanction | |
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 First edition cover |
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| Author(s) | Trevanian |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Thriller |
| Publisher | Outlet (now Crown) |
| Publication date | October 1972 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 316 ppp First Edition |
| ISBN | 0517500345 |
| OCLC Number | 508403 |
| Dewey Decimal | 811/.5/4 |
| LC Classification | PZ4.T8135 Ei PS3570.R44 |
| Followed by | The Loo Sanction |
- For the 1975 movie starring Clint Eastwood, see The Eiger Sanction (film).
The Eiger Sanction is a 1972 thriller novel by Rodney William Whitaker, written under the pseudonym Trevanian. The story was made into a film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood in 1975.
Whitaker wrote a sequel entitled The Loo Sanction.
[edit] Plot summary
Dr. Jonathan Hemlock is an art professor, lecturer and mountaineer. He is also a collector of paintings, most of them obtained from the black market. To finance his collection he works as an assassin for a secret U.S. government agency, the CII.
In order to acquire a Pissarro, Hemlock agrees to carry out a couple of "sanctions" (contract assassinations). The first one is easily dealt with in Montreal. For the second, he will need to join a group of climbers who are about to attempt the north face of the Eiger, a particularly difficult challenge. Hemlock goes back into training and eventually climbs the mountain with the team that he believes includes his would-be victim — whose identity he will have to deduce on the mountain itself. Poor climbing conditions disrupt the climb, and lead Hemlock to the discovery that his target is someone other than he had expected.
[edit] See also
- Assassinations in fiction
- Gore Vidal, "The Top Ten Best Sellers According to the New York Times as of January 7, 1973." The New York Review of Books, May 17 and May 31, 1973.
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