trevanian (was Re: Wanda Tinasky)

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com wrote:

>      possibly old hat... but...
>      
>      does anyone remember a rumor that the author of the 70's spy thriller 
>      parodies 'the eiger sanction', 'shibumi', and so on was actually 
>      pynchon. i recall there having been certain similarities between 
>      'shibumi' and VL in terms of characters and voice. i never did hear 
>      any definitive-sounding pronouncement as to whether or not there was 
>      any substance to the the rumor (though it seemed likely enough to 
>      me)...


I never heard this before. I think that after The Eiger Sanction someone
else was assigned the task of writing the Trevanian books, Trevanian being
a pen name owned by the publisher.   E S was written at least in part by a
writer with an Armenian sounding name. Jack Something. He was actually a
serious novelist who wrote about the Armenian experience against the Turks
and such. I picked one of the books up at a Vassar Book Sale  once because
I knew the guy slightly. These might have been suggestive  of Pynchon as
far as exotic and grisly subject matter are concerned. 

			P.