The Eiger Sanction

"Niceness is an overrated quality. Being nice is how a man pays his way into the party if he hasn't the guts to be tough or the class to be brilliant." Jonathan Hemlock teaches art at a university, but the modest sum he makes teaching doesn't cover his extravagant habits. He is renovating a Gothic ch......more

SP/EN Extraña novela. Al principio, parece una novela barata de espías. Te ríes mucho con todo ya que los personajes están llevados hasta el histrionismo: un espía incompetente; un jefe del tinglado albino con una secretaria devota y un ayudante con unas capacidades muy limitadas; un alpinista fanfarr......more

Many readers and reviewers swallow this book whole without realizing it is a satirical spoof on spy novels and movies of the 1960s, James Bond and the like. Should there be any doubt, examine the silly character names: Randy Nickers and Cherry Pitt, for example. He attacks the CIA by naming the book......more

Despite the fact that Clint Eastwood, obviously enamored with this tale, produced, directed and starred in the movie version, and despite the fact that he reproduced the plot perfectly, he could not capture the essence of the book. No fault of Eastwood's, because making a film adaptation of this nov......more

So strange that a book that was written partly as satire got taken so seriously. Lots of of over the top characters and scenes, but greatly entertaining. Some people thought Trevanian was Robert Ludlum writing under a pen name, but he wasn't. Eiger was Rodney Whitaker's first book under the pen name......more