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“He’s the thriller writer’s writer in many ways. People like le Carré and Graham Greene heaped a lot of praise on Ambler…The hero of The Mask of Dimitrios is a writer who is just interested in following up stories. He hears about a man called Dimitrios, a notorious criminal figure, who has apparently died. Then he decides—slightly implausibly, it has to be said—that he’ll turn detective and find out what really happened to Dimitrios, and ends up in a chase across Europe.” Read more...
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Patrick Worrall, Thriller and Crime Writer
“Eric Ambler is the grandfather of the serious spy novel…Ambler was the same generation as Graham Greene, and he was, like a lot of educated people at that time, a kind of proto-Marxist, a socialist. He believed that he could use the thriller not only to entertain but also as a political tool, to say something about the state of the nation” Read more...
Charles Cumming, Novelist
