Click here to read more from Slate’s “Pulp Fiction” week. The opening lines of Eric Ambler’s Epitaph for a Spy are deservedly famous. They pack all the clean and efficient punch of classic ...

Eric Ambler, born 100 years ago next month, mastered as a young man a genre still in its infancy. Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Agent” (1907) and John Buchan’s “The Thirty-Nine Steps ...

In Ian Fleming’s From Russia, with Love (1957), James Bond whiles away a plane journey to Istanbul by reading a thriller: The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler. He doesn’t get very far before ...

The characters in Eric Ambler's pre-war spy novels are adrift in a fractured and uncertain Europe, manipulated by forces they neither understand nor control. The books hold an uncomfortable mirror ...

It is perhaps strange that one of the most influential author of thrillers of the last century, Eric Ambler, should have begun his career with a parody of the genre-his 1936 debut novel The Dark ...

The Mask of Dimitrios (1939) is an espionage novel by Eric Ambler (1909-1998), a recognised master of the genre, and is set in interwar Europe and the western part of West Asia. The novel depicts ...

Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an influential British author of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for ...

The October Man Author of many thrillers, Eric Ambler makes his debut as producer of his own script, and a fine beginning it is, with John Mills in top form and a grand all-round cast. Unlike the ...

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