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Uncommon Danger

Uncommon Danger 1

by Eric Ambler
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/06/2009
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'The greatest spy novelist of all time' - San Francisco Chronicle

Kenton's career as a journalist depends on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European politics and his quick judgement. Where his judgement sometimes fails him, however, is in his personal life. When he travels to Nuremberg to investigate a story about a top-level meeting of Nazi officials, he inadvertently finds himself on a train bound for Austria after a bad night of gambling. Stranded with no money, Kenton jumps at the chance to earn a fee helping a refugee smuggle securities across the border. Yet he soon discovers that the documents he holds have far more than cash value - and that they could cost him his life ...
ISBN:
9780141190341
9780141190341
Category:
Espionage & spy thriller
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-06-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x15mm
Weight:
0.19kg

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Eric Ambler has built up a reputation for creating what is today considered the espionage story 'stereotype': men meeting on dim cobbled street corners, late at night, in a central European locale dressed in suits under belted trenchcoats and fedoras, smoking cigarettes after ever third syllable uttered ... or the rank amateur, caught up in a situation far larger than they are equipped to handle and -- somehow -- managing to hold their own against the professionals.



This novel has elements -- and first-time stereotypes -- like these within its pages. Desmond Kenton is strapped for cash and accepts a small job from a strange man he meets on-board a train. Simple put, he is to deliver a parcel -- which this man will give him -- to the man on the train! Although it sounds ludicrous, the payment certainly does not and Kenton accepts. The problem starts when Kenton tries to deliver the parcel and he soon learns not to trust strangers.



Ambler is a master storyteller and weaves a fast-paced plot with an eye for detail and a desire to mislead. There are times when the reader feels like Kenton and cannot distinguish friend from foe.

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