{"product_id":"here-lies-book-eric-ambler-9781912194360","title":"Here Lies","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinally we hear from the master himself. The writer whom Graham Greene called unquestionably our best thriller writer and who John le Carre once called the source on which we all draw. If his 1985 autobiography, the self-deprecatingly entitled \u003ci\u003eHere Lies Eric Ambler, \u003c\/i\u003e is to be believed, his intention as a young man was to be a playwright. Ambler found a novel way (forgive the pun) to introduce his first full length work, by giving his girlfriend a bound page proof in a cinema on King's Road, Chelsea, just before the lights went down. So became \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e (1936) and thereafter some of the greatest thrillers of the 20th century, such as \u003ci\u003eEpitaph for a Spy, Cause for Alarm, The Mask of Dimitrios\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJourney into Fear, \u003c\/i\u003e a good number of which were reduced to film and other media (before such things were called media). Not long after finishing \u003ci\u003eJourney into Fear\u003c\/i\u003e Ambler stopped writing and joined the army, later working for Ealing Studios and J. Arthur Rank, where he adapted Nicholas Montserrat's \u003ci\u003eThe Cruel Sea\u003c\/i\u003e for film before decamping for fame and relative fortune in Hollywood. In 1958 he married Joan Harrison, Alfred Hitchcock's long time assistant and collaborator. Hitchcock even organised their wedding. Get inside the mind and life of one of the inventors and indeed archetypes of the thriller genre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50503991296273,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50503991394577,"sku":"GOR012621680","price":14.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53345304674577,"sku":"GOR011453141","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1912194368.jpg?v=1750803799","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/here-lies-book-eric-ambler-9781912194360","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}