- Cold War, Trials (Treason), Fiction, Fiction, general
Tale of danger in a dictator-dominated Balkan country.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Eric Ambler
- First published
- January 1951
- Pages
- 253
- Publisher
- Pan, Thriller Book Club, Knopf
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- und, English, Italian, French
- ISBN
- 9780006121725
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Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an influential British author of thrillers, in particular spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. He also worked as a screenwriter. Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda. Source: Wikipedia
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