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A Kind of Anger by Eric Ambler
Category: Fiction
A high-octane story from the great Eric Ambler of a journalist on the run in the south of FranceLucia Bernardi was last seen driving a car at top speed away from a villa - and the body of her murdered Iraqi lover - in Switzerland. Now disgraced journalist Piet Maas has been sent to find her in the south ...Show more
Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler
Category: Fiction | Series: Pan Classic Crime Ser.
Nicky Marlow needs a job. He' s engaged to be married and the employment market is pretty slim in Britain in 1937. So when his fiancé points out the Spartacus Machine Tool notice, he jumps at the chance. After all, he speaks Italian and he figures he' ll be able to endure Milan for a year, long enough t ...Show more
Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler; Robert Harris (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Pan Classic Crime Ser.
When Josef Vadassy arrives at the Hotel de la Reserve at the end of his Riviera holiday, he is simply looking forward to a few more days of relaxation before returning to Paris. But in St. Gatien, on the eve of World War II, everyone is suspect-the American brother and sister, the expatriate Brits, and ...Show more
Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be developed at a local chemists, he suddenly finds himself mistaken for a Gestapo agent and a charge of espionage ...Show more
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger ste ...Show more
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
In the early stages of the Second World War, a British engineer and arms expert holds secret talks with the Turkish government. Shaken by an attempt on his life, he departs for home on an Italian freighter, with the knowledge that Nazi assassins aim to prevent his return. Friend and foe become quickly i ...Show more
Journey into Fear (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Eric Ambler
Category: Classic Fiction
One of the great chase stories- Nazi agents will stop at nothing to kill a British weapons expert on his long, fraught journey home from IstanbulIt is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him ...Show more
Passage of Arms by Eric Ambler
Category: Fiction
Ambler's classic thriller of post-war international politics and intrigue, centring on gun-smuggling in South-East AsiaGirija Krishnan, an Indian clerk, sees the opportunity of his lifetime when he stumbles on a lost cache of arms hidden in the Malayan jungle. If he can find a buyer for the weapons, he ...Show more
The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
Category: Fiction
Ambler's electrifying Istanbul-set thriller from 1962, and the basis for the classic film Topkapi Arthur Abdel Simpson is a failed journalist and soon-to-be failed thief, embittered by memories of his unhappy childhood in England and eking out a living in Athens. When he spots a newly arrived tourist at ...Show more
The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
Category: Crime and Thrillers
English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when he makes the acquaintance of Turkish police inspector Colonel Haki. It is from him that he first hears of the mysterious Dimitrios - an infamous master criminal, long wanted by the law, whose body has just been fished out of the Bosph ...Show more