
The Light of Day
Author: Eric Ambler
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Unabridged: 7 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 11/14/2012
Categories: Fiction, Action & Adventure

Author: Eric Ambler
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Unabridged: 7 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 11/14/2012
Categories: Fiction, Action & Adventure
Eric Ambler (1909–1998) graduated from London University and established himself as a writer with five classic novels of intrigue published between 1937 and 1940: Background to Danger, Epitaph for a Spy, Cause for Alarm, A Coffin for Dimitrios, and Journey into Fear. During World War II he served in the British Army and was discharged as a lieutenant colonel. He wrote and produced a number of motion pictures and was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay of Nicholas Monsarrat’s The Cruel Sea. He then returned to writing novels, many of which became New York Times bestsellers. He is widely considered the father of spy-espionage thrillers.
If you follow my reviews then you know that I am a fan of Eric Ambler and it pains me to say that this book falls flat for me. It follows the usual Ambler plot of an "every man" who is thrust into the path of danger, which usually produces a fascinating story, but here things go off the rail for me.......more
I have read 7 or 8 of Eric Ambler’s novels, and they all follow the same basic formula: a rather naïve amateur protagonist inadvertently gets mixed up with a gang of professional crooks or foreign agents, and somehow – with the odds stacked against him – has to extricate himself. Arthur, a middle-age......more
A thoroughly amusing heist/espionage tale featuring Arthur Simpson, a seemingly naïve scoundrel, petty swindler and coward who is a perennial nuisance to all those he comes into contact with. Ambler pulls off a superb balancing act between farce and suspenseful crime thriller, no easy feat.......more
(questa parte potete anche saltarla) Storia in italiano è anche sinonimo di relazione. Ecco: io a volte ho delle storie con libri, alcune delle nascono proprio dal momento in cui il mio sguardo si posa sulla copertina. Il primo incontro è stato così: io che faccio una sosta nei sotterranei dell’imp......more