Eric Ambler

Uncommon Danger

Mitarbeit: Jones, Thomas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kenton a journalist travels to Nuremberg to investigate a top-level meeting, but he boards a train bound for Austria after a bad night of gambling. Stranded with no money, he decides to earn a fee helping a refugee smuggle securities. He soon discovers that the documents he holds have far more than cash value and that they could cost him his life.

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Produktdetails

• Penguin Modern Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 131mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 202g
• ISBN-13: 9780141190341
• ISBN-10: 0141190345
• Artikelnr.: 25642138

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.