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A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Eric Ambler
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- Collins, Berkley, World Pub. Co.
- Editions
- 65
- Language
- Italian, tur, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780792718208
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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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