New Releases by Eric Ambler

It wasn’t anyone’s idea of a glamorous first assignment at a white show law firm. George Cary, former WWII bomber pilot and newly minted lawyer, was given the ignoble task of going through the tons of files on the Schneider Johnson case, just to make sure nothing had been overlooked. But, as luck would have it, George did discover something among the false claims and dead-end leads that made this into more than just another missing-heir-to-a vast-fortune case. And what he found would connect a deserter from Napoloeon’s defeated army to a guerrilla fighter in post-war Greece, and lead Cary himself into a dangerous situation where his own survival will depend more on what he learned in the army than anything he learned in law school.

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

Although trained as a playwright, Foster chronicles the trial of Papa Deltchev, a discredited Eastern European leader charged with treason, and learns that truthful reporting behind the Iron Curtain can also be a capital crime.

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 ..."