Anyone Ever Read the Book?

I'm actually reading the book right now.
I'm not so interested in the climbing parts of the book, but I'm pushing through because I want to finish it. It helps that I've seen the movie a few times, so I'm pretty familiar with the characters. It's helping to get me through.
I loved Clint Eastwood as Hemlock, and I love it even more as I read the book. Not only was he a great fit for the role, but he has great onscreen chemistry with the actors portraying Big Ben and Jemima.
Have you read anything else by Trevanian?

Most folks--not all--but most who visit the message boards at IMDB don't know how to read.
Okay, cheap shot. The book was dull and the movie was ridiculous.

Yep, great book. Lousy movie, although the climbing stuff was cool. Movie didnt carry any of the complexitys of the Hemlock character....most of Trevanians books are good value, but probably wouldnt translate well to screen cause most of them dont have happy endings...Look at the Loo Sanction.

About 30 years ago I was in DC's Moonstone Bookstore(sci-fi, mystery) one Sunday when a couple came in looking for some books to take on vacaction. Phil Grosfeld, the owner, recommended Trevanian, and they said they were friends of his.
According to them Trevanian was Jack Hashem(?) who administered the CETA program and lived in Vienna, Va. Of course, this was at odds with a scant info the publishers provided. The POST'S government column Mike Causey interviewed Hashem who said he wrote books under a pseudonym. I called Causey who was quite surprised and said he liked the books.

Hashem wrote one book under his own name, but I don't remember the title, and he wrote a King Arthur novel(with locker room humor) under another name. Of course, this is all years and years ago, and my memory falters at times.

Very interesting to find somebody else identified as Trevanian.

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Yes.

I read the Eiger Sanction and liked it. When the Loo Sanction came out I bought it and it was OK but I thought the Eiger Sanction was better.

Bought Shubumi in an airport book store on vacation and read it on my trip. Liked it even less.

Then I read The Summer of Katya. Very disappointed. Didn't care for it at all.

Stopped reading Trevanian after that.

My wife got it for me when I was in hospital in 1975. Read it in a couple of hours, did not think much of it.

When the film came out I wondered how Clint Eastwood was going to play a man described as 5'9" tall.