Assassinio sull'Eiger

by Trevanian

Jonathan Hemlock vive in una chiesa gotica sconsacrata a Long Island, insegna storia dell’arte, è un alpinista esperto e un mercenario che uccide persone a pagamento per arricchire la propria collezione di opere provenienti dal mercato nero. Proprio per alimentare questa passione Hemlock accetta un ingaggio molto rischioso da parte di un’agenzia dei servizi unirsi a una squadra di alpinisti che deve scalare l’Eiger, una delle vette più insidiose delle Alpi; uno di loro è un sicario che ha ucciso un agente segreto americano e Hemlock deve eliminarlo.
Questo thriller ha ispirato l’omonimo film del 1975 di e con Clint Eastwood nel ruolo del protagonista.

372 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 6, 2022

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.

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