Ambler, Eric 1909-1998Overview
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The light of day
by Eric Ambler
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59 editions published between 1953 and 2006 in English and held by 1,672 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The grand master of suspense has created an engaging thriller about a bumbling petty thief caught up in an international jewel heist
The Levanter
by Eric Ambler
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44 editions published between 1972 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,592 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Michael Howell is "the Levanter," an English businessman trying to keep his family firm intact in Syria, a country undergoing a revolution. He and his secretary-mistress are captured by a splinter group who want him to manufacture bombs
A night to remember
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25 editions published between 1958 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 1,456 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In his unforgettable rendering of Walter Lord's book of the same name, the acclaimed British director Roy Ward Baker depicts with sensitivity, awe, and a fine sense of tragedy the Titanic's final hours. Featuring remarkably restrained performances, this is one of cinema's subtlest, finest dramatizations of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe
The care of time
by Eric Ambler
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34 editions published between 1981 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 1,409 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Spionroman
The Schirmer inheritance
by Eric Ambler
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52 editions published between 1953 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 1,246 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Story of a lawyer searching for the lost heir to an American fortune and finally finding him living as a bandit chief in the hills of Greece
Journey into fear
by Eric Ambler
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62 editions published between 1940 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,099 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Story of international intrigue and a mounting fear of death in the mind of an English engineer returning from Turkey
The siege of the Villa Lipp
by Eric Ambler
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16 editions published between 1977 and 2013 in English and held by 1,067 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Paul Firman advises rich corporations and individuals on tax havens and shelters for their excess cash. He has built up a sideline of blackmail. At a seminar in Brussels, his past catches up with him
Doctor Frigo
by Eric Ambler
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50 editions published between 1974 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,064 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Doctor Frigo is a doctor in a civil hospital on a small island in the French Antilles. He was the son of a very deeply and powerfully involved in the viole nt politics of a Central American state, and was assassinated--some say martyred. It takes a month -the span of the novel- to find out
The Intercom conspiracy
by Eric Ambler
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49 editions published between 1959 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,038 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Now a successful, bestselling author on the trail of a new book, Latimer steps in to help Theodore Carter, the hapless, hard-drinking editor of Intercom, a small, international political newspaper, investigate his bosses and the sources of the secrets he's publishing. It was recently purchased by two magnates who are, unbeknownst to the frazzled Carter, chief intelligence officers in two minor NATO countries. Not all of Intercom's readers are happy with some recent stories, which are surprisingly more truthful and a lot more dangerous than the rumors and fictions that used to fill its pages--and some of those readers will go to any length to keep their secrets safe. As Latimer and Carter get closer to the truth, they realize they're jeopardizing more than just their careers
Passage of arms
by Eric Ambler
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61 editions published between 1959 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 975 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In this classic thriller, two American tourists find more adventure than they bargained for when they get involved with Chinese gun smugglers and Muslim revolutionaries, learning first hand about the intrigue of the post-colonial world
A kind of anger
by Eric Ambler
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41 editions published between 1964 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 945 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An insecure journalist plays a game of intrigue and blackmail in his search for a woman suspected of being the accomplice to a Kurdish refugee's murder
A coffin for Dimitrios
by Eric Ambler
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37 editions published between 1939 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 939 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Three tales of espionage and suspense
The dark frontier
by Eric Ambler
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49 editions published between 1936 and 2013 in English and held by 913 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "England, 1935. Physicist Henry Barstow is on holiday when he meets the mysterious Simon Groom, a representative for an armaments manufacturer. Groom invites the professor to Ixania, a small nation-state in Eastern Europe whose growing weapons program threatens to destabilize the region. Only after suffering a blow to the head--which muddles his brain into believing he is Conway Carruthers, international spy--does the mild-mannered physicist agree to visit Ixania. But he quickly recognizes that Groom has a more sinister agenda, and Carruthers is the only man who can stop him"--Page 4 of cover
Judgment on Deltchev
by Eric Ambler
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44 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 765 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Tale of danger in a dictator-dominated Balkan country
Cause for alarm
by Eric Ambler
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46 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 749 WorldCat member libraries worldwide 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 to save some money. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth of his predecessor's death and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas. In the process, Marlow realizes it's not so simple to just do the job he's paid to do in fascist Italy on the eve of a world war. -- publisher's description
Epitaph for a spy
by Eric Ambler
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54 editions published between 1938 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 677 WorldCat member libraries worldwide 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 the German gentleman traveling under at least one assumed name. When the film he drops off at the chemist reveals photographs he has not taken, Vadassy finds himself the object of intense suspicion. The result is anything but the rest he had been hoping for. From the Trade Paperback edition
Dirty story; a further account of the life and adventures of Arthur Abdel Simpson
by Eric Ambler
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24 editions published between 1967 and 1989 in English and held by 630 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The mask of Dimitrios
by Eric Ambler
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51 editions published between 1939 and 2000 in English and Turkish and held by 573 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Kriminalroman. Forfatteren Charles Latimer beretter om Dimitrios Makropoulos, som blev fundet dræbt i Bosporus-strædet, og som var indblandet i mord og spionage
Intrigue; four great spy novels: Journey into fear, A coffin for Dimitrios, Cause for alarm, Background to danger
by Eric Ambler
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11 editions published between 1937 and 1970 in English and held by 558 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
To catch a spy, an anthology of favourite spy stories
by Eric Ambler
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21 editions published between 1964 and 1986 in English and held by 483 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Spionageverhalen more
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Adventure stories Ambler, Eric, Authors Authors, English Balkan Peninsula British Central America Cold War (1945-1989) Conspiracies Criminals Detective and mystery stories Diplomats Engineers English fiction Espionage in literature Europe, Eastern France--Riviera Great Britain Greece--Athens Illegal arms transfers Inheritance and succession Intelligence officers Intelligence service Israel Jewel thieves Journalists Justice, Administration of--Political aspects Language teachers Malaysia Marine accidents Middle East North Atlantic Ocean North Pacific Ocean Novelists Photographers Revolutions Shipwrecks Spies in literature Spy stories Spy stories, English Spy stories--Authorship Stateless persons Terrorists Titanic (Steamship) Transatlantic voyages Treason Trials (Treason) Triennale di Milano Turkey World War (1939-1945)
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