Eric Ambler: 37 books

Winner of the Edgar Award, Eric Ambler’s autobiography Here Lies is anintriguing look inside the mind of one of our greatest thriller writers. Here the famously recalcitrant Ambler peels back the layers of experience that affected his life with the same skill he uses to unfold the plots of his novels....

Waiting for Orders collects nine short stories that span the sixty-year career of master spy novelist Eric Ambler. The stories include thrilling portrayals of wartime Europe in “The Army of the Shadows” (1939); six cases featuring a refugee Czech detective, Dr. Czissar (1940); “The Blood Bargain”...

With The Ability to Kill, first published in 1963, renowned thriller writer Eric Ambler turns his attention to true crime—with an emphasis on murder. In five essays, he presents a sampling of famously intriguing (and often disturbing) cases of the last few hundred years, including 19th-century Edinburgh’s...

Partito alla ricerca di un manoscritto perduto di Nečaev – il nichilista russo capostipite di ogni specie di terroristi contemporanei –, il protagonista di questo romanzo, Robert Halliday, si ritrova sulle tracce di uno sceicco degli Emirati noto come «il Principe», che dal fondo di una miniera...

Eric Ambler is at the top of his form with A Kind of Anger, which expertly combines a satire of paparazzi-driven media culture with a classic espionage tale filled with breathless suspense. Six weeks ago, Lucia Bernardi fled the Swiss villa where her lover was murdered—and then she vanished....

The Dark Frontier launched Eric Ambler’s five-decade career as one of the most influential thriller writers of our time. 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...

Thirty years after Eric Ambler introduced the world to his unlikely hero, the academic and novelist Charles Latimer, in A Coffin for Dimitrios, Latimer returns in The Intercom Conspiracy. Now a successful, bestselling author on the trail of a new book, Latimer steps in to help Theodore Carter,...

Dr. Frigo is a change of scene for acclaimed spy thriller writer Eric Ambler, moving from the European theater to an equally intriguing Caribbean political stage. Dr. Ernesto Castillo has shunned politics and shut himself off from the world since his father, a Central American leader, was assassinated...

First published five years after he introduced Arthur Abdel Simpson in the comic thriller The Light of Day, Eric Ambler turns the spotlight back to his compelling antihero—a man you can’t help but root for. Arthur Abdel Simpson counts himself lucky to have survived his adventure at Istanbul’s...

One Monday, Robert Halliday receives a bomb threat in the mail. Two days later, the bomb arrives—accompanied by an offer of employment from one Karliss Zander, an international fixer. Unless Halliday agrees to help him edit the memoirs of a 19th century Russian terrorist and ghostwrite an exposé...

The “Able Criminal”, as defined by noted criminologist Frits Krom, strikes with no discernible pattern or method, and flies below the radar of crime syndicates and law enforcement agencies alike. He is virtually uncatchable—but Krom is willing to try. He knows that Paul Firman, the director...

‘De beste thrillerschrijver aller tijden' San Francisco Chronicle De Engelse thrillerschrijver Charles Latimer is op vakantie in Turkije als hij kolonel Haki ontmoet. Haki is een liefhebber van spannende boeken en vertelt Latimer over de mysterieuze en beruchte Dimitrios – een gangster,...

Quando gli dèi della buona letteratura presiedono alla nascita di un romanzo – il che, come sappiamo, non accade spesso –, può essere che la storia si presenti come uno di quei semplici, ma misteriosi giochi enigmistici in cui, per formare un disegno coerente, occorre unire una serie di puntini...

Per allestire un intrigo internazionale, come Alfred Hitchcock ha dimostrato, bastano due ingredienti: un’ambientazione esotica – oppure familiare, ma che da un momento all’altro appare sinistra – e un protagonista innocente, preso in un gioco più grande di lui, e potenzialmente mortale....