L'Expert

by Trevanian, Jean Rosenthal (translator)

Jonathan Hemlock, génial alpiniste et collectionneur d'art, trouve les moyens d'assouvir ses passions en exécutant des assassinats pour le compte d'une mystérieuse organisation secrète.
De passage en Angleterre, Hemlock se voit assigner une mission qui vient de coûter la vie à un agent des services secrets britanniques assassiné de manière atroce.

Lancé sur la piste de films compromettant de hauts dignitaires du Royaume, il devra exécuter une nouvelle et ultime sanction. Sa cible : l'élite des criminels londoniens pervertie par la débauche.

Après La Sanction, nous retrouvons dans ce second volet des aventures de Jonathan Hemlock le brio, l'intelligence et l'humour qui font de Trevanian un auteur incontournable.

349 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 30, 2017

About the author

Rodney William Whitaker 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 Émile Zola, Ian Fleming, Edgar Allan Poe, and Geoffrey Chaucer." Whitaker adamantly avoided publicity for most of his life, his real name a closely held secret for many years. The 1980 reference book Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers listed his real name in its Trevanian entry.