Trevanian was the pen name of Dr Rodney William Whitaker. After exploding onto the bestseller lists with two thrillers, The Eiger Sanction (1972) and The Loo Sanction (1973), Trevanian followed with the bestsellers The Main (1976), Shibumi (1979) and The Summer of Katya (1983). After a fifteen year absence he reappeared as an author with Incident at Twenty-Mile (1998), Hotnight in the City (2000) and The Crazy Ladies of Pearl Street (2005). He died in 2005.
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