The Dark Frontier
Author | : Eric Ambler |
Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780307950024 |
ISBN-13 | : 0307950026 |
Rating | : 4/5 (026 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Dark Frontier written by Eric Ambler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Frontier launched Eric Ambler’s five-decade career as one of the most influential thriller writers of our time. England, 1935. Physicist Henry Barstow is on holiday when he meets the mysterious Simon Groom, a representative for an armaments manufacturer. Groom invites the professor to Ixania, a small nation-state in Eastern Europe whose growing weapons program threatens to destabilize the region. Only after suffering a blow to the head—which muddles his brain into believing he is Conway Carruthers, international spy—does the mild-mannered physicist agree to visit Ixania. But he quickly recognizes that Groom has a more sinister agenda, and Carruthers is the only man who can stop him.