A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. The world has changed in ways Ambler failed to predict and this one may not be up to his pre-World War II classics, but definitely worth any serious thriller fan's time. Each chapter features writing exercises and suggestions for non-writing activities that will galvanise the imagination and flatten any hurdle. A much-used word, karma is loosely understood as a system of checks and balances in our lives, of good actions and bad deeds, of good thoughts and bad intentions.

In addition to his novels, Ambler wrote a number of screenplays, including A Night to Remember and The Cruel Sea, which won him an Academy Award nomination. This was actually pretty funny Jim Green and I was prepared to just ignore the story just in case it really was bad. I followed her into the kitchen, where she took off her coat, and followed her down the hallway to Frank's study.After Dirty Story, I read all of his books and actually I have a plan of re-reading much of his work.

A further account of the life and misadventures of Arthur Simpson, anti-hero from The Light of Day Arthur Simpson is middle-aged, stateless and desperately in need of a new passport.

There's a reason We Are Legion was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016: Its irresistibly irreverent wit! I was a pretty fair ranch hand and always used to think there wasn't much of anything I couldn't do.

Many people think we only started to be crude in the last 100 years, but when you read things like this you start to realize that the Middle Ages was just as dirty as, if not worse than, us. Eric Ambler wrote classic spy fiction, long before John LeCarre, and his books, although they deal with an era now long gone by, still excel in atmosphere and texture. Twists, turns, comedy, action, intrigue, edge of the seat tension - how can one book have all of this whilst remaining both accessible and intellectually stimulating?The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Beginning in 1936, he wrote a series of novels that introduced ordinary protagonists thrust into political intrigues they were ill prepared to deal with. In this book, his sometimes (anti) hero Arthur Abdel Simpson starts off being a fixer for a pornographic film, continues as a stowaway on a steamer to Africa, tried to lead a mutiny before ending up as a mercenary in one of the continent's emerging nations. When I dropped my arms and stepped back, her face was set in an even expression I couldn't read, and she didn't look at me. Fleeing to Central Africa to save his skin, Arthur Simpson convinces his new employers that he is an accomplished soldier of fortune.