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Trevanian
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Rodney William Whitaker
Born: June 12, 1931in Granville, New York, United States
Died: December 14, 2005 (aged 74) in Somerset, England
Trevanian aka Nicholas Seare
He was an American film scholar and writer who wrote several novels under the pen name Trevanian. Whitaker wrote in a wide variety of genres, achieved bestseller status, and published under several other names, as well, including Nicholas Seare, Beñat Le Cagot, and Edoard Moran. He published the nonfiction book The Language of Film under his own name.
Between 1972 and 1983, five of his novels sold more than a million copies each. He was described as "the only writer of airport paperbacks to be compared to Zola, Ian Fleming, Poe, and Chaucer." Whitaker adamantly avoided publicity for most of his life. His real name was a closely held secret until 1998, when a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman published it.
The Eiger Sanction (1972) was made into a movie in 1975 starring Clint Eastwood.
Author Robert Pobi thanks him as the writer who made him want to write, too.
Full Series List in Order
Jonathan Hemlock
1 - The Eiger Sanction (Jan-1972)2 - The Loo Sanction (Jan-1973)
Book List in Order: 9 titles
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The Eiger Sanction
- Jan-1972
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Jonathan Hemlock lives in a renovated Gothic church on Long Island. He is an art professor, a mountain climber, and a mercenary, performing assassinations (i.e., sanctions) for money to augment his black-market art collection. Now Hemlock is being tr...
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The Loo Sanction
- Jan-1973
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A First-Rate Thriller from a Legendary MasterJonathan Hemlock, the art professor and mercenary who first excited readers with his daring exploits in The Eiger Sanction, returns in an even more masterful adventure in The Loo Sanction, Trevanian’s se...
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The Summer of Katya
- Dec-1988
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Part love story and part psychological thriller from best-selling author Trevanian, "a tour de force... A story that explores meticulously some of the darker corners of the human soul." -- The Washington PostIn the quiet Basque countryside in 1914, J...
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Incident at Twenty-Mile
- Oct-1998
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For fifteen years he has been silent. Now, the legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author of such classic suspense novels as The Eiger Sanction and Shibumi returns-- unleashing a stunning thriller set against the backdrop of the American West.
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Hot Night in the City
- Jan-2000
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Hot Night in the City is a masterwork from Trevanian, whose unique ability to create a new stylistic "voice" for each genre he visits has produced the international best sellers: The Main, The Summer of Katya, and Shibumi, and his hundreds of tho... -
Death Dance: Suspenseful Stories of the Dance Macabre
- Feb-2002
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An unusual mystery anthology of 14 stories in which dance is put to darker uses such as luring prey, a cold business proposition, etc. Authors inlcude Andrew kennedy, Brendan Dubois, John Lutz and more....
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The Crazyladies of Pearl Street
- Jun-2005
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Legendary writer Trevanian brings readers his most personal novel yet: a funny, deeply felt, often touching coming-of-age novel set in 1930s America. Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and his spirited but vulnerable young mother ...
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