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Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 23 October 1998) was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels, who introduced a new realism to the genre. Also working as a screenwriter , Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books written with Charles Rodda.
The Light of Day is a 1962 novel by Eric Ambler. Plot. Arthur Abdel Simpson, the narrator, was born in Egypt to an Egyptian mother and a British soldier father. After ...
The Care of Time (1981) is the last novel by British spy fiction writer Eric Ambler. It deals with the theme of international terrorism, using fictional unpublished memoirs of Russian terrorist Sergey Nechayev as a plot device.
The Levanter is a 1972 novel by Eric Ambler. Plot. Michael Howell is a "levantine mongrel" [1] who has inherited his family's Middle-Eastern business. He is forced by ...
The novel was one of the first six of Ambler's books which made his name. Ambler wrote in his autobiography, "As I saw it, the thriller had nowhere to go but up". [4] The Dark Frontier parodies the conventions of the contemporary British thriller, [2] [5] particularly E. Phillips Oppenheim and John Buchan, [6] but improves upon them. [7]
The novel was published and is set just before World War II. Vadassy is a typical Ambler protagonist, sympathetic but out of his depth. The plight of stateless individuals is a recurring theme in Ambler's novels. [1] The hotel setting makes the novel similar to a country house whodunit. [2]
Dirty Story: A Further Account of the Life and Adventures of Arthur Abdel Simpson is a 1967 novel by Eric Ambler.It was also published as This Gun for Hire. [1] [2] [3]The book continues the life of Ambler's anti-hero, petty criminal Arthur Abdel Simpson, a man whose English father and Egyptian mother have given him uncertain citizenship.
Uncommon Danger is the second novel by British thriller writer Eric Ambler, published in 1937.It was published in the United States as Background To Danger. [1] [2] In his autobiography, Here Lies Eric Ambler, Ambler explains that "Background To Danger" was the original title, but his British publisher disliked the word 'background', so it was published in all English-speaking countries except ...