Epitaph For a Spy Author:Eric Ambler Pages on this book are very yellow, but still very readable. — The World of Eric Ambler. "Alarm, disquiet, treacherous calm...Things are not what they seem. This ordinary little man-what desperate secrets may he have under his derby hat? Will that innocent facade suddenly unmask a bettery of menace? Whose side is X really on? What side am I o... more »n?
We are in the twilit, illusionist world of espionage and counter-espionage, where such questions have a nightmare importance, a heart-searching urgency. It is a world to whichwe uneasily respond; for it is, after all, the world of our own time."« less