In a renovated Gothic church on Long Island lives Jonathan Hemlock, an art professor and a world-renowned mountain climber who finances his black-market art collection by working as a freelance assassin.
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. His target is one of his three fellow climbers. The problem is that the CII can’t tell him which one.
This spine-tingling adventure, part thriller and part satire, introduces an intriguing cast of villains, traitors, and beautiful women into a highly charged atmosphere of danger and suspicion that builds to a death-defying climax.
'Superior suspense on almost every page…the hero is a masterpiece of conflicting qualities—something for everyone.'
TREVANIAN (Rodney Whitaker, 1931-2005) was the best-selling author of The Eiger Sanction, The Loo Sanction, The Main, Summer of Katya, and Incident at Twenty Mile. He was also an educator in communication and dramatic arts, and wrote nonfiction books under his own name. His books have been translated into more than fourteen languages.
