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The Light of Day

By: Eric Ambler

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He took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul, where it all really happened' Frederick Forsyth Small-time hustler Arthur Abdel Simpson ekes out a living in Athens by robbing gullible tourists. But when an attempted theft backfires, he finds himself out-smarted and blackmailed into driving a highly suspicious car across the border to Istanbul. Then the Turkish secret police get involved, and Simpson becomes embroiled in something far deeper, and more dangerous, than he could imagine. Featuring a heart-stopping jewel heist, this compulsive, morally complex thriller became the basis for the classic film Topkapi.

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Random House

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180206124X

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9781802061246

Passport To Panic

By: Eric Ambler

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Passport To Panic

By: Eric Ambler

Lewis Page needs money urgently. He determines to get it from his brother who lives in a remote region of South America. However, he is in the hands of a notorious man named Benevides. Now held prisoner, Lewis learns what is going on. Fearful and dramatic events, with dangerous and violent intermissions follow.

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House of Stratus

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075512541X

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9780755125418

Here Lies

An Autobiography

By: Eric Ambler

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Here Lies

An Autobiography

By: Eric Ambler

In his Edgar Award–winning autobiography, the “father of the modern crime thriller” reveals the eventful life that inspired his classic works (CrimeReads). Eric Ambler’s Here Lies invites readers inside the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thriller writers. In this work the famously recalcitrant author peels back the layers of experience that affected his life with the same skill he uses to unfold the plots of his novels. Ambler candidly describes his South London childhood; his brief engineering career, which he gave up to work in theater; and his time as an advertising copywriter. He details the publication of his revolutionary spy novels in the 1930s and ’40s, including such early classics as A Coffin for Dimitrios and Journey into Fear. He also tells of his service in the film division of the British War Office during World War II, which allowed him to write his first screenplays; and his postwar renown as the leading writer in the genre on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Open Road Media

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1504089715

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9781504089715

Waiting for Orders

By: Eric Ambler

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Waiting for Orders

By: Eric Ambler

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” (1972), a Central American political thriller; and “The One Who Did for Blagden Cole” (1992), a detective story of sorts about the death of a painter. In four accompanying essays, Ambler shares intriguing anecdotes from different phases of his career, offering unique insight into his writing process. This intriguing and varied collection is a perfect introduction to the life and writing of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thriller writers.

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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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0307950123

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Skytip

By: Eric Ambler

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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, who has a revolver in his pocket. Ackland also comes across other characters who try their hand at blackmail, and a stage that is all set for murder.

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House of Stratus

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0755124073

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9780755124077

Journey Into Fear

By: Eric Ambler

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Journey Into Fear

By: Eric Ambler

A thrilling, intense, and masterfully plotted classic suspense tale from one of the founders of the genre. Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul boîte, 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.

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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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0307949966

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9780307949967

The Ability to Kill

By: Eric Ambler

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The Ability to Kill

By: Eric Ambler

The renowned thriller author turns his attention to true crime—while also taking shots at spies, Hollywood writers, and other subjects—in this collection of essays. Known for timeless thrillers including Epitaph for a Spy and Journey into Fear, Eric Ambler was a keen observer of rogues and rule-breakers of all kinds. In The Ability to Kill, he delves into some of the most intriguing and disturbing criminal cases of the last few hundred years. These include nineteenth-century Edinburgh’s Burke and Hare, who supplied a medical school with ill-gotten cadavers; Victorian London’s infamous Jack the Ripper; the Frenchman Henri Désiré Landru, an early twentieth-century serial killer; and the Californian doctor Bernard Finch and his lover Carole Tregoff, who conspired to murder his wife in 1961. Rounding out the collection are a few pieces on lighter topics such as spies and how to spot them, and novelists in Hollywood. Though his subjects are often grim, Ambler’s deft touch makes this examination of homicide and other matters a pure pleasure to read.

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Open Road Media

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150408974X

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9781504089746

The Levanter

By: Eric Ambler

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The Levanter

By: Eric Ambler

Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award Syria, 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. Worse, this guerrilla terrorist group is not deterred by their discovery—rather, they will enlist Howell and Teresa’s unwilling help in carrying out their plan.

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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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0345802667

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9780345802668

A Kind of Anger

By: Eric Ambler

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A Kind of Anger

By: Eric Ambler

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. No one can find her: Not the police, who want her for murder; not the tabloids, who want her for her story; nor the real killers, who desperately want the papers she spirited away from the scene of the crime. Disgraced reporter Piet Maas stumbles upon Lucia, in hiding in the south of France. There he must decide whether to publish her story—reviving his career but guaranteeing her death—or to join in her perilous extortion scheme, and risk both their lives for the promise of profit.

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0307950034

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Epitaph for a Spy

By: Eric Ambler

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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 the chemist reveals photographs he has not taken, Vadassy finds himself the object of intense suspicion. The result is anything but the rest he had been hoping for.

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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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0307484343

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The Siege of the Villa Lipp

By: Eric Ambler

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The Siege of the Villa Lipp

By: Eric Ambler

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 of an ostensibly legitimate international investment firm, is in fact an expert in tax avoidance and a textbook Able Criminal. Surprisingly, Firman agrees to submit to an interview with Krom and his two colleagues at his secluded villa on the French Riviera. He’s more than a little curious about what they really want from him and confident he can avoid implicating himself. But 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 criminologists will have to band together. The Siege of the Villa Lipp is a classic Eric Ambler tale of suspense in which a man thrust into a high-stakes situation, far outside of his usual expertise, finds himself at the mercy of forces beyond his control.

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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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0307950042

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9780307950048

Background to Danger

By: Eric Ambler

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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 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.

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0307949931

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9780307949936

The Care of Time

By: Eric Ambler

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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, Halliday joins the project—but quickly discovers that Zander requires more than mere literary assistance: He and his daughter are in mortal peril from a Middle Eastern terrorist group. Now tangled in this massive international web of danger, Halliday wonders if it wouldn’t have been far less painful if that bomb had just gone off. The Care of Time, Eric Ambler’s final novel, is a carefully constructed, utterly absorbing story of intrigue and suspense, one of the most acclaimed works of his more than sixty year career.

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0307950093

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9780307950093

Tender To Danger

By: Eric Ambler

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Tender To Danger

By: Eric Ambler

A blanket of fog grounds a flight and Maclaren finds himself sharing a room with a fellow passenger who then disappears, leaving behind an envelope. The contents seem innocent, but they lead to nightmarish adventures, culminating in the avoidance of cold-blooded killers in a deserted windmill in the company of a beautiful redhead.

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House of Stratus

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0755120523

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9780755120529

Judgment on Deltchev

By: Eric Ambler

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Judgment on Deltchev

By: Eric Ambler

Foster’s dramatic skill is well-known in London’s West End theaters. So perhaps it wasn’t so surprising when he was hired by an American newspaper publisher to cover the trial of Yordan Delchev for treason. Accused of membership in the sinister Officer Corps Brotherhood and of masterminding a plot to assassinate his country’s leader, Delchev may in fact be a pawn and his trial all show. But when Foster meets Madame Delchev, the accused’s powerful wife, he suddenly become enmeshed in more life-threatening intrigue than he could have imagined.

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0307049973

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9780307049971

A Coffin for Dimitrios

By: Eric Ambler

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A Coffin for Dimitrios

By: Eric Ambler

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The classic story of an ordinary man seemingly out of his depth, this is Ambler's most widely acclaimed novel, "one of the masterpieces of the genre" (The New York Times Book Review). A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers. At first merely curious to reconstruct the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery that spans the Balkans.

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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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0307949958

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9780307949950

Cause for Alarm

By: Eric Ambler

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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’s death and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas. In the process, Marlow realizes it’s not so simple to just do the job he’s paid to do in fascist Italy on the eve of a world war.

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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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0375726748

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9780375726743

Send No More Roses

By: Eric Ambler

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Send No More Roses

By: Eric Ambler

A battle of criminal minds leads to deadly attacks in the Gold Dagger Award–winning author’s thriller of “cerebral twists and sophisticated wit” (Time). In the parlance of criminology, an “Able Criminal” is one who flies below the radar of crime syndicates and law enforcement alike. Employing no discernable pattern or method, he is virtually uncatchable—but that won’t stop criminologist Frits Krom from trying. Krom believes that Paul Firman, the director of an ostensibly legitimate international investment firm, is a textbook “Able Criminal.” Surprisingly, Firman has agreed to an interview with Krom at his secluded villa on the French Riviera. But amid their barbed exchanges, it becomes clear that the host and his guest are under siege by a third party, one whose motives and violent intentions are unclear. Now, criminal and criminologist will have to join forces in order to survive . . . Send No More Roses was previously published under the title The Siege of the Villa Lapp.

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Open Road Media

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1504089731

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9781504089739

Charter To Danger

By: Eric Ambler

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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 yet another sensational financial coup. Embarkation is set for Cannes, but trouble begins. Shock after shock follows a strange encounter Barnes has with a girl in a dingy café. Murder and kidnapping follow.

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House of Stratus

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0755124022

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9780755124022

The Dark Frontier

A Spy Thriller

By: Eric Ambler

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The Dark Frontier

A Spy Thriller

By: Eric Ambler

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 to Ixania, a small nation-state in Eastern Europe whose growing weapons program threatens to destabilize the region. Only after suffering a blow to the head—which muddles his brain into believing he is Conway Carruthers, international spy—does the mild-mannered physicist agree to visit Ixania. But he quickly recognizes that Groom has a more sinister agenda, and Carruthers is the only man who can stop him.

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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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0345802659

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9780345802651

The Intercom Conspiracy

By: Eric Ambler

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The Intercom Conspiracy

By: Eric Ambler

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 bosses and the sources of the secrets he’s publishing. It was recently purchased by two magnates who are, unbeknownst to the frazzled Carter, chief intelligence officers in two minor NATO countries. Not all of Intercom’s readers are happy with some recent stories, which are surprisingly more truthful and a lot more dangerous than the rumors and fictions that used to fill its pages—and some of those readers will go to any length to keep their secrets safe. As Latimer and Carter get closer to the truth, they realize they’re jeopardizing more than just their careers.

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0307950069

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9780307950062

The Maras Affair

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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. However, he is in love with Anna Maras, who is in danger. Then the President is assassinated and a colleague is found dead. He decides to smuggle Anna out, but is sought by secret police and counter-revolutionaries alike.

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House of Stratus

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0755117646

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The Light of Day

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The Light of Day

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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.

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Ulverscroft

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0854564624

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9780854564620

Journey Into Fear

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Journey Into Fear

By: Eric Ambler

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.

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Ballantine Books

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0345259130

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9780345259134

The Schirmer Inheritance

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The Schirmer Inheritance

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This informative and entertaining book examines the mysteries of time and chronicles the human struggle to measure, utilize, understand, and explain it. The cast of characters in the tale ranges from the primitive "homo erectus" to modern time explorers. of photos.

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