Eric Ambler Books

This deluxe illustrated edition contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first twelve stories and includes such famous cases as "The Red-headed League," in which Holmes uncovers a well-concealed, devilishly clever criminal plot; "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," in which Holmes must trap a jewel thief-with astonishing results; "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," in which Holmes and Watson find themselves dealing with treachery, violence, and deadly snakes; and nine more equally thrilling and puzzling mysteries.

Fleeing to Central Africa to save his skin, Arthur Simpson convinces his new employers that he is an accomplished soldier of fortune. That gets him mixed up with a multinational corporation who is vying for mineral rights in a hotly contested border area where no one trusts no one.

Charles Latimer is back. Thirty years after Eric Ambler introduced the world to unlikely hero, academic and novelist Charles Latimer in The Mask of Dimitrios, Latimer returns in The Intercom Conspiracy. Now a bestselling author promoting a new book, Latimer steps in to help Theodore Carter, the hapless, hard-drinking editor of international political newspaper Intercom. A small paper suddenly publishing big secrets, Intercom has recently been purchased and the once frivolous publication is causing a stir. Carter suspects something is amiss and sets about investigating his mysterious new bosses and the sources of the suddenly serious secrets he’s publishing. As Latimer and Carter get closer to the truth, they realise they’re jeopardising more than just their careers.

Another thriller by the author of "The Mask of Dimitrios", "The Schirmer Inheritance" and "The Levanter".

A coup d'état in a Caribbean state causes a political storm in the region and even the seemingly impassive and impersonal Doctor Castillo, nicknamed Doctor Frigo, cannot escape the consequences. As things heat up, Frigo finds that both his profession and life are horribly at risk.

“Cerebral twists and sophisticated wit.” —Time Criminologist Frits Krom secures an interview with Paul Firm, the director of an ostensibly legitimate international investment firm who is in fact an expert in tax avoidance. It soon becomes evident that the host and his guests are under siege by a third party, one whose motives and violent intentions are unclear. If they are to survive, the criminal and the criminologist will have to work together.

Lucia Bernardi was last seen driving a car at top speed away from a villa - and the body of her murdered Iraqi lover - in Switzerland. Now disgraced journalist Piet Maas has been sent to find her in the south of France. When he does, he must decide whether to get the scoop of his lifetime - or to plunge into ever more dangerous waters with her. Featuring a cast of fraudsters, hitmen and Kurdish revolutionaries, A Kind of Anger is a classic thriller from the father of the genre.

'The man who lit the way for us all' Len Deighton An Indian clerk, Girija Krishnan, sees the opportunity of his lifetime when he stumbles on an abandoned cache of arms hidden in the Malayan jungle. If he can sell the weapons, he will be able to achieve his lifelong dream of owning a bus company - although the penalty for gun-running is death. Soon his decision becomes the catalyst for a chain of events involving an entrepreneurial Chinese family, a corrupt Colonel and, finally, a naïve couple of American tourists who find themselves horribly out of their depth.

Kenton's career as a journalist depended on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European politics, and his quick judgment. Where his judgment sometimes failed him was in his personal life. When he finds himself on a train bound for Austria with insufficient funds after a bad night of gambling, he jumps at the chance to earn a fee to help a refugee smuggle securities across the border. He soon discovers that the documents he holds have a more than monetary value, and that European politics has more twists and turns than the most convoluted newspaper account. schovat popis

Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be developed at a local chemists, he suddenly finds himself mistaken for a Gestapo agent and a charge of espionage is levelled at him. To prove himself innocent to the French police, he must discover which one of his fellow guests at his pension is the real spy. As he desperately tries to uncover the true culprit�s identity, Vadassy must risk his job, his safety and everything he holds dear.

Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul b ite, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with plans for a Turkish defense system, the seductive cabaret dancer and her manager husband, and a number of surprising allies. Thrilling, intense, and masterfully plotted, Journey Into Fear is a classic suspense tale from one of the founders of the genre.

English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when he makes the acquaintance of police inspector Colonel Haki, from whom he hears of Dimitrios - a criminal. Latimer decides to retrace Dimitrios' steps to gather material for a new book. In entering Dimitrios' criminal underworld, he realizes that his own life may be on the line.

Marlow travelled to Milan to work at a time when political consciousness was raw & uncompromising. He left sooner than he'd intended. The firm he worked for produced shell cases, & the shells were instruments of war. Disengagement was impossible.

The Light of Day was the basis for Jules Dassin’s classic film, Topkapi. When Arthur Abdel Simpson first spots Harper in the Athens airport, he recognizes him as a tourist unfamiliar with city and in need of a private driver. In other words, the perfect mark for Simpson’s brand of entrepreneurship. But Harper proves to be more the spider than the fly when he catches Simpson riffling his wallet for traveler’s checks. Soon Simpson finds himself blackmailed into driving a suspicious car across the Turkish border. Then, when he is caught again, this time by the police, he faces a choice: cooperate with the Turks and spy on his erstwhile colleagues or end up in one of Turkey’s notorious prisons. The authorities suspect an attempted coup, but Harper and his gang of international jewel thieves have planned something both less sinister and much, much more audacious.

It is Syria in 1970, three years after the Six Days War. Michael Howell was utterly apolitical and genetically programmed for survival, a Levantine of mixed origin who possessed profitable business enterprises throughout the Middle East and an Italian mistress as his office manager. Life was sweet for Michael Howell until, one night in Damascus, he discovered that his factories had become the clandestine operations base of the Palestine Action Force, a fanatical terrorist organization dead-set on destroying Israel. Suddenly, Howell is caught in the middle with nowhere to run. Eric Ambler is the recipient of four Gold Dagger Awards and one Silver. In 1975, he was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.

It wasn’t anyone’s idea of a glamorous first assignment at a white show law firm. George Cary, former WWII bomber pilot and newly minted lawyer, was given the ignoble task of going through the tons of files on the Schneider Johnson case, just to make sure nothing had been overlooked. But, as luck would have it, George did discover something among the false claims and dead-end leads that made this into more than just another missing-heir-to-a vast-fortune case. And what he found would connect a deserter from Napoloeon’s defeated army to a guerrilla fighter in post-war Greece, and lead Cary himself into a dangerous situation where his own survival will depend more on what he learned in the army than anything he learned in law school.

The warning message arrived on Monday, the bomb itself on Wednesday. It became a very busy week...

From dust jacket notes: "If you are one of the hundreds of thousands who already know Eric Ambler's superb 'thrillers' - he hates the word himself, but there is no other convenient designation for these extraordinary tales of undercover plottings and spies at work - you will certainly want this book. If you have not yet read Ambler, you have been missing the man who is absolutely the best in his field. Because, as Alfred Hitchcock points out in his Introduction, Ambler writes first-rate, suspense-filled, exciting stories about entirely credible, decent, very human fellows in tough situations. They are filled with equally credible pictures of the suave political gangsters, disreputable big-business men, and riffraff of the cheap cafes who made life on the political fringes of continental Europe an unpleasant thing for decent fellows to stumble into during the 1930's. You can take Eric Ambler, if you wish, on several levels at once; and on every one of them he is tops...."

Mehr SpionagegeschichtenDie Erzählungen in dieser Auswahl von Spionagegeschichten von Eric Ambler sind atemberaubender als manch langes Agentenepos, und in seiner Einleitung legt Ambler, ein Kenner des Genres, seine nicht weniger unterhaltenden Ansichten über die Spionagegeschichte dar. John Buchan, Somerset Maugham, Compton Mackenzie, Ian Fleming und Michael Gilbert geben mit ihren Geschichten einen weiteren Einblick in diese schillernde Berufswelt.

Zehn Jahre nach Erscheinen des ersten Teils seiner Autobiographie 'Ambler by Ambler' ließ sich „der beste aller Thrillerautoren“ (Graham Greene) von seinem berühmten englischen Kollegen Julian Symons dazu überreden, die Geschichte seines Lebens erneut aufzugreifen. Doch Ambler wäre nicht Ambler, ließe er es bei bloßen Lebenserinnerungen bewenden - auch wenn sein Leben spannend ist wie ein Thriller.

Für seine Thriller und Spionagegeschichten ließ sich Eric Ambler stets von der Wirklichkeit inspirieren. In Die Begabung zu töten befaßt er sich eins zu eins mit tatsächlich geschehenen Kriminalfällen. Eine Art Fact-crime-Literatur über berühmte und weniger berühmte Morde und Mörder, tatsächliche Verbrechen und die zwielichtige Rolle von Presse und Justiz.

Ambler, der Autor, läßt sich vom Biographen Ambler nach einem fast tödlichen Unfall auf dem Krankenbett die Lebensbeichte abnehmen: über die Kindheit im Süden Londons, seine Zeit als Ingenieur, als Werbetexter, seine ersten Romane, die Kriegsjahre als Motorradfahrlehrer, Artillerieoffizier und als Verfasser und Regisseur von Kriegsfilmen, über Zeitgenossen und Freunde und über vieles mehr.

Eric Ambler ist ein Kenner Europas, der die politischen und finanziellen Gegebenheiten des Kontinents versteht.

Dieser Thriller ist Pflichtlektüre für Bankiers, Steuerbeamte, Juristen, Politiker und Manager. Es geht um den feinen, den eigentlichen Kriminellen unserer Zeit: den Wirtschaftsfachmann mit besten Verbindungen und Umgangsformen, der den Grundstock seines Vermögens als Geldwäscher legte (auch der schmutzigste Schein wurde bei ihm Blüten-weiß), den öffentlich und reputierlich agierenden Steuervermeider.

Se in una affamata repubblica balcanica un genio offuscato dal più selvaggio nazionalismo mette a punto un ordigno capace di sovvertire l’ordine mondiale non c’è da stare allegri. Tanto più che l’Ixania è una democrazia da burla, dominata in realtà dal principe Ladislaus e da sua sorella, la bellissima e letale contessa Schverzinski, dal volto simile a un dipinto di scuola umbra. Come se non bastasse, il Paese è sull’orlo della rivoluzione e alla macchina infernale inventata dal professor Kassen si interessa anche una delle più potenti industrie di armamenti. Toccherà al candido e goffo professor Barstow, improvvisatosi per l’occasione spietata spia internazionale, e a Casey, l’inviato del «Tribune» che gli fa da spalla, venire a capo di un diabolico intrigo dove ciascuna delle forze in campo, dal Partito dei Giovani Contadini alla Società del Guanto Rosso, rappresenta un’oscura minaccia. Romanzo d’esordio di Ambler, La frontiera proibita è già, al pari della «bomba Kassen», una infernale macchina (narrativa), e una irresistibile spy-story, scoppiettante e beffarda: del mese trascorso da super-eroe in Ixania e del suo folle amore per Magda Schverzinski il professor Barstow, trovato svenuto sul Basilea-Parigi, non conserverà alcun ricordo.

Jena, ottobre 1806: il sergente Franz Schirmer, gravemente ferito in battaglia, trova rifugio presso la famiglia locale dei Dutka. Subito dopo, con brusco stacco cinematografico, ci troviamo trasportati in uno studio legale novecentesco, dove l’avvocato George L. Carey viene incaricato di scovare il destinatario della favolosa eredità di Amelia Schneider Johnson, vedova Schirmer. Per raggiungere il suo scopo, Carey – con l’aiuto di una sensuale segretaria e interprete – dovrà spostarsi incessantemente non solo nello spazio ma anche nel tempo, scardinando le serrature di molti armadi della memoria storica, dai quali caverà ogni volta scheletri perturbanti. Per una felice circostanza, Il caso Schirmer , che è forse il thriller più compatto e ispirato di Ambler, fu tradotto da Giorgio Manganelli, in anni in cui non era ancora stato riconosciuto come un maestro della prosa italiana. Il caso Schirmer apparve per la prima volta nel 1953.

De Engelse thrillerschrijver Charles Latimer is op vakantie in Turkije als hij kolonel Haki ontmoet. Deze man is een liefhebber van spannende boeken en vertelt Latimer over de mysterieuze en berichte Dimitrios - een gangster, huurmoordenaar, spion en vrouwenhandelaar die voor een geheimzinnige bank werkte en wiens lichaam onlangs uit de Bosporus is gevist. Latimer is gefascineerd door het verhaal en besluit de mythe rond Dimitrios te ontrafelen en het verhaal te gebruiken voor een nieuw boek. Al snel slaat zijn fascinatie echter om in een obsessie. En als hij zich in de onderwereld van Dimitrios begeeft, ontdekt Latimer - met gevaar voor eigen leven - dat niets is wat het lijkt.

Eigentlich ist Steve Fraser auf dem Heimweg: seine dreijährige Mitarbeit als Entwicklungshilfe-Ingenieur beim Tangga-Staudamm in Sunda ist beendet, er freut sich auf den Flug nach London. Während der drei Tage, die er in der Hauptstadt darauf warten muß, wird das Hochhaus, wo er und seine Freundin übernachten, zum Hauptquartier eines Offiziersputsches. Steve und Rosalie müssen um ihr Leben fürchten.

Un avvocato di Filadelfia, George Carey, è chiamato a ricercare il legittimo erede di una vistosa fortuna, legittimo erede che, dagli atti ufficiali, risulta disperso durante la ritirata tedesca di Salonicco. Tenacemente Carey segue le tracce del suo cliente fantasma attraverso paesi ostili e misteriosi, un pittoresco labirinto di colpi di scena e di incontri drammatici. Al suo fianco una giovane interprete, avviata a diventare, di giorno in giorno, qualcosa di più importante di una brava traduttrice. Un suggestivo esempio di quella narrativa avventurosa che concilia perfettamente, e con sano equilibrio, invenzione e verosimiglianza.

Per chiedere a Claire di sposarlo l’ingegner Nicholas Marlow non avrebbe dovuto scegliere il giorno in cui la sua ditta gli comunica il licenziamento. E prima di accettare un nuovo posto sul Continente avrebbe dovuto chiarire alcuni punti. Di quale lavoro, in realtà, si trattasse. Perché il suo predecessore fosse stato ucciso. Se fossero da considerare parte del misterioso incarico le telefonate intercettate, la posta aperta, i movimenti controllati. Ma Nicholas è giovane e innocente, e decide comunque di partire. Nonostante il Paese in cui è diretto abbia una millenaria tradizione di intrighi, tradimenti, doppie verità. Nonostante l’immensa sagoma bianca della stazione in cui scende, sfuocata dalla notte e dalla nebbia, sia un’immagine quasi perfetta della minaccia che lo sovrasta. E nonostante la città grigia, fumosa e deserta in cui si addentra abbia un nome così strano, e già di per sé così inquietante: Milano.

Amblerovi se podařilo vytvořit typ hrdiny. Žádný geniální detektiv s tvrdými pěstmi, jemuž se vyhýbají kulky. Vadassy je dobrák od kosti,trochu smolař a trochu popleta. Právě jeho pověří zpravodajská služba pátráním po špionovi.