$39.35
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2009
Summary
‘The greatest spy novelist of all time’ - San Francisco Chronicle
Kenton’s career as a journalist depends on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European politics and his quick judgement. Where his judgement sometimes fails him, however, is in his personal life. When he travels to Nuremberg to investigate a story about a top-level meeting of Nazi officials, he inadvertently finds himself on a train bound for Austria after a bad night of gambling. Stranded with no money, Kent…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141190341 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141190345 |
| Author: | Eric Ambler, Thomas Jones |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2009 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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‘A crackerjack spy story, jammed with action, intrigue, thrills and super-villainy’ Saturday Review ‘If you want to experience the feel of the Continent in the 1930s, you will find few better guides’ - Robert Harris
About The Author
Eric Ambler
Eric Ambler (1909-98) was one of the most fascinating British writers of the late 1930s. His novels retain a remarkable sense of the dread and terror that filled Europe as world war broke out. Some were made into films (not least Orson Welles’ superb version of Journey into Fear), all were bestsellers, inventing a new, more realistic form of spy novel, where the main protagonist is not so much a hero as a victim, pursued by malevolent Fascist forces of overwhelming power. These are paranoid stories, but written at a time when paranoia was disturbingly close to common sense.
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