Jonathan Hemlock lives in a renovated Gothic church on Long Island. He is an art professor, a mountain climber and a mercenary, performing assassinations for money to augment his black-market art collection. But now he is being tricked into a hazardous assignment that necessitates climbing one of the most treacherous mountains in the Alps – the Eiger.

Part thriller and part satire, The Eiger Sanction is a breathtakingly suspenseful read written with Trevanian’s customary pzazz and boasting a magnificent cast of characters.