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Trevanian

    12 giugno 1931 – 14 dicembre 2005

    Questo autore è celebrato per la sua magistrale narrazione attraverso i generi, ottenendo un ampio riconoscimento e lo status di bestseller. Le sue opere sono note per i personaggi complessi e le trame avvincenti che hanno affascinato milioni di lettori. Sebbene abbia esplorato diversi stili letterari, ha mantenuto una voce distintiva che risuona con una profonda comprensione della condizione umana. La sua abilità unica nel fondere suspense e tematiche più profonde lo afferma come un narratore indimenticabile.

    Trevanian
    Satori
    Four Complete Novels
    L' estate di Katya
    Scala stranieri: L'estate di Katya
    Il ritorno delle gru
    Narratori moderni: Incidente a Twenty-Mile
    • 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.

      Narratori moderni: Incidente a Twenty-Mile
      3,0
    • 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.

      Four Complete Novels
      4,4
    • Satori

      • 416pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      A gripping thriller that follows assassin Nicholai Hel across Asia as he fights to regain his freedom. Sugamo Prison, Japan, October 1951. Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement for the murder of his mentor. A formidable assassin as well as a master of hoda korosu or 'naked kill', he has developed a supreme awareness of the presence of danger. Suddenly offered the chance of freedom, he feels it now as never before... Overseen by Haverford, his American spymaster he must go to Beijing and kill the Soviet Union's commissioner to China. In a landscape primed for war this is a suicide mission he has no choice but to accept. Can Hel succeed in winning his freedom and if so, at what cost? And can he ever achieve his ultimate goal of satori - the possibility of true understanding and harmony with the world?

      Satori
      4,1
    • Shibumi

      • 440pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      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.

      Shibumi
      4,2
    • 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.

      The Summer of Katya
      4,0
    • 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 Eiger Sanction
      3,9
    • 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!

      The Loo Sanction
      3,9