Trevanian Libri

1951, Tokyo. Nicholai Hel si trova in prigione per aver ucciso il suo padre spirituale, un generale accusato di crimini di guerra. È disposto a tirarlo fuori di lì un agente dei servizi segreti, che ha bisogno di lui e della sua abilità per una missione segretissima. Hel naturalmente accetta, ma non sa che la sua missione è praticamente mortale: dovrebbe infatti uccidere un consigliere militare sovietico a Pechino, mettendo fine a decenni di amicizia tra Cina e Urss. A addestrare Hel nella missione mortale è la bellissima Solange, una ex prostituta francese che però, partita da semplici favori sessuali, finisce con l'innamorarsi davvero di Hel. Ma le sorprese non finiscono qui. Tra prove-trabocchetto, missioni all'ultimo respiro, tradimenti e successi, giunto al momento della resa dei conti, Hel scopre che il suo aguzzino è la persona a lui più vicina...

L'epopea del West è ormai al tramonto. In una sperduta cittadina del Wyoming, ormai quasi abbandonata, se non fosse per la cinquantina di minatori che sbarcano ogni sabato a far baldoria, arriva un giovane straniero: Matthew Dubchek. E' gentile e abile, e dunque trova diversi lavoretti con cui si guadagna da vivere. E inizia anche a scoprire i piccoli e grandi segreti degli abitanti di un borgo all'apparenza tranquillo. Ma non appena arriva Lieder, pazzo assassino evaso dal manicomio criminale insieme a due fuorilegge, si scatena l'inferno. Lieder vuole impadronirsi dell'argento della miniera, ma anche liberare gli Stati Uniti da tutti quelli che ritiene parassiti: negri, cinesi e soprattutto ebrei.

THE MAIN: The Main is Montreal's teeming underworld, where the dark streets echo with cries in a dozen languages, with the quick footsteps of thieves and the whispers of prostitutes. It is a world where violence and brutality are a way of life. To the people of the Main, police lieutenant Claude LaPointe is judge and jury, father confessor and avenging angel. Montreal's police force has changed over time, but LaPointe has not. His commitment to justice is total, as is his devotion to the Main and its underworld community. But when a cold-blooded murderer invades LaPointe's territory, he is forced to examine his long-held beliefs and secrets and to confront his own loneliness and mortality. With a cast of unforgettable supporting characters and an unusual and remarkable hero, "The Main" is another gripping tale of death and danger, of action and mystery, by the incomparable Trevanian.

A westerner raised in Japan, he survived the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world's most artful lover and its most accomplished assassin. His greatest desire is to attain a state of effortless perfection . . . shibumi. But he is about to face his most sinister and corrupt enemy -- a supermonolith of espionage and monopoly bent on destroying him. . . . From the Paperback edition.

It is the summer of 1914. Golden days that look to roll on forever...who could hear the guns of August? Deep in the Basque countryside, a young doctor signs on at a clinic. His first case is simple, the consequences complex...for he meets a young woman, Katya, with whom he falls deeply in love.

Meet Jonathan Hemlock. He has a renovated Gothic church on Long Island for his home, he teaches art, climbs mountains, and performs assassinations (sanctions) to get money to augment his fabulous collection of art masterpieces purchased in the black market. Against his will he is tricked into a most hazardous sanction assignment that involves an attempt to conquer and scale on of the most treacherous mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps, the Eiger.

The scene is London, where Jonathan Hemlock is blackmailed into performing another "sanction" -- a top-secret political assassination -- in a nerve-wracking web involving dirty dealings among high-ranking British government officials and a British counterespionage group. Once again Hemlock's life hangs in the balance -- but this time the game is deadlier, the penalty for failure more grotesquely lethal than ever before!

De Main is een wijk in Montreal, een eerste toevluchtsoord voor de grote stromen immigranten: Europeanen, Aziaten, joden, katholieken. Het is een doorgangshuis waar de ouderen en zwakken achterblijven, waar de misdaad welig tiert dankzij de armoede en de ellende. Claude LaPointe, inspecteur van politie, is hier de centrale figuur. De Main is zijn wijk, al dertig jaar. Iedere uithoek kent hij, iedere zwerver, elke pooier en hoer, elke gangster, ieder ogenblik van wanhoop. Hij handelt naar eigen goeddunken en is niet alleen politieman, maar ook rechter en soms scherprechter. Het is de enige manier om de misdaad binnen de perken te houden. Dan wordt in een goor achterafsteegje een jonge Italiaan doodgestoken. LaPointe stelt een onderzoek in. In het begin lijkt het een routineklus, maar plotseling krijgt de zaak een onverwachte wending. De ontknoping is zowel schokkend als triest, en raakt niet alleen de identiteit van de moordenaar, maar ook die van LaPointe zelf.

Een jonge dorpsarts tracht het angstvallig bewaarde familiegeheim van een jonge vrouw te ontraadselen.

Een hoogleraar in de kunstgeschiedenis, die wanneer hij geld nodig heeft, voor de Amerikaanse intelligence service werkt, wordt vanwege zijn kwaliteiten als bergbeklimmer naar de Eiger gestuurd om jacht op een man te maken.