Eric Ambler Libri

Un avvocato di Filadelfia, George Carey, è chiamato a ricercare il legittimo erede di una vistosa fortuna, legittimo erede che, dagli atti ufficiali, risulta disperso durante la ritirata tedesca di Salonicco. Tenacemente Carey segue le tracce del suo cliente fantasma attraverso paesi ostili e misteriosi, un pittoresco labirinto di colpi di scena e di incontri drammatici. Al suo fianco una giovane interprete, avviata a diventare, di giorno in giorno, qualcosa di più importante di una brava traduttrice. Un suggestivo esempio di quella narrativa avventurosa che concilia perfettamente, e con sano equilibrio, invenzione e verosimiglianza.

Se in una affamata repubblica balcanica un genio offuscato dal più selvaggio nazionalismo mette a punto un ordigno capace di sovvertire l’ordine mondiale non c’è da stare allegri. Tanto più che l’Ixania è una democrazia da burla, dominata in realtà dal principe Ladislaus e da sua sorella, la bellissima e letale contessa Schverzinski, dal volto simile a un dipinto di scuola umbra. Come se non bastasse, il Paese è sull’orlo della rivoluzione e alla macchina infernale inventata dal professor Kassen si interessa anche una delle più potenti industrie di armamenti. Toccherà al candido e goffo professor Barstow, improvvisatosi per l’occasione spietata spia internazionale, e a Casey, l’inviato del «Tribune» che gli fa da spalla, venire a capo di un diabolico intrigo dove ciascuna delle forze in campo, dal Partito dei Giovani Contadini alla Società del Guanto Rosso, rappresenta un’oscura minaccia. Romanzo d’esordio di Ambler, La frontiera proibita è già, al pari della «bomba Kassen», una infernale macchina (narrativa), e una irresistibile spy-story, scoppiettante e beffarda: del mese trascorso da super-eroe in Ixania e del suo folle amore per Magda Schverzinski il professor Barstow, trovato svenuto sul Basilea-Parigi, non conserverà alcun ricordo.

Fleeing to Central Africa to save his skin, Arthur Simpson convinces his new employers that he is an accomplished soldier of fortune. That gets him mixed up with a multinational corporation who is vying for mineral rights in a hotly contested border area where no one trusts no one.

Charles Latimer is back. Thirty years after Eric Ambler introduced the world to unlikely hero, academic and novelist Charles Latimer in The Mask of Dimitrios, Latimer returns in The Intercom Conspiracy. Now a bestselling author promoting a new book, Latimer steps in to help Theodore Carter, the hapless, hard-drinking editor of international political newspaper Intercom. A small paper suddenly publishing big secrets, Intercom has recently been purchased and the once frivolous publication is causing a stir. Carter suspects something is amiss and sets about investigating his mysterious new bosses and the sources of the suddenly serious secrets he’s publishing. As Latimer and Carter get closer to the truth, they realise they’re jeopardising more than just their careers.

Lucia Bernardi was last seen driving a car at top speed away from a villa - and the body of her murdered Iraqi lover - in Switzerland. Now disgraced journalist Piet Maas has been sent to find her in the south of France. When he does, he must decide whether to get the scoop of his lifetime - or to plunge into ever more dangerous waters with her. Featuring a cast of fraudsters, hitmen and Kurdish revolutionaries, A Kind of Anger is a classic thriller from the father of the genre.

Kenton's career as a journalist depended on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European politics, and his quick judgment. Where his judgment sometimes failed him was in his personal life. When he finds himself on a train bound for Austria with insufficient funds after a bad night of gambling, he jumps at the chance to earn a fee to help a refugee smuggle securities across the border. He soon discovers that the documents he holds have a more than monetary value, and that European politics has more twists and turns than the most convoluted newspaper account. schovat popis

Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be developed at a local chemists, he suddenly finds himself mistaken for a Gestapo agent and a charge of espionage is levelled at him. To prove himself innocent to the French police, he must discover which one of his fellow guests at his pension is the real spy. As he desperately tries to uncover the true culprit�s identity, Vadassy must risk his job, his safety and everything he holds dear.

Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul b™ite, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with plans for a Turkish defense system, the seductive cabaret dancer and her manager husband, and a number of surprising allies. Thrilling, intense, and masterfully plotted, Journey Into Fear is a classic suspense tale from one of the founders of the genre.