Bøger af Eric Ambler

Kenton's career as a journalist depends on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European politics and his quick judgement. Where his judgement sometimes fails him, however, is in his personal life. When he travels to Nuremberg to investigate a story about a top-level meeting of Nazi officials, he inadvertently finds himself on a train bound for Austria after a bad night of gambling. Stranded with no money, Kenton jumps at the chance to earn a fee helping a refugee smuggle securities across the border. Yet he soon discovers that the documents he holds have far more than cash value - and that they could cost him his life ...

Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market in Britain in 1937 is pretty slim. So when his fianc e points out the position with an English armaments manufacturer in Italy, he jumps at the chance. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth about his predecessor's departure and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas. In the process, Marlow realizes that it's not so simple just to do the job he's paid for - not in fascist Italy, on the eve of a world war.

Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be developed at a local chemists, he suddenly finds himself mistaken for a Gestapo agent and a charge of espionage is levelled at him. To prove himself innocent to the French police, he must discover which one of his fellow guests at his pension is the real spy. As he desperately tries to uncover the true culprit's identity, Vadassy must risk his job, his safety and everything he holds dear.

It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger steamer from Istanbul. As he journeys home - alongside, among others, an entrancing French dancer, an unkempt trader, a mysterious German doctor and a small, brutal man in a crumpled suit - he enters a nightmarish world where friend and foe are indistinguishable. Graham can try to run, but he may not be able to hide for much longer ...

I nattoget på vej til den østrigske by Linz påtager den engelske journalist Kenton sig en tilsyneladende harmløs smugleropgave, der kan skaffe ham nogle let tjente penge. Men opgaven for mr. Sachs viser sig at være mere indviklet, end Kenton havde forestillet sig. Pludselig er han indblandet i et livsfarligt spil, der fører ham til det halvfascistiske Rumænien, hvor engelske og tyske interesser kæmper om landets rige oliereserver. Kenton kommer ad den vej i selskab med professionelle spioner, kyniske lejemordere og politiske fribyttere, som er villige til at gøre hvad som helst for penge eller en idé.Bo Tao Michaëlis i Verdens bedste krimier: ”Eric Amblers betydning for den intelligente, politiske underholdningsroman kan ikke overvurderes. Hans elever hedder Graham Greene og Geoffrey Household og i nyere tid amerikanerne Alan Furst, Robert Harris og vores egen Leif Davidsen.”

Michael Howell lever det gode liv i Syrien tre år efter seksdageskrigen.Han har mange gode forretninger kørende og en italiensk kontorchef, som også er hans elskerinde. Da han opdager, at hans tørelementfabrikker bliver brugt til våbenproduktion for den palæstinensiske kampgruppe, PAF, vender bøtten pludselig. Han er i fare, uanset hvad han vælger at gøre.Graham Greene har udtalt, at Eric Ambler er den bedste thrillerforfatter,der findes.”Mange senere spionforfattere som Graham Greene, Robert Harris og vores egen Leif Davidsen har tydeligvis fundet stor inspiration hos Eric Ambler.”– Kultur-cafeenEric Ambler modtog Gold Dagger Award for Manden fra Levanten i 1972.