[1] In London, England, Jonathan Hemlock is blackmailed into performing another "sanction", a top-secret political assassination.

[citation needed] Some critics derided The Loo Sanction and The Eiger Sanction as "pale James Bond derivatives" while Trevanian considered the books intentional Bond spoofs.

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