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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.
Thus, though the plot of Ambler's book is fictional, it is set against a very concrete and real background - and at the time of writing, no one could have known for certain what Turkey's part in the war would be. According to Norman Stone, Ambler's early novels are "halfway between Buchan and Bond, and the difference is the cinema." Thrillers ...
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]
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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 Mask of Dimitrios is a 1939 novel by Eric Ambler. In the United States it was published as A Coffin for Dimitrios. [1] The book is sometimes regarded as Ambler's finest, [2] however this is disputed. [3] Ambler's discussions with Turkish exiles in Montparnasse provided some of the inspiration for the book. [2]
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A Kind of Anger is a novel by British thriller writer Eric Ambler, first published in 1964. Like many of Ambler's post-war novels the thriller plot is laced with elements of comedy. Like many of Ambler's post-war novels the thriller plot is laced with elements of comedy.