Best Selling Books by Eric Ambler

Lewis Page needs money urgently. He determines to get it from his brother who lives in a remote region of South America. However, he is in the hands of a notorious man named Benevides. Now held prisoner, Lewis learns what is going on. Fearful and dramatic events, with dangerous and violent intermissions follow.

From dust jacket notes: "If you are one of the hundreds of thousands who already know Eric Ambler''s superb ''thrillers'' - he hates the word himself, but there is no other convenient designation for these extraordinary tales of undercover plottings and spies at work - you will certainly want this book. If you have not yet read Ambler, you have been missing the man who is absolutely the best in his field. Because, as Alfred Hitchcock points out in his Introduction, Ambler writes first-rate, suspense-filled, exciting stories about entirely credible, decent, very human fellows in tough situations. They are filled with equally credible pictures of the suave political gangsters, disreputable big-business men, and riffraff of the cheap cafes who made life on the political fringes of continental Europe an unpleasant thing for decent fellows to stumble into during the 1930''s. You can take Eric Ambler, if you wish, on several levels at once; and on every one of them he is tops ..."

Dimitrios a eu presque toutes les polices d''Europe à ses trousses. Aussi est-ce avec satisfaction que le colonel Haki montre à Charles Latimer le cadavre qui repose en sûreté à la morgue d''Istanbul. Latimer, auteur de romans policiers à succès est justement à la recherche d''un sujet. Cela serait fascinant, pense-t-il, de reconstituer la carrière criminelle de Dimitrios. Mais, l''écrivain ne tarde pas à le découvrir, sa tentative pour voir derrière le masque de Dimitrios pourrait être dangereuse, sinon fatale... Traduit de l''anglais par Gabriel Veraldi