Critical Essay by Newgate Callendar
The author who writes under the name of Trevanian is primarily interested in giving the reader a good time, and he resoundingly succeeds in ["The Eiger Sanc...
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Critical Essay by John Leonard
Mr. Trevanian, whose first name and whose real name are withheld from us, explains rather late in the murderous game of his new thriller, "Shibumi," that ...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Dickey
Nothing quite equals lying in the summer sun—having already paid your dues to the multinational corporations for exorbitantly priced gasoline, ridiculously...
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Critical Essay by Berton RouechÉ
["Shibumi"] is certainly not the kind of book that is bought to impress oneself or one's friends. Its popularity is, however, something of...
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Critical Essay by Anatole Broyard
Mr. Trevanian is not only a better writer than most of those who turn out suspense novels, he has also made a computerlike analysis of the various elements readers l...
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Critical Essay by The Spectator
Just as the hero of the novel of suspense and of the police procedure novel is increasingly a damaged figure, so the hero of the thriller is a lone figure, having affi...
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Critical Essay by Anatole Broyard
"The Loo Sanction" by the pseudonymous Trevanian is not as good, alas, as his first effort "The Eiger Sanction". It has all the same ingr...
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Critical Essay by Dick Datchery
[How] come an author can write one good mystery novel and then turn out [The Loo Sanction,] a disaster? Unless I was too charitable when I judged Trevanian's Th...
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Critical Essay by Oswell Blakeston
[In The Loo Sanction,] Trevanian works to give rip to his mystery with the unusual: a villain who holds all the patents on sexual excitement, a vicar who's h...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Mclellan
[Nothing in The Eiger Sanction and The Loo Sanction] could have prepared the aficionado for what we have here [in The Main]. In those books, he showed a more-than-re...
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Critical Essay by Evan Connell
The Main is a detective story with enough wit and perception to attract readers who don't give a damn who killed Roger Ackroyd. Lieutenant La Pointe plods around...
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Critical Essay by Donald Newlove
The Main, a Montreal slum, swarms with petty criminals, riffraff, immigrant Greeks, Hungarians, Jews, Germans, French, Chinese, gimpy vags and back-alley whores, men ...
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Critical Essay by Newgate Callendar
