Author: Eric Ambler

Kenton's career as a journalist depends on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European politics and his quick judgement. Where his judge...

Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market in Britain in 1937 is pretty slim. So when his fiancée points out th...

Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. Bu...

It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebo...

'Not Le Carré, not Deighton, not Ludlum have surpassed the intelligence, authenticity or engrossing storytelling that established The Mask of Dimit...

'He took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul, where it all really happened' Frederick F...

'A thriller of the highest quality - ironic, witty, literate, ingenious, understated and unflaggingly suspenseful' The New York Times Book ReviewTh...

'The man who lit the way for us all' Len DeightonAn Indian clerk, Girija Krishnan, sees the opportunity of his lifetime when he stumbles on an aban...

Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesA crime novelist has found the perfect subject - but it may cost him his lifeEnglish writer Char...

'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph1940. An unassuming English engineer ...