110 Ergebnisse - Zeige 101 von 110.

Eric Ambler (1909-98) was one of the most fascinating British writers of the late 1930s. His novels retain a remarkable sense of the dread and terror that filled Europe as world war broke out. Some were made into films (not least Orson Welles' superb version of Journey into Fear), all were bestsellers, inventing a new, more realistic form of spy novel, where the main protagonist is not so much a hero as a victim, pursued by malevolent Fascist ...

Eric Ambler (1909-98) was one of the most fascinating British writers of the late 1930s. His novels retain a remarkable sense of the dread and terror that filled Europe as world war broke out. Some were made into films (not least Orson Welles' superb version of Journey into Fear), all were bestsellers, inventing a new, more realistic form of spy novel, where the main protagonist is not so much a hero as a victim, pursued by malevolent Fascist ...

Eric Ambler (1909-98) was one of the most fascinating British writers of the late 1930s. His novels retain a remarkable sense of the dread and terror that filled Europe as world war broke out. Some were made into films (not least Orson Welles' superb version of Journey into Fear), all were bestsellers, inventing a new, more realistic form of spy novel, where the main protagonist is not so much a hero as a victim, pursued by malevolent Fascist ...

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Avevo bisogno di soldi, e quel tizio pareva averne ... Come diavolo facevo a sapere che genere di persona era Harper?". Arthur Abdel Simpson è un apolide egiziano che si professa inglese, un volgare ladruncolo che vive di espedienti, circuisce i turisti che arrivano ad Atene e ruba i traveller's cheque dalle loro camere d'albergo. Ma Harper, l'uomo adescato appena fuori dall'aeroporto - uno che parlava "da americano" -, non è affatto quello ch...

2009 marks the centenary of Ambler's birth, his thrilling and realistic spy thrillers helped to invent the genre, and they are now published in "Modern Classics" with new introductions.

Keine Beschreibung.

A blanket of fog grounds a flight in Brussels and Dr. Andrew Maclaren finds himself sharing a room with a fellow passenger who by morning disappears in suspicious circumstances, leaving behind an envelope hidden under the carpet. Whilst the contents are seemingly innocent, they lead the young Doctor into nightmarish adventures, culminating in the avoidance of cold-blooded killers in a deserted windmill and in the company of a beautiful redhead.

Ambler's A Coffin for Dimitrios and Journey Into Fear have been hailed as classics of the mystery form, yet his first novel of 1936 has not been available in America until now.