The Dark Frontier, Paperback
Descriere
The Dark Frontier launched Eric Ambler s five-decade career as one of the most influential thriller writers of our time. England, 1935. Physicist Henry Barstow is on holiday when he meets the mysterious Simon Groom, a representative for an armaments manufacturer. Groom invites the professor to Ixania, a small nation-state in Eastern Europe whose growing weapons program threatens to destabilize the region. Only after suffering a blow to the head which muddles his brain into believing he is Conway Carruthers, international spy does the mild-mannered physicist agree to visit Ixania. But he quickly recognizes that Groom has a more sinister agenda, and Carruthers is the only man who can stop him.""
Despre autor
Eric Clifford Ambler, OBE, a fost un autor britanic de thrillere, în special de romane spionaj. Activând și ca scenarist, Ambler a folosit pseudonimul Eliot Reed pentru cărțile scrise împreună cu Charles Rodda. Ambler este remarcabil pentru romanul său Ziua luminoasă (1962), care a câștigat Premiul Edgar Allan Poe pentru cel mai bun roman în 1964 și a fost adaptat în film sub titlul Topkapi (1964).