Eric Ambler

Cause for Alarm

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married. So when his fiancee 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.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Modern Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 132mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 212g
• ISBN-13: 9780141190327
• ISBN-10: 0141190329
• Artikelnr.: 25848406

Autorenporträt

Eric Ambler (1909-98) was born in London to parents who were part-time entertainers. He studied engineering but left college without taking a degree and became a copywriter in the advertising industry. Between 1937 and 1940, he published his great anti-fascist spy thrillers: Uncommon Danger, Epitaph for a Spy, Cause for Alarm, The Mask of Dimitrios, and Journey into Fear. In 1940, he joined the Royal Artillery and was later transferred to the army film unit. After the war he worked as a screenwriter in England and Hollywood and married his second wife, a leading Hollywood producer. Ambler's post-war novels include Passage of Arms, The Light of Day and A Kind of Anger, and his profound influence on the genre has been acknowledged by writers including Graham Greene, Ian Fleming and John le Carré.