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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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UNCOMMON DANGER (US Title: Background to Danger)
It begins with a game of poker-dice that breaks Kenton. So when the stranger on the train offer him 600 marks for a small service, he can't refuse. He knows the man isn't to be trusted and his story is a lie. What of it? He needs the cash.
That small service puts Kenton in the middle of a nasty business. Military secrets have been stolen from the Russians. Kenton finds himself dead center and a perfect sitting target for both sides.
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EPITAPH FOR A SPY
Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian language teacher, decides to break his journey from Nice to Paris at the windswept coastal town of St Gatien. And there his solitary nightmare begins ...
Vadassy, a keen photographer, has made his first stop the village chemist, where he leaves a film to be developed. But instead of the expected picture of lizards, the film shows the locations of top secret military installations. The pictures cannot be released.
And, after a none too gentle arrest by two plainclothes policemen, neither can the man who calls himself Josef Vadassy ...
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CAUSE FOR ALARM
The timing couldn't have been worse. For on the day that Nicholas Marlow proposed marriage to his girlfriend Claire, he lost his job at the Barnton Heath Engineering Company. Two and a half months later, and with still no work in sight, Marlow is forced to accept a post in Milan for Spartacus Machine Tools.
But no sooner has he arrived in Italy than things start to go wrong: his passport goes missing, his mail is being read, and he is convinced he is being followed.
Marlow knows that his predecessor had been killed under the wheels of a car. But now he has been given a mysterious note which claims Ferning was murdered . . .
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THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS (US Title: A Coffin for Dimitrios)
Much later, when he looked back, crime novelist Charles Latimer could see that it was in Istanbul where the true obsession began. It was there, from Colonel Haki, that he first heard the name Dimitrios Makropoulous.
There too that he first glimpsed a dead body, freshly retrieved from the Bosphorus. Stabbed, abandoned, left floating like scum. And with it, somehow, all the pictures of a tortured European past come reeling like a nightmare before his eyes - assassinations, insurgences, the extraordinary double dealings of spies.
Unlike the police, Latimer couldn't abandon Dimitrios. But finding out who he really was might easily cost him his life ...
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JOURNEY INTO FEAR
Secreted in a filthy, cramped cabin on the Italian steamer Sestri Levante, an Englishman begins his terrified flight across wartime Europe.
For Graham, an engineer working for an arms company, the inconvenience which began in a hotel room in old Istanbul has become a nightmare from which he fears he may never wake. His pursuers have already wounded him - surely the next time they will not miss.
But who are they? And where on the long sea passage to Genoa will they make their move?
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JUDGMENT ON DELTCHEV
There was nothing in Foster's career as a playwright that would prepare him for covering a political trial in Eastern Europe. But when he is asked by an American newspaper to report on the trial of Yordan Deltchev, the former leader of the People's Party now facing charges of treason, he cannot resist the challenge. After all, his inexperience will be his strength - allowing him to describe the proceedings with a fresh eye.
But he has badly underestimated the world he is about to enter - a world in which naivety and ignorance are extremely dangerous qualities. And when Foster innocently agrees to deliver a letter for Deltchev's daughter, Katerina, he has no idea of the peril that lies ahead ...
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THE SCHIRMER INHERITANCE
It is just after WW II and the Schirmer estate has a long history, a battery of lawyers, and millions to disperse. It also has a problem: no heir.
It takes a young American attorney to locate one. He succeeds by going back to records of the Napoleonic wars and finds there clues that lead him to Europe. His improbable quarry: a German sergeant in the occupation forces during the war, living as a bandit in the hills of Greece.
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STATE OF SIEGE (UK Title: The Night-Comers)
Set in Southeast Asia, this novel covers 24 critical hours in a military coup d'etat. Fraser, an oil technician on leave and caught up in this explosive whirlwind, tries to extricate himself and pursue his pleasure - namely an Eurasian beauty. But he is hopelessly entangled in the conspiracy and the final outbreak of violence which ends the day.
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PASSAGE OF ARMS
Girija Krishnan has a lifelong dream - to run his own service of English buses in the remote Malayan district where he lives. But buses are expensive- and as a simple clerk to the local rubber estate manager his hopes of fulfilling this ambition look a long way off. That is until he discovers an abandoned terrorist arms cache worththousands of pounds. Now all he needs to turn his dream into reality are partners with the right criminal connections - and a innocent stooge. Enter American holiday maker Greg Nilsen . . .
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THE LIGHT OF DAY
Arthur Simpson was out of his league. Hustling a tourist, a little pimping, a quick hand in a pocket...these Simpson could handle. But an international jewel heist was another story.
Of course, Simpson has a choice. He could always say "No" - and spend the rest of his life rotting in a Turkish jail.
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THE INTERCOM CONSPIRACY
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SEND NO MORE ROSES
In the shadowy areas of international law criminals work hard at figuring loopholes. One such wheelerdealer is Paul Firman. He pursues his own ends in a quiet, unobtrusive way. Why would anyone want to bother about him?
But he is unaware that an obsessive academician, Professor Krom, has stumbled on Firman's activities and is determined to expose him. Two of Krom's colleagues are on hand as witnesses as Krom prepares to confront Firman. But none have bargained with a third party threatening to put a permanent stop to the encounter.
The booby-trapped grounds of the Mediterranean Villa Lipp, a hovering motor cruiser, a sudden attack - Krom is prepared for none of these. But Firman, always cool and self-possessed, responds with force and decision, and in the end pulls Krom's chestnuts out of the fire.
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WAITING FOR ORDERS
This is a collection of the author's shorter works, written in 1929-1940 as Ambler, already a successful suspense novelist, waited for his call to military duty.
Included are "The Army of Shadows," his earliest published short story; "The Intrusions of Dr. Czissar," a collection of detective stories; and "The Blood Bargain," a short story that the author abandoned and then came back to in 1970.
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ELLIOT REED WITH CHARLES RODDA
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