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Trevanian

    12. jún 1931 – 14. december 2005

    Tento autor je známy svojim majstrovským rozprávaním príbehov naprieč žánrami, ktoré si získalo široké uznanie. Jeho diela sa vyznačujú komplexnými postavami a pútavými zápletkami, ktoré uchvátili milióny čitateľov. Hoci sa pustil do mnohých literárnych štýlov, vždy si zachoval jedinečný hlas, ktorý rezonuje s hlbokým porozumením ľudskej podstate. Jeho jedinečná schopnosť kombinovať napätie s hlbším odkazom z neho robí nezabudnuteľného rozprávača.

    Trevanian
    The Main
    Satori
    Four Complete Novels
    Incident at Twenty-Mile
    The Summer of Katya
    Shibumi
    • 2014

      Jonathan Hemlock ist anerkannter Kunsthistoriker, weltbekannter Bergsteiger und unbequemer Mitarbeiter der Sonderabteilung »Strafaktion«, eines berüchtigten Ablegers des amerikanischen Geheimdienstes. Sein neuer Auftrag soll gleichzeitig sein letzter sein. Ziel: die Liquidierung eines mysteriösen feindlichen Agenten. Ort des Attentats: die Eiger-Nordwand. Der Killer-Experte Hemlock muss nicht nur gegen einen perfiden Gegner, sondern auch gegen die mörderischen Gefahren des Berges kämpfen ...

      Im Auftrag des Drachen
    • 2011

      Satori

      • 416 stránok
      • 15 hodin čítania
      4,1(67)Ohodnotiť

      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
    • 2006

      Follows the life of six-year-old Jean-Luc during the Depression, living with his little sister and young mother after being abandoned by his con-artist father

      The Crazyladies of Pearl Street
    • 2005

      The Main

      • 308 stránok
      • 11 hodin čítania
      3,9(1095)Ohodnotiť

      The Main is Montreals 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, jury, father confessor and avenging angel. Montreals 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 LaPointes 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.

      The Main
    • 1999

      Incident at Twenty-Mile

      • 343 stránok
      • 13 hodin čítania
      3,9(94)Ohodnotiť

      A godforsaken town. A young, eager-to-please stranger carrying a homemade shotgun and a staggering secret. And a madman escaped from the Territorial Prison at Laramie, cutting a swath of sadistic violence with two killers at his side. Now, for the people of Twenty-Mile-- the God-fearing and the godless, heroes, whores, lovers and a boy teetering on the edge of madness-- a siege is about to begin amidst a harrowing mountain storm. And when the killing, the thunder, and the terror are over, some will live, some will be buried, and the myth of the American frontier will never be the same...

      Incident at Twenty-Mile
    • 1983

      In 1914, Jean-Marc Montjean graduates from medical school and comes to a French Basque village, where his romance with Katya leads to his being shot.

      The Summer of Katya
    • 1981

      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
    • 1979

      Shibumi

      • 512 stránok
      • 18 hodin čítania
      4,2(12677)Ohodnotiť

      Nicolai Hel uses his nearly superhuman mental and physical prowess to destroy political terrorists and decides to take on The Mother Company itself, a supermonolith of espionage and economic monopoly.

      Shibumi