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Der englische Ingenieur Graham hat soeben Gespräche mit hochrangigen türkischen Regierungsmitgliedern beendet, als in seinem Hotelzimmer auf ihn geschossen wird. Panisch flieht er und tritt heimlich die Überfahrt von Istanbul nach Genua auf einem Passagierdampfer an, wo er einer bezaubernden französischen Tänzerin begegnet, einem ungepflegten Geschäftsmann, einem mysteriösen Arzt aus Deutschland und einem kleinen, brutalen Mann, der einen zerk...

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Professor Krom believes Paul Firman, alias Oberholzer, is one of those criminals who keep a low profile and are just too clever to get caught. Firman, rich and somewhat shady, agrees to be interviewed in his villa on the French Riviera. But events take an unexpected turn and perhaps there is even someone else artfully hiding in the deep background?

Michael Howell lives the good life in Syria, just three years after the six day war. He has several highly profitable business interests and an Italian office manager who is also his mistress. However, the discovery that his factories are being used as a base by the Palestine Action Force changes everything-he is in extreme danger with nowhere to run...

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-revolutionaries alike.

Lewis Page needs money urgently and a way out. He determines to get it from his wealthy brother who lives in a remote region of San Mateo in South America. Upon his arrival, however, he finds his brother desperately ill and in the hands of a notorious man named Benevides. Held prisoner, Lewis slowly but surely learns what is going on, whilst Benevides is making newspaper headlines throughout the continent. Fearful and dramatic events, with dan...

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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 the Sûreté Nationale into swift action.

Former bomber pilot George Carey becomes a lawyer and his first job with a Philadelphia firm looks tedious-he is asked to read through a large quantity of files to ensure nothing has been missed in an inheritance case where there is no traceable heir. His discoveries, however, lead to unforeseen adventures and real danger in post war Greece.

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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, huurmoordenaar, spion en vrouwenhandelaar die voor een geheimzinnige bank werkte en wiens lichaam onlangs uit de Bosporus is gevist. Latimer is gefascinee...

Eric Ambler is a master of narrative and an elder statesman of suspense. He virtually created the modern spy story with his ground-breaking series of pre-WWII novels, A Coffin for Dimitrios and Journey into Fear are hailed as classics of the form. Waiting for Orders is the first volume to collect Mr. Ambler's shorter works, most of which date from the period of his greatest literary triumphs.

Gli effetti personali della vittima: una ventiquattrore con dentro solo un panino raffermo e una pistola, un vestito con il marchio di un campo profughi, una stilografica acquistata nel New Jersey. Un noto commediografo inglese che per sfida al proprio mestiere ha accettato di scrivere il resoconto giornalistico di un grande processo politico d'Oltrecortina. Come sempre accade nel mondo delle spie, il disegno che fra delitti, depistaggi e smas...

Robert Halliday è uno scrittore di biografie a pagamento che si trova, per un concorso di circostanze, ad affrontare un nemico particolarmente insidioso. Si tratta di un Emirato del Golfo, noto solo con il suo soprannome - il Principe - che, dal fondo di una miniera inaccessibile, progetta di compiere attentati devastanti sfruttando armi chimiche come il gas nervino. Comparso per la prima volta nel 1981, questo romanzo rispondeva alla necessit...

Per allestire un intrigo internazionale 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. Poi ognuno deve aggiungere, se lo ritiene, un tocco personale, e quello di Ambler consiste da sempre nella capacità di entrare in uno scenario turbolento e indecifrabile tracciandone un disegno desti...

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*Also appeared in March Buyer's Notes* A classic thriller from the 1960s, reissued for contemporary readers. Piet Maas, a journalist, must decide whether to pursue a scoop or net a fortune.