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  • Published: 30 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141190341
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99

Uncommon Danger




'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 ...

  • Published: 30 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141190341
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Eric Ambler

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.

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