The Eiger Sanction

The Eiger Sanction

Infobox Book |
name = The Eiger Sanction
title_orig =
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image_caption =
author = Trevanian
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = United States
language = English
music = John Williams
series =
subject =
genre = Thriller
publisher = Outlet (now "Crown")
pub_date = October 1972
english_pub_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 316 ppp "First Edition"
isbn = ISBN 0517500345
oclc =
preceded_by =
followed_by = The Loo Sanction
:"For the 1975 movie starring Clint Eastwood, see The Eiger Sanction (film)""The Eiger Sanction" is a 1972 thriller novel by Rodney William Whitaker, written under the pseudonym Trevanian. The story was made into a film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood in 1975.

Whitaker wrote a sequel entitled "The Loo Sanction".

Plot summary

Dr. Jonathan Hemlock, art professor, mountaineer, and occasional assassin, is called upon by a secret agency of the U.S. government to perform two more "sanctions" (contract assassinations). He will need to climb the Eiger to complete his task. He goes back into training and eventually climbs the mountain with a team that he believes includes his victim--whose identity he will have to deduce on the mountain. Poor climbing conditions disrupt the climb, and lead Hemlock to the discovery that his target is someone other than he had expected.

ee also

*Assassinations in fiction

External links

[http://imdb.com/title/tt0072926/ The Eiger Sanction on IMDB]


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