Phyllis Dietrichson is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who inspires in her nothing but contempt, but rather than leave him Phyllis decides to kill him and collect on the insurance policy she's had set up with the help of her lover, and naive partner in crime, insurance salesman Walter Neff. The only flaws in their plan are the company's reluctance to pay out so much, the diligence of Neff's increasingly suspicious colleague, (and his 'little man'), and the exemplary ruthlessness of Ph find out more...

Hemlock is a retired assassin who now passes his days as an art collector. Enticed out of retirement by the opportunity to avenge the death of an old friend, Hemlock finds himself on a climbing expedition up the Swiss Alps, his only certainty that one of the team (apart from himself obviously) is a killer. The Eiger Sanction is an enjoyable enough action thriller, slightly dated and occasionally becalmed, but the mountaineering itself makes up for many of the lapses. find out more...