Product Description

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT HARRIS

Much later, when he looked back, crime novelist Charles Latimer could see that it was in Istanbul where the true obsession began. It was there, from Colonel Haki, that he first heard the name Dimitrios Makropoulous.

There too that he first glimpsed a dead body, freshly retrieved from the Bosphorus. Stabbed, abandoned, left floating like scum. And with it, somehow, all the pictures of a tortured European past come reeling like a nightmare before his eyes - assassinations, insurgences, the extraordinary double dealings of spies.

Unlike the police, Latimer couldn't abandon Dimitrios. But finding out who he really was might easily cost him his life . . .

The Mask of Dimitrios, suspense master Eric Ambler's finest novel, is the first and best of the generation of incisive political thrillers from the War years.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92340 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-09
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

The Times
'Not Le Carre, not Deighton, not Ludlum have surpassed the intelligence, authenticity or engrossing storytelling that established The Mask of Dimitrios as the best of its kind.'

Synopsis
From the author of JOURNEY INTO FEAR and THE STORY SO FAR, a crime title which tells of the violent death of Dimitrios Makropoulos, a dirty villain, who was involved in murder, espionage and drugs. Charles Latimer must discover answers which lie in the most secret corners of a dangerous world.