The unlikely hero of The Mask of Dimitrios returns in this “intriguing affair to remember” from the two-time Gold Dagger Award–winning author (Kirkus Revi

Thirty years after Eric Ambler introduced the world to his unlikely hero, the academic and novelist Charles Latimer, in A Coffin for Dimitrios, Latimer returns

The author has chosen seventeen of the most important or representative British spy novelists to write about. He presents some basic literary analysis and criti

Examines both the differences and the continuity between the early and late work of American thriller writer Ambler, and considers the five novels, published un

Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series A crime novelist has found the perfect subject - but it may cost him his life English writer Charles Latimer