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ISBN: 1842431749
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Price: £7.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 320pp
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Pub. Date: April 2006

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eric Ambler began his writing career in the early 1930s, and quickly established a reputation as a thriller writer of extraordinary depth and originality. He is often credited as the inventor of the modern political thriller and John Le Carre once described him as 'the source on which we all draw.' In a career spanning over sixty years, Eric Ambler wrote nineteen novels and was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for Passage of Arms in 1960. Eric Ambler died in London in October 1998.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

When Arthur Abdel Simpson first spots Harper in the Athens airport, he recognizes him as a tourist unfamiliar with city and in need of a private driver. In other words, the perfect mark for Simpson's brand of entrepreneurship. But Harper proves to be more the spider than the fly when he catches Simpson rifling his wallet for traveller's checks. Soon Simpson finds himself blackmailed into driving a suspicious car across the Turkish border. Then, when he is caught again, this time by the police, he faces a choice: cooperate with the Turks and spy on his erstwhile colleagues or end up in one of Turkey's notorious prisons. The authorities suspect an attempted coup, but Harper and his gang of international jewel thieves have planned something both less sinister and much, much more audacious.

The Light of Day was the basis for Jules Dassin's classic film, Topkapi

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...Our greatest thriller writer..." - Graham Greene,

"...Ambler brings off this comic thriller with consummate zest..." - New York Times

"...Ambler is incapable of writing a dull paragraph..." - The Sunday Times

"...Ambler is, quite simply, the best...." - The New Yorker

"...The foremost thriller writer of our time..." - Time

"...Mr Ambler is a phenomenon ..." - Alfred Hitchcock,

"...The greatest spy novelist of all time..." - San Francisco Chronicle