So I can’t say I know very much about Eric Ambler, other than to say that he and his career are sort of contemporaneous with someone like Raymond Chandler. He is most well know for crime fiction and mysteries, spy novels, and international suspense tales. He’s also one of those interesting writers who joined up the war effort and had a successful service career, becoming a Lt. Colonel. He’s also the author of several novels that were adapted to films — Journey into Fear starring […]
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.
A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler