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Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels, who introduced a new realism to the genre. Also working as a screenwriter , Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda.
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__________________________________ With any prolific author, readers are likely to have their own particular favorites, which may not be the same as someone else’s. Your list is likely to be just as good as mine—but here are the ones I recommend. A Coffin for Dimitrios (1939) I’ve worked with many writers of international suspense, and whenever I’v...
__________________________________ All three of the books above were made into movies. A Coffin for Dimitrios, under the original British title of The Mask of Dimitrios, in 1944, starred Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, and Journey Into Fear in 1942 starred Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton. (I know! I can see you all sitting bolt upright now, sear...
__________________________________ Using the pseudonym Eliot Reed, Ambler also collaborated on five books between 1950 and 1958 with a writer named Charles Rodda: Skytip, Tender to Danger, The Maras Affair, Charter to Danger, and Passport to Panic. According to Here Lies, the agreement was supposed to be that Ambler would make up a plot and Rodda w...
__________________________________ “The important thing to know about an assassination or attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.” 1. A Coffin for Dimitrios “Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it.” 1. Dirty Story “Reality is always so obstructive.” 1. Epitaph for a Spy “Propaganda always ...
- Neil Nyren
Aug 22, 2015 · The author is Eric Ambler, whose 1930s novels created a new type of thriller. Born in 1909 into a family of music hall entertainers who ran a puppet show, Ambler seems to have become a writer ...
‘Eric Ambler was a giant, a writer who transformed the old-fashioned detection story into mainstream fiction. Grand English country mansions where posh people were murdered gave way to Ambler’s more dubious and ambivalent political milieu of dark, cobbled alleys in Balkan sea-ports where exotic women and sinister villains plot crimes of international magnitude.
The answer is: there’s a third element of good storytelling—suspense. As Dickens memorably remarked, “Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.”. And where creating suspense was concerned, Ambler was almost without peer. But before an author can create suspense, he or she must be able to make the reader care about the character ...
- Albert Ashforth
Eric Ambler, writer: born London 28 June 1909; OBE 1981; married 1939 Louise Crombie (marriage dissolved 1958), 1958 Joan Harrison (died 1994); died London 23 October 1998.
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4 days ago · Dirty Story is a 1967 novel by Eric Ambler. The book continues the story of Ambler's anti-hero, the half-caste petty criminal Arthur Abdel Simpson who took part in a daring Istanbul robbery in Ambler's earlier The Light of Day.
