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1 Trevanian Hot Night in the City
St. Martin's Paperbacks December 9, 200 0-312-97882-0 / 9780312978822 Paperback Fine 
Wide-ranging in setting and tone, yet linked by their sense of irony and re verence for the past, these 13 short stories reflect in miniature the pseud onymous Trevanian's chameleonic career as a genre-defying author of popular fiction (Shibumi; Incident at Twenty-Mile). Most of the tales take place i n pre- and post-WWII urban environments, most notably the title story, whic h features a lonely girl dressed up like June Allyson and a gentlemanly sta lker who imitates Jimmy Stewart and W.C. Fields. Trevanian tells the story twice, the first version introducing the volume, the second ending it; each has a different denouement, but both are tragic. A similar period mustines s permeates "Snatch Off Your Cap, Kid!"Aan ode to the tramps and hobos of b ygone days; "After Hours at Rick's," an evocation of the timeless, edgy enn ui of last call at a pick-up bar; and "The Sacking of Miss Plimsoll," the s tory of an unusual relationship between a bestselling author and his litera ry secretary. Basque country serves as the backdrop for two of Trevanian's tales: a young couple come together in a light romantic farce entitled "The Engine of Fate," and a village idiot improves his lot in life by pretendin g that he has a fortune to bequeath in "That Fox-of-a-Be?at." The author ve ntures even farther afield with "Easter Story," set in ancient Rome and det ailing Pontius Pilate's first meeting with Jesus, and with a retelling of t he wise and witty Onondaga creation parable "How the Animals Got Their Voic es." Though he employs a number of hoary devices to achieve his effects, Tr evanian can be an engaging storyteller, with a knack for getting inside his 
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2 Trevanian Shibumi
Ballantine Books May 12, 1980 0-345-28585-9 / 9780345285850 Paperback Very Good 
A westerner raised in Japan, he survived the destruction of Hiroshima to em erge as the world's most artful lover and its most accomplished assassin. H is greatest desire is to attain a state of effortless perfection . . . shib umi. But he is about to face his most sinister and corrupt enemy -- a super monolith of espionage and monopoly bent on destroying him. . . . 
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3 Trevanian The Eiger Sanction
Avon 1973 0-380-00176-4 / 9780380001767 Paperback Very Good 
Meet Johathan Hemlock, professor of art, world-renowned mountain climber -- and freelance assassin for the CII. Hemlock is sent to Switzerland on a mi ssion to climb the notorious Eiger peak of the Alps, whose north face has m eant death to many climbers. Hemlock's target: one of his three fellow clim bers. The only problem is, CII can't tell him which one . . . 
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