found: New York times WWW site, Dec. 19, 2005(in obituary published Dec. 17: Rodney Whitaker; d. Wednesday [Dec. 14, 2005], West Country of England, aged 74; writer best known by one of his many pen names, Trevanian, who was the only writer of airport paperbacks to be compared to Zola, Ian Fleming, Poe, and Chaucer; although the entry in Who's who for Trevanian says that person was born in Tokyo on Jan. 12, 1925, other sources Mr. Whitaker himself was born on June 12, 1931, a date that would conform with his age of 74)