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Alarms and Epitaphs The Art of Eric Ambler

Alarms and Epitaphs The Art of Eric Ambler
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  • ISBN-13: 9780879726027
  • ISBN: 0879726024
  • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

AUTHOR

Wolfe, Peter

SUMMARY

Eric Ambler's novelistic career falls into two halves. In the first half belong the works he published between 19351940. These include the highly acclaimedEpitaph for a Spy(1938) andThe Mask of Dimitrios(1939), both of which were made into successful films in 1944. The intrigue books of this period unfold in interwar Europe, a bitten-up, anxious place reeling between the extremes of fascism and Soviet communism. To reflect changes in the postwar world, Ambler set his later books in third-world countries where first-world financing collides with unstable, often revolutionary, politics-all within the shadow of large multinational corporations. These powerful firms with connections in high places take the same liberties as big governments have always done in works likeDr. Frigo(1974), the only Ambler book set in Latin America, and the best-sellingThe Care of Time(1981).Wolfe, Peter is the author of 'Alarms and Epitaphs The Art of Eric Ambler' with ISBN 9780879726027 and ISBN 0879726024.

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