Trevanian
1) Shibumi
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English
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A classic spy novel from the bestselling author, Trevanian, about a westerner raised in Japan who becomes one of the world's most accomplished assassins.
Nicholai Hel is the world’s most wanted man. Born in Shanghai during the chaos of World War I, he is the son of an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious German father and is the protégé of a Japanese Go master. Hel survived the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge...
Nicholai Hel is the world’s most wanted man. Born in Shanghai during the chaos of World War I, he is the son of an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious German father and is the protégé of a Japanese Go master. Hel survived the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge...
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Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
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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...
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Series
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
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Jonathan Hemlock, the art professor and mercenary who first excited readers with his daring exploits in The Eiger Sanction, returns for another masterful adventure. Jonathan has gone to England for a vacation, but it is interrupted when British Intelligence needs him for his highly skilled services. Jonathan must take over the mission of an agent whose murder was so bizarre and terrifying that no other agent was willing to replace him. His task is...
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Play Misty for me: Clint Eastwood stars as a radio disc jokey who 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 whose unorthodox methods of capturing an escaped murderer anger a tough NYC police lieutenant; The beguiled: A wounded soldier...
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