A Coffin for Dimitrios

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CRIME FICTION "Ourgreatestthrillerwriter." -GRAHAM GREENE A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers. At first merely curious to reconstruct the eareer of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery that spans the Balkans. The classic story of an ordinary man seemingly out of his depth, A Coffin fot Dimitrios remains Eric Ambler's most widely acclaimed növel. "Not Le Carré, not Deighton, ttot Ludlum have surpassed the intelligence, authenticity or engrossing storytellling that established A Coffin for Dimitrios as the best of its kind." -T H E T I M E S (LONDON) "Anyone who hasn't read Ambler is in for a real treat." - THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD ERIC AMBLER is often said to have invented the modern suspense növel.... Tovább

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CRIME FICTION "Ourgreatestthrillerwriter." -GRAHAM GREENE A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers. At first merely curious to reconstruct the eareer of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery that spans the Balkans. The classic story of an ordinary man seemingly out of his depth, A Coffin fot Dimitrios remains Eric Ambler's most widely acclaimed növel. "Not Le Carré, not Deighton, ttot Ludlum have surpassed the intelligence, authenticity or engrossing storytellling that established A Coffin for Dimitrios as the best of its kind." -T H E T I M E S (LONDON) "Anyone who hasn't read Ambler is in for a real treat." - THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD ERIC AMBLER is often said to have invented the modern suspense növel. Beginning in 1937, he wrote a series of novels that introduced ordinary protagonists thrust into political intrigue they were ill-prepared to deal with. These novels were toüted for their realism, and Ambler established himself as a thriller writer of depth and originality. In the process he paved the way for such writers as John Le Carré, Len Deighton, and Róbert Ludlum. Vissza