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*He tried to think of his wife and found that he could not. The things of which she was a part, his house, his friends, had ceased to exist. He was a man alone, transported into a strange land with death for its frontiers: alone..*
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Eric Ambler
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 252
- Publisher
- Collins, RBA, G K Hall Audio Books
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- German, French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780330372459
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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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