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  • The Maras Affair

    by Eric Ambler ...
    Charles Burton, journalist, cannot get work past Iron Curtain censors and knows he should leave the country. However, he is in love with his secretary, Anna Maras, and she is in danger. Then the President is assassinated and one of Burton's office workers is found dead. He decides to smuggle Anna out of the country, but her reluctance impedes him, as does being sought by secret police and counter ... Read more

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  • Background to Danger

    by Eric Ambler ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Intercom Conspiracy

    by Eric Ambler ...
    Series Book 2 - Charles Latimer
    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, the hapless, hard-drinking editor of Intercom, a small, international political newspaper, investigate his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    The Light of Day

    by Eric Ambler ...
    Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 25 min

    Alfred Hitchcock said, "Mr. Ambler is phenomenal," and Graham Greene referred to him as "our greatest thriller writer." This is an ideal title for introducing listeners to this master. Ambler brilliantly paints realistic portraits of his characters and the foreign landscape, mixing suspense with a subtle twist for added color.When Arthur Abdel Simpson first spots Harper in the Athens airport, he ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Dark Frontier. Illustrated

    by Eric Ambler ...
    Eric Ambler’s The Dark Frontier (1936) marks the debut of one of the greatest masters of modern spy fiction. A daring blend of adventure, satire, and political prophecy, the novel anticipates the nuclear age and establishes many of the themes that would define Ambler’s career. The story follows physicist Henry Barstow, a quiet and seemingly unremarkable English scientist who is suddenly drawn into ... Read more

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  • Skytip

    by Eric Ambler ...
    Peter Ackland is ordered to rest by his Doctor. He travels to Cornwall and is greeted by Henry Braddock at the door of a cottage below the 'skytip'. Braddock has a revolver in his pocket. Ackland also comes across Nathan Murrison and his valet, who divide their time between exploring the 'skytip' and propping up the bar of the Green Dragon; a charming young lady who, on behalf of a Member of ... Read more

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    Eric Ambler

    A BBC Radio Collection

    by Eric Ambler ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Clare Corbett, Daniel Rigby, Edward Hogg, Raad Rawi, Simon Scardifield ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 35 min

    BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of three of Eric Ambler’s bestselling spy thrillers, plus Nick Perry’s play The Battle of San Pietro and a bonus documentary, Ambler at 80Eric Ambler has been hailed as ‘the father of the modern spy story’. His tense, gritty thrillers introduced a new realism to the classic espionage mystery, and influenced novelists from Graham Greene to John le Carré. This collection ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cause for Alarm

    by Eric Ambler ...
    Nicky Marlow needs a job. He’s engaged to be married and the employment market is pretty slim in Britain in 1937. So when his fiancé points out the Spartacus Machine Tool notice, he jumps at the chance. After all, he speaks Italian and he figures he’ll be able to endure Milan for a year, long enough to save some money. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth of his predecessor ... Read more

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  • The Care of Time

    by Eric Ambler ...
    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 of modern terrorist governments, Zander will detonate the bomb. For the sake of self-preservation, ... Read more

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  • Epitaph for a Spy

    by Eric Ambler ...
    When Josef Vadassy arrives at the Hotel de la Reserve at the end of his Riviera holiday, he is simply looking forward to a few more days of relaxation before returning to Paris. But in St. Gatien, on the eve of World War II, everyone is suspect–the American brother and sister, the expatriate Brits, and the German gentleman traveling under at least one assumed name. When the film he drops off at ... Read more

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  • The Levanter

    by Eric Ambler ...
    Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger AwardSyria, 1970. Michael Howell has kept his family’s Middle Eastern business enterprises going through a decade of takeovers, war, and revolution, thanks in part to his office manager, Teresa, who is also his mistress. One late night at the office, they discover men working overtime—producing unauthorized bombs for the Palestine Action Force. ... Read more

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  • Charter To Danger

    by Eric Ambler ...
    Vincent Flavius, a millionaire industrialist, charters a cabin cruiser owned by Ross Barnes. Flavius is on the verge of engineering yet another sensational financial coup. Embarkation is set for Cannes, but that is where the trouble begins. Shock after shock follows a strange encounter Barnes has with a girl in a dingy café. Murder and kidnapping follow., along with a dangerous chase which brings ... Read more

    $8.69 USD