ASIN: B01MAWQAEO
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 356
‘Authoritative and highly readable, Peter Lewis' recently revised literary biography of Eric Ambler remains the definitive guide to the work of one of Britain's most influential thriller writers’ - Martin Edwards, author of The Golden Age of MurderEric Ambler is widely regarded as one of the most important thriller writers of the twentieth century. In the 1930s he set out to give respectability to a genre that he rightly recognised needed to be rescued from its status as pulp fiction. With six landmark novels published between 1936 and 1940, Ambler laid the foundations for the post-war generation of writers who raised the spy novel to a form of literature. Like Graham Greene, Ambler used the ingredients of a thriller to create a series of novels that investigated many aspects of modern life, from totalitarian political regimes to white-collar crime. And with those books, he transformed ...
