The Loo Sanction, Trevanian
The Loo Sanction, Trevanian
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The Loo Sanction

Author: Trevanian

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 10 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/08/2009

Synopsis

Jonathan Hemlock, the art professor and mercenary who first excited readers with his daring exploits in The Eiger Sanction, returns for another masterful adventure. Jonathan has gone to England for a vacation, but it is interrupted when British Intelligence needs him for his highly skilled services. Jonathan must take over the mission of an agent whose murder was so bizarre and terrifying that no other agent was willing to replace him. His task is to locate a set of secretly made films that incriminate a number of highranking British officials. His target is a top underworld figure who delights in debauchery and torture. Facing this threat, Jonathan is drawn into a labyrinthine network of intrigue and depravity. When the pieces of the dangerous puzzle fall together, he will be forced to attempt one of the most daring escapes ever conceived.

About Trevanian

Trevanian (Rodney Whitaker, 1931–2005) was the bestselling author of Shibumi, The Eiger Sanction, The Loo Sanction, The Main, The Summer of Katya, and Incident at Twenty-Mile. He was also an educator in communication and dramatic arts and wrote nonfiction books under his own name. His books have been translated into more than fourteen languages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by S.P. on February 28, 2019

4.5 stars I did enjoy this book, even though it lacked the originality of the The Eiger Sanction. According to Trevanian, it was a spoof of The Eiger Sanction … a spoof of a spoof! Of course the title itself should give the reader a clue, "loo" being the British word for toilet! And of course we have......more

Goodreads review by Jim on October 19, 2017

More of a 3.5 rounded up. Hemlock is back, in England, so the title pretty much screams Trevanian's intention to sneer at all things English, artsy, & everything else, while wrapping it in an international thriller peopled with memorable characters. Hemlock isn't James Bond, though. He's smarter & e......more

Goodreads review by Chris on February 23, 2015

Trevanian's sequel to his classic The Eiger Sanction is awful. Absent are the humor, adventure, and all-out fun of that previous work. The plot is obvious with physically disgusting characters that nauseate the reader. Of course, there's Jonathan Hemlock's characteristically macho sexuality, along w......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on September 01, 2010

Everyone is no doubt familiar with the movie "Eiger Sanction" based on a book of the same name by Trevanian, pseudonym for a university professor who wrote a series of very popular genre novels. Miffed that critics and many readers did not get the spoof intended in the Eiger Sanction, he wrote the L......more

Goodreads review by Terry on May 03, 2019

A really fast read. I was expecting a classic thriller, but was surprised that it was such a campy book with such comical characters. Really a two and half star rating. Some humor caught me off guard, and some really clever lines here and there. I thought I had read 'The Eiger Sanction', the first b......more

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