Eric Ambler

Author profile

born

June 28, 1909 in London, The United Kingdom

died

October 22, 1998

gender

male

website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Ambler

genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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Eric Ambler began his writing career in the early 1930s, and quickly established a reputation as a thriller writer of extraordinary depth and originality. He is often credited as the inventor of the modern political thriller and John Le Carre once described him as 'the source on which we all draw.'

Ambler began his working life at an engineering firm, then as a copywriter at an advertising agency, while in his spare time he worked on his ambition to become a playwright. His first novel was published in 1936 and as his reputation as a novelist grew he turned to writing full time. During the war he was seconded to the Army Film Unit, where he wrote, among other projects, The Way Ahead with Peter Ustinov.

He moved to Hollywood in 1957 and durin...more

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Books by Eric Ambler

Average rating: 3.80 · 3,050 ratings · 321 reviews · 61 distinct works

	A Coffin for Dimitrios 3.91 avg rating — 1,024 ratings — published 1939 — 44 editions	My rating:
	Journey Into Fear 3.85 avg rating — 401 ratings — published 1977 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Epitaph for a Spy 3.79 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 1938 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Cause for Alarm 3.68 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 1938 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Light of Day 3.69 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1962 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Background to Danger 3.75 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1937 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Passage of Arms 3.86 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1959 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Schirmer Inheritance 3.57 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1953 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Judgment on Deltchev 3.85 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1977 — 13 editions	My rating:
	State of Siege 3.77 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1956 — 15 editions	My rating:

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Series by Eric Ambler

Charles Latimer (2 books)
by Eric Ambler

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Arthur Simpson (2 books)
by Eric Ambler

3.69 avg rating — 177 ratings

Quotes by Eric Ambler

“Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it”
― Eric Ambler, Dirty Story

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“Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.”
― Eric Ambler, A Coffin for Dimitrios

tags: chance , fortune

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“A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?”
― Eric Ambler, A Coffin for Dimitrios

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