Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler
Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married. So when his fiancee points out the position with an English armaments manufacturer in Italy, he jumps at the chance. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth about his predecessor's departure and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas.-
Of Mice and Men
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The Great Gatsby
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Giovanni's Room
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An Inspector Calls and Other Plays
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In Cold Blood
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A Month in the Country
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East of Eden
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Animal Farm
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Alone in Berlin
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Man in the High Castle
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On the Road
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Brideshead Revisited
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Lolita
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The Haunting of Hill House
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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A Clockwork Orange
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Orientalism
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The Crucible
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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Ways of Seeing
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Tokyo Express
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Death of a Salesman
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The Wretched of the Earth
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Things Fall Apart
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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The Lonely Londoners
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Dubliners
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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The Night Manager
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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Caliban and the Witch
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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Homage to Catalonia
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The Go-between
'Eric Ambler is a master of his craft' Sunday Telegraph 'If you want to experience the feel of the Continent in the 1930s, you will find few better guides' - Robert Harris
Eric Ambler (1909-98) was born in London to parents who were part-time entertainers. He studied engineering but left college without taking a degree and became a copywriter in the advertising industry. Between 1937 and 1940, he published his great anti-fascist spy thrillers: Uncommon Danger, Epitaph for a Spy, Cause for Alarm, The Mask of Dimitrios, and Journey into Fear. In 1940, he joined the Royal Artillery and was later transferred to the army film unit. After the war he worked as a screenwriter in England and Hollywood and married his second wife, a leading Hollywood producer. Ambler's post-war novels include Passage of Arms, The Light of Day and A Kind of Anger, and his profound influence on the genre has been acknowledged by writers including Graham Greene, Ian Fleming and John le Carré. John Preston is a former Arts Editor of the Evening Standard and the Sunday Telegraph. For ten years he was the Sunday Telegraph's television critic and one of its chief feature writers. His novel, The Dig, based on the 1939 archaeological excavation at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, has been filmed starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James. His first nonfiction book, A Very English Scandal, was published to great acclaim in 2016 and turned into BAFTA-winning BBC drama series. His latest book Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell was published to great acclaim in February 2021. It has been shortlisted for both the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Costa Biography Prize and is being adapted for television by Working Title productions.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141190327 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141190329 |
| Title | Cause for Alarm |
| Author | Eric Ambler |
| Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-05-28 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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