The Loo Sanction cover art

The Loo Sanction

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

€0.00/month for the first 3 months
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

The Loo Sanction

By: Trevanian
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

 Jonathan Hemlock, the art professor and mercenary who first excited readers with his daring exploits in The Eiger Sanction, returns for another masterful adventure.

Jonathan has gone to England for a vacation, but it is interrupted when British Intelligence needs him for his highly skilled services. Jonathan must take over the mission of an agent whose murder was so bizarre and terrifying that no other agent was willing to replace him.

His task is to locate a set of secretly made films that incriminate a number of high-ranking British officials. His target is a top underworld figure who delights in debauchery and torture.

Facing this threat, Jonathan is drawn into a labyrinthine network of intrigue and depravity. When the pieces of the dangerous puzzle fall together, he will be forced to attempt one of the most daring escapes ever conceived.

©1973 Trevanian (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Espionage Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Exciting Fiction Mystery

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Dragonplague cover art
Shibumi cover art
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them cover art
Delicate Indecencies cover art
The Affair of the Porcelain Dog cover art
The Captors cover art
Meet the Tiger cover art
Deceptive Cadence cover art
Amberlough cover art
Artemis cover art
Hyperion cover art
Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition (1 of 2) (Dramatized Adaptation) cover art
Creed cover art
The Chronicles of Jonathan Tibbs: The Complete Trilogy cover art
The Mayfly cover art
The Stone Man - A Science Fiction Thriller, Book 1 cover art

Critic reviews

"A masterpiece...." ( The New York Times)
All stars
Most relevant  
Story ok; not as good as the first book but it wasn’t bad

However i nearly gave up several times because of the terrible accents.

Why oh why was every non American characters voice plucked from Mary Poppins. So bad as to be laughable.

I’m afraid the narration spoilt what should have been a better experience

Ok - but those accents!!!!!!!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great, but not a patch on the Eiger Sanction, Beautifully written and for any writer Trevarian is a master class on word use.

Well worth a listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
was hoping it was going to be another Eiger Sanction but it just wasnt. the story was no where as engaging as tge first novel.

Not a patch on the Eiger Sanction

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A good narration, with a few iffy accents though. They didn’t spoil the story, as the rest of the narration was very good. It’s the weakest of all the books, but still definitely worth a listen

Fun, but not his best

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
OK... you have to take this in the correct spirit and it is going to be a Marmite story ('love it or hate it').
This is a spy spoof that is played out seriously... its not 'Our Man Flint' but probably would be if it was filmed. As a book it is 'delivered' more like the 'James Bond' books (not films), and it is an enjoyable yarn. If you like those 60s/70s TV series spy series, you'll probably like this.
There are great bits of realism (well, maybe 'post-realism'... the Art theft in the book was copied later in a real life theft from a Milan gallery), and there are bits of 'Man from Uncle' silliness, right down to the name of the 'Loo' department.... hmmm.
The narrator seems to have more difficulty with the accents in this book than others he has narrated... As a another reviewer has mentioned, he cannot really get around the English and Irish accents acceptably, but rather than this being off-putting for me, I actually thought the 'Dick Van Dyke-ness' of the delivery went rather well with the comedic story... even though it is played out straight.
I really enjoyed this and found myself equally laughing at its silliness in places, while also wanting to work out the solutions to the plot.

A good fun listen...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Well paced, well written, memorable characters. Preposterous plot. Some good suspense if a slightly anticlimactic climax.

Enjoyable if preposterous

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Jonathon becomes embroiled in a very dark world. The experience wounds him deeply.It was a little too dark for me although I did enjoy seeing the world through Jonathon's perspective. The ending was too sad for me. However a masterpiece of fiction.

Loved Jonathon character

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I realised that this was a spoof spy story but I found it impossible to get past the reading style to find any humour there may have been there. I don't know whether the reader did the same damage to American accents but the English ones were very strange. There was cockney worthy of Dick van Dyke and sometimes used in the same sentence by the same character along with Irish and Birmingham and others. I may have been missing another joke but I was really glad when I reached the end and didn't have to listen to it any more.

Glad to have finished it

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.