Eric Ambler: Uncommon Danger
Uncommon Danger
Buch
- Penguin Books Ltd, 05/2009
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780141190341
- Bestellnummer: 2137434
- Umfang: 256 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 2009
- Gewicht: 200 g
- Maße: 199 x 131 mm
- Stärke: 20 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.5.2009
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Kurzbeschreibung
Kenton's career as a journalist depends on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European politics and his quick judgement. Where his judgement sometimes fails him, however, is in his personal life. When he travels to Nuremberg to investigate a story about a top-level meeting of Nazi officials, he inadvertently finds himself on a train bound for Austria after a bad night of gambling. Stranded with no money, Kenton jumps at the chance to earn a fee helping a refugee smuggle securities across the border. Yet he soon discovers that the documents he holds have far more than cash value - and that they could cost him his life!Klappentext
Eric Ambler (1909-98) was one of the most fascinating British writers of the late 1930s. His novels retain a remarkable sense of the dread and terror that filled Europe as world war broke out. Some were made into films (not least Orson Welles' superb version of Journey into Fear), all were bestsellers, inventing a new, more realistic form of spy novel, where the main protagonist is not so much a hero as a victim, pursued by malevolent Fascist forces of overwhelming power. These are paranoid stories, but written at a time when paranoia was disturbingly close to common sense.Biografie
Eric Ambler, geboren 1909 als Sohn eines Schauspieler- und Entertainerpaars in London, studierte Maschinenbau und arbeitete zunächst als Werbetexter. In den dreißiger Jahren schrieb er seine ersten Agentenromane. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg war er Artillerist, dann Produktionsleiter von Lehrfilmen in der britischen Armee; nach 1946 arbeitete er u.a. als Drehbuchautor und Produzent und gewann für drei seiner Bücher den Edgar-Allan-Poe-Preis. Er starb 1998 in London. Eric Ambler
Uncommon Danger
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