The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler - ISBN: 9780141190334
Paperback
An author’s obsession with a criminal past becomes dangerously real.

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  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    30 June 2009

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Summary

‘Our greatest thriller writer’ Graham Greene

English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when he makes the acquaintance of Turkish police inspector Colonel Haki. It is from him that he first hears of the mysterious Dimitrios - an infamous master criminal, long wanted by the law, whose body has just been fished out of the Bosphorus. Fascinated by the story, Latimer decides to retrace Dimitrios’ steps across Europe to gather material for a new book. But, as he gradu…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141190334
ISBN-10:0141190337
Author:Eric Ambler, Mark Mazower
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:30 June 2009
Weight:186g
Dimensions:197mm x 128mm x 16mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
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Critics Review

‘Not Le Carr

Not Le Carré, not Deighton, not Ludlum have surpassed the intelligence, authenticity or engrossing storytelling that established The Mask of Dimitrios as the best of its kind. * The Times *A gripping thriller … still fresh as new. * Guardian *A startling, elegant masterpiece of espionage fiction. * Wall Street Journal *

About The Author

Eric Ambler

Mark Mazower is Ira D. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University where he directs the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. He is the author of Governing the World, Hitler’s Empire and The Balkans- A Short History, winner of the Wolfson Prize for History, among other books.

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