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A tedious task leads to a mystery in this thriller from Master of Spy Fiction Eric Ambler.
It wasn’t anyone’s idea of a glamorous first assignment at a white show law firm.
George Cary, former WWII bomber pilot and newly minted lawyer, is given the ignoble task of going through the tons of files on the Schneider Johnson case, just to make sure nothing had been overlooked. As luck would have it, though, George does discover something among the false claims and dead-end leads that made this into more than just another missing-heir-to-a vast-fortune case.
What he finds will connect a deserter from Napoloeon’s defeated army to a guerrilla fighter in post-war Greece, and lead Cary himself into a dangerous situation where his own survival will depend more on what he learned in the army than anything he learned in law school…
PRAISE FOR THE SCHIRMER INHERITANCE
‘A masterful contribution to the literature of international dirty work.’ – The New Yorker
‘As ingenious a tale as any Mr. Ambler has told. It is a wonderfully ingenious tale.’ – Herald Tribune
‘Thriller readers should hail this yarn with joy.’ – San Francisco Chronicle
‘Eric Ambler’s books show an unusual flair for creating alarm, if not despondency, in the gentle reader.’ – The New York Times Book Review
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Eric Ambler began his writing career in the early 1930s, and quickly established a reputation as a thriller writer of extraordinary depth and originality. He is often credited as the inventor of the modern political thriller and John Le Carre once described him as 'the source on which we all draw.'
Ambler began his working life at an engineering firm, then as a copywriter at an advertising agency, while in his spare time he worked on his ambition to become a playwright. His first novel was published in 1936 and as his reputation as a novelist grew he turned to writing full time. During the war he was seconded to the Army Film Unit, where he wrote, among other projects, The Way Ahead with Peter Ustinov. He moved to Hollywood in 1957 and during his eleven years there scripted some memorable films, including A Night to Remember and The Cruel Sea, which won him an Oscar nomination.
In a career spanning over sixty years, Eric Ambler wrote nineteen novels and was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for Passage of Arms in 1959. He was married to Joan Harrison, who wrote or co-wrote many of Alfred Hitchcock's screenplays - in fact Hitchcock organized their wedding. Eric Ambler died in London in October 1998.
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- VerlagIpso Books
- Erscheinungsdatum2016
- ISBN 10 0993278434
- ISBN 13 9780993278433
- EinbandTapa blanda
- SpracheEnglisch
- Anzahl der Seiten254
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