The Eiger Sanction

About this book

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 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 that is part thriller and part satire the author traces Hemlocks spine-tingling adventures introducing a cast of intriguing charactersvillains traitors beautiful womeninto the highly charged atmosphere of danger. The accumulating threads of suspicion accusation and evidence gradually knit themselves into a bizarre and death-defying climax in this exciting entertaining novel that will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the last absorbing page. From the Trade Paperback edition.