The Dark Frontier
A Spy Thriller
(Sprache: Englisch)
Mild-mannered English physicist Henry Barstow encounters a mysterious Mr. Groom, who represents an armaments manufacturer. Together they travel to the tiny Balkan nation of Ixania, whose nuclear weapons program threatens to destabilize the region. Groom and...
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Mild-mannered English physicist Henry Barstow encounters a mysterious Mr. Groom, who represents an armaments manufacturer. Together they travel to the tiny Balkan nation of Ixania, whose nuclear weapons program threatens to destabilize the region. Groom and Barstow, however, have completely separate agendas. Barstow wants to save civilization from the nuclear threat--while Groom simply wants to profit from it.
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The Dark Frontier launched Eric Ambler s five-decade career as one of the most influential thriller writers of our time.England, 1935. Physicist Henry Barstow is on holiday when he meets the mysterious Simon Groom, a representative for an armaments manufacturer. Groom invites the professor to Ixania, a small nation-state in Eastern Europe whose growing weapons program threatens to destabilize the region. Only after suffering a blow to the head which muddles his brain into believing he is Conway Carruthers, international spy does the mild-mannered physicist agree to visit Ixania. But he quickly recognizes that Groom has a more sinister agenda, and Carruthers is the only man who can stop him.
Autoren-Porträt von Eric Ambler
Eric Ambler was born in London in 1909. Before turning to writing full-time, he worked at an engineering firm, and wrote copy for an advertising agency. His first novel was published in 1936. During the course of his career, Ambler was awarded two Gold Daggers, a Silver Dagger, and a Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain, named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers Association of America, and made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. In addition to his novels, Ambler wrote a number of screenplays, including A Night to Remember and The Cruel Sea, which won him an Oscar nomination. Eric Ambler died in 1998.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Eric Ambler
- 2012, 272 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 20,3 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0345802659
- ISBN-13: 9780345802651
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.12.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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