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La Sanction

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Professeur d'art et alpiniste de renommée internationale, Jonathan Hemlock est surtout un tueur spécialisé dans les sanctions : l'assassinat d'agents ennemis pour le compte de l'organisation secrète CII. En représailles du meurtre d'un agent du CII, Jonathan doit infliger une nouvelle sanction. Sa cible fait partie d'une équipe qui va tenter l'ascension d'une des plus dangereuses montagnes des Alpes, l'Eiger par la face Nord. Hemlock se joint à cette expédition en vue d'exécuter sa mission. Seul problème : il ignore lequel de ses trois compagnons de cordée est l'homme à abattre. Livre brillant à l'humour corrosif, La Sanction est à la fois un authentique chef-d'œuvre de la littérature américaine et un roman au suspense haletant. Le premier roman de Trevanian, adapté au cinéma par Clint Eastwood en 1975. "Trevanian nous emmène dans une ascension des Alpes comme on en a rarement vue, à mi-chemin entre leçon d'alpinisme et roman d'espionnage." - Ysaline Parisis, Focus Vif

375 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 3, 2017

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Trevanian

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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.

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