Eric Ambler

eBook, ePUB

The Schirmer Inheritance (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

A lawyer unearths deadly secrets reaching back to the Napoleonic era in this "masterful contribution to the literature of international dirty work" ( The New Yorker). Former WWII bomber pilot George Cary has a promising postwar career ahead of him as a newly minted lawyer, though his first assignment at his prestigious Philadelphia law firm isn't exactly glamorous. He's been tasked with going through the copious, dusty files on the Schneider Johnson case, in which the search for an heir to a family fortune yielded no results. When Cary discovers something despite the dead ends and false claims, it leads him to Europe where he begins to unravel a twisting, secret history. Soon, Cary is drawing connections between a deserter from Napoleon's defeated army to a guerrilla fighter in post-war Greece. Determined to pursue the whole truth, Cary finds himself in a dangerous situation where survival depends more on his military experience than anything he learned in law school.

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Autor

Eric Ambler began his writing career in the early 1930s and quickly established a reputation as a thriller writer of extraordinary depth and originality. He is often credited as the inventor of the modern political thriller and John Le Carré once described him as "the source on which we all draw." Ambler began his working life at an engineering firm and then as a copywriter at an advertising agency. In his spare time, he worked toward his dream of becoming a playwright. His first novel was published in 1936, he turned to writing full-time. During the war, he was seconded to the Army Film Unit where he wrote the screenplay for The Way Ahead with Peter Ustinov, among others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Distribution
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504089791
• Artikelnr.: 76007534