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Jun 28, 1909 — Oct 22, 1998· 89 yrs

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Eric Ambler

Also known as: E. Ambler

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Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an influential British author of thrillers, in particular spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. He also worked as a screenwriter. Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda. Source: Wikipedia

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I went to represent the Association.

— from Waiting for Orders, 1991

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To Catch a Spy

2002

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This anthology of spy stories, selected and introduced by Eric Ambler, contains seven different stories by seven different authors. The Loathly Opposite by John Buchan Giulua Lazzari by Somerset Maugham The First Courier by Compton Mackenzie I Spy by Graham Greene Belgrade 1926 by Eric Ambler From a View To A Kill by Ian Fleming On Slay Down by Michael Gilbert

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A Coffin for Dimitrios

1939

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A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers. At first merely curious to reconstruct the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery that spans the Balkans. The classic story of an ordinary man seemingly out of his depth, The Mask of Dimitrios (published as A Coffin for Dimitrios in the United States) remains Eric Ambler's most widely acclaimed novel.

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The Light of Day

1962

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Arthur Simpson is a petty thief who is discovered stealing from a hotel room. His victim, however, turns out to be a criminal in a league well above his own and Simpson is blackmailed into smuggling arms into Turkey for use in a major jewel robbery. The Turkish police, however, discover the arms and he is further 'blackmailed' by them into spying on the 'gang' - or rot in a Turkish jail. However, agreeing to help brings even worse danger ....

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