Cause for Alarm

Eric Ambler, John Preston, Mark Mazower , Norman Stone

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English

Penguin
30 June 2009

Fiction & Literature; Espionage & spy thriller

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

Startling paranoid thriller from a time when paranoia was just common sense

Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market in Britain in 1937 is pretty slim. So when his fiancee points out the position with an English armaments manufacturer in Italy, he jumps at the chance. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth about his predecessor's departure and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas. In the process, Marlow realizes that it's not so simple just to do the job he's paid for - not in fascist Italy, on the eve of a world war.

By: Eric Ambler
Introduction by: John Preston, Mark Mazower, Norman Stone, Thomas Jones
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 213g
ISBN: 9780141190327
ISBN 10: 0141190329
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 30 June 2009
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eric Ambler (1909-98) was one of the most fascinating British writers of the late 1930s. His novels retain a remarkable sense of the dread and terror that filled Europe as world war broke out. Some were made into films (not least Orson Welles' superb version of Journey into Fear), all were bestsellers, inventing a new, more realistic form of spy novel, where the main protagonist is not so much a hero as a victim, pursued by malevolent Fascist forces of overwhelming power.

Reviews for Cause for Alarm

'Eric Ambler is a master of his craft' Sunday Telegraph 'If you want to experience the feel of the Continent in the 1930s, you will find few better guides' - Robert Harris