Trevanian
1) Shibumi
Author
Language
English
Description
When a beautiful young stranger shows up at his mountain fortress, Nicholai Hel, an assassin by training, is drawn into battle with a ruthless espionage company known only as the Organización Madre.
Author
Publisher
Avenel
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
THE EIGER SANCTION: Jonathan Hemlock lives in a renovated Gothic church on Long Island. He is an art professor, a mountain climber, and a mercenary, performing assassinations (id est, 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...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A collection of short stories presents a parade of characters in compelling situations--a young madman charms his trusting victims, two Basque women battle over an apple tree, and an embittered soldier rescues the dignity of a faded whore
7) Satori
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In a prequel to Trevanian's "Shibumi," amid the chaos of the Korean War, the CIA offers Nicholai Hel his freedom only if he kills the Soviet Union's Commissioner to China in Beijing, a mission that draws on all his strengths.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
The Eiger sanction: A professional assassin is forced out of retirement in order to avenge a friend's murder in the Swiss Alps.
Coogan's bluff: An Arizona lawman's unorthodox methods of capturing an escaped murderer angers a tough NYC police lieutenant.
The beguiled: A wounded soldier finds shelter in an all-girls...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Coogan's bluff: "Clint Eastwood stars as Walt Coogan, a soft-spoken, straightforward, Arizona lawman who is sent to New York City to extradite captured murderer James Ringerman (Don Stroud). Coogan slips up, Ringerman escapes again, and the hunt is on!"--Publisher's website
The beguiled: "During the Civil War, a wounded Union soldier is sheltered by the headmistress and students of a girls' academy in the South. As his health returns his desire increases,...