Incident at Twenty Mile

Incident at Twenty Mile
Author: Trevanian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1998
Genre: Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN: 9780312192334

A trio of convicts occupy a small community in Wyoming and terrorize its unarmed inhabitants. An opportunity for Matthew Dubchek, a young drifter with a gun, to live his fantasy of being Ringo Kid. Question is will he have the guts.

Incident at Twenty-Mile

Incident at Twenty-Mile
Author: Trevanian
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1999-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312970239

For fifteen years he has been silent. Now, the legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author of such classic suspense novels as The Eiger Sanction and Shibumi returns-- unleashing a stunning thriller set against the backdrop of the American West. 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 à Twenty-Mile

Incident à Twenty-Mile
Author: Trevanian
Publisher: Éditions Gallmeister
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 2404010158

En 1898, au coeur des montagnes du Wyoming, la petite bourgade de Twenty-Mile dépérit en même temps que s’épuise sa mine d’argent. C’est donc avec scepticisme que ses quinze derniers habitants considèrent l’arrivée inopinée d’un jeune étranger bien décidé à se faire une place parmi eux. Mais le danger vient d’ailleurs : trois tueurs au sang froid, échappés de prison, s’abattent sur la ville pour y attendre le prochain convoi chargé de minerai. L’isolement de Twenty-Mile, encore renforcé par une terrible tempête, va coûter cher à ses habitants pris au piège.

The Loo Sanction

The Loo Sanction
Author: Trevanian
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2005-08-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307238415

A First-Rate Thriller from a Legendary Master Jonathan Hemlock, the art professor and mercenary who first excited readers with his daring exploits in The Eiger Sanction, returns in an even more masterful adventure in The Loo Sanction, Trevanian’s second thrilling spy novel. Hemlock has gone to England to rest, but his vacation is interrupted when the head of British Intelligence needs 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: to locate a set of secretly made films that incriminate a number of high-ranking British officials. His target: a top underworld figure who delights in debauchery and torture. Facing this threat, Jonathan is drawn into a labyrinthine network of intrigue and depravity. As all the pieces in the dangerous puzzle begin to come together, Jonathan is trapped, almost fatally drugged, and forced to attempt one of the most daring escapes ever conceived. The Loo Sanction is sure to keep readers frantically turning pages until the thrilling climax. Also available as an eBook Look for these other Trevanian classics from Three Rivers Press: Shibumi, The Eiger Sanction, The Main, and The Summer of Katya.

The Summer of Katya

The Summer of Katya
Author: Trevanian
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2005-06-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307238466

Part love story and part psychological thriller from best-selling author Trevanian, "a tour de force... A story that explores meticulously some of the darker corners of the human soul." -- The Washington Post In the quiet Basque countryside in 1914, Jean-Marc Montjean, a handsome young doctor, moves to the small French village of Salies to assist the village physician. It's there that he meets the seductive, beautiful Katya Treville. Jean-Marc is bewitched, driven to know everything about her. But as he and her family become friendly, he realizes they are haunted by an old, dark secret. When Jean-Marc learns that the Trevilles are planning to leave the village forever, he insists on a final meeting with Katya. That meeting and the events that follow turn what was an idyllic romance into an unending nightmare. And when Katya’s secret is revealed, the chilling climax will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned. "A most exquisite, elegant, ingenious thriller." -- The New York Daily News

The Eiger Sanction

The Eiger Sanction
Author: Trevanian
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2005-05-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 030723844X

Jonathan Hemlock lives in a renovated Gothic church on Long Island. He is an art professor, a mountain climber, and a mercenary, performing assassinations (i.e., sanctions) for money to augment his black-market art collection. Now Hemlock is being tricked into a hazardous assignment that involves an attempt to scale one of the most treacherous mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps, the Eiger. In a breathtakingly suspenseful story that is part thriller and part satire, the author traces Hemlock’s spine-tingling adventures, introducing a cast of intriguing characters—villains, traitors, beautiful women—into the highly charged atmosphere of danger. The accumulating threads of suspicion, accusation, and evidence gradually knit themselves into a bizarre and death-defying climax in this exciting, entertaining novel that will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the last absorbing page.

Hot Night in the City

Hot Night in the City
Author: Trevanian
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2000
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312978822

The author of "Incident at Twenty-Mile, The Summer of Katya, " and "The Eiger Sanction" presents 13 short stories that introduce unforgettable characters as they each experience compelling situations through the course of one night in the streets of big cities in America, France, the Holy Land, mythic Britain, modern London, and the primitive North American heartland. Martin's Press.

Twenty Miles From A Match

Twenty Miles From A Match
Author: Sarah E. Olds
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-05-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0874174619

Twenty Miles From a Match, originally published in 1978, is the autobiography of an indomitable woman and her family’s twenty years of adventures and misadventures in a desert wilderness. In 1908, a venturesome woman named Sarah Olds packed up her brood and went homesteading in the deserts north of Reno, west of Sutcliffe on Pyramid Lake. Her ailing husband said, welcoming her to their new home, "There, old lady. There’s your home, and it’s damn near in the heart of Egypt." Olds tells of the hardships, frustrations, poverty, and other tribulations her family suffered from shortly after the turn of the century until well into the Great Depression. Through it all, however, runs a thread of humor, cheerfulness, and the ability to laugh at adversity. The foreword is by her daughter, Leslie Olds Zurfluh, the fourth of Sarah and A. J. Olds's six children.