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27 de jun. de 2018 · Eric Ambler. Eric Ambler (born 1909) is considered one of the masters of the thriller novel involving international intrigue and espionage. Of the six novels he wrote before World War II, four have been adjudged outstanding examples of the genre. Eric Ambler was born in London on June 28, 1909. In 1927 and 1928 he served as an engineering ...
Eric Ambler. 3.92. 3,897 ratings298 reviews. Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul boîte, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter.
Eric Ambler (1909-98) was born in London to parents who were part-time entertainers. He studied engineering but left college without taking a degree and became a copywriter in the advertising industry. Between 1937 and 1940, he published his great anti-fascist spy thrillers: Uncommon Danger, Epitaph for a Spy, Cause for Alarm, The Mask of Dimitrios, and Journey into Fear.
Eric Ambler is one of my favorite authors with good reason. He is the quintessential thriller writer. Even Ian Fleming called Ambler the inspiration for his James Bond series. Background to Danger has all the thrills of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. English journalist Kenton finds himself in hot water when he agrees to help a fellow European traveler smuggle some 'securities' out of Germany in ...
1 de feb. de 1991 · Eric Ambler is a master of narrative and an elder statesman of suspense. He virtually created the modern spy story with his ground-breaking series of pre-WWII novels; A Coffin for Dimitrios and Journey into Fear are hailed as classics of the form. Waiting for Orders is the first volume to collect Mr. Ambler's shorter works, most of which date ...
491 ratings44 reviews. Eric Ambler is at the top of his form with A Kind of Anger , which expertly combines a satire of paparazzi-driven media culture with a classic espionage tale filled with breathless suspense.Six weeks ago, Lucia Bernardi fled the Swiss villa where her lover was murdered—and then she vanished.
Eric Ambler, a left leaning intellectual, fully expected the Soviet Union to be an ally of Britain and his books from this period have sympathetic Soviet block characters. This book was published in 1939 just before Germany declared war on Poland.
