Ambler, Eric (Vol. 9) - Ambler, Eric 1909–
Ambler, Eric 1909–
Ambler is an English novelist and screenwriter noted for his iconoclastic novels of suspense. "The modern spy story," write Chris Steinbrunner and Otto Penzler, "is largely a product of Ambler's groundbreaking series of pre-World War II novels." Critics credit Ambler with the ability to vary his style with the times without losing his distinctive stamp; Melvin Maddocks calls him "one of those writers so good at his specialty that he has only his younger self … to compete against." (See also CLC, Vols. 4, 6, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.)
The Intercom Conspiracy … condenses and concentrates many of the thematic obsessions characteristic of [Ambler's] earlier books and, at the same time, adds another portrait to the gallery he has been painting for more than thirty years. It is a gallery that, viewed all of a piece, in turn epitomizes a world; and Ambler's world—far from being the...
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