From Istanbul to Europe’s heart of darkness
William Armstrong - william.armstrong@hdn.com.tr
The late English novelist Eric Ambler has had a renaissance in recent years. The six thrillers he wrote from 1936 to 1940 were runaway successes and revolutionized the genre, but Ambler then fell off the radar. Today, after years out of print, his unsettling work once again chimes with the spirit of the age, and Penguin recently decided to republish six of his novels as Modern Classics.
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