Последние издания книг Эрика Эмблера

Small-time hustler Arthur Abdel Simpson ekes out a living in Athens by robbing gullible tourists. But when an attempted theft backfires, he finds himself out-smarted and blackmailed into driving a highly suspicious car across the border to Istanbul. Then the Turkish secret police get involved, and Simpson becomes embroiled in something far deeper, and more dangerous, than he could imagine. Featuring a heart-stopping jewel heist, this compulsive, morally complex thriller became the basis for the classic film Topkapi.

The last time anyone saw Lucia Bernardi, she was driving at top speed away from a Swiss villa - leaving the body of her murdered Iraqi lover behind. Now she has vanished, along with a potentially explosive set of papers, and disgraced journalist Piet Maas has been sent to follow her trail to the South of France. But finding her is just the start of his problems. Soon, amid a cast of con men, secret agents and revolutionaries, he must decide whether to land the scoop of his lifetime - or follow Lucia into ever more dangerous waters.

1940. An unassuming English engineer has travelled to Turkey on business. And somebody wants him dead.
It all began when Graham was taken to a nightclub in Istanbul and noticed a man in a crumpled suit, watching him. Then he narrowly missed being killed by gunfire on returning to his hotel room. Now, terrified, he has been helped to escape in secret on a passenger steamer home. But although Graham may try to run, he cannot hide from his pursuers forever, and soon he is caught up in a nightmare beyond his control.

An Indian clerk, Girija Krishnan, sees the opportunity of his lifetime when he stumbles on an abandoned cache of arms hidden in the Malayan jungle. If he can sell the weapons, he will be able to achieve his lifelong dream of owning a bus company - although the penalty for gun-running is death. Soon his decision becomes the catalyst for a chain of events involving an entrepreneurial Chinese family, a corrupt Colonel and, finally, a naive couple of American tourists who find themselves horribly out of their depth.

Почему романы Эрика Эмблера так популярны?
Почему они неподвластны времени и даже сейчас, спустя более полувека после написания, читаются с неослабевающим интересом?
Дело не столько в стиле этих произведений, сколько в необычности их героев. Они - не "Джеймсы Бонды", не супермены, не супершпионы и зачастую даже не профессиональные разведчики, а самые обычные люди, которым довелось жить в эпоху предвоенного десятилетия.
Такие, как талантливый английский инженер, который оказался ключевой фигурой в смертельно опасной игре немецких шпионов и турецких спецслужб. Или такие, как предприимчивый лондонский журналист, попытавшийся расследовать таинственное исчезновение светской красавицы - и вдруг ставший мишенью террористов, задумавших раздуть пожар войны на Ближнем Востоке...

Почему романы Эрика Эмблера так популярны? Почему они неподвластны времени и даже сейчас, спустя более полувека после написания, читаются с неослабевающим интересом? Дело не столько в стиле этих произведений, сколько в необычности их героев. Они - не "Джеймсы Бонды", не супермены, не супершпионы и зачастую даже не профессиональные разведчики, а самые обычные люди, которым довелось жить в эпоху предвоенного десятилетия. Такие, как журналист Кентон, в жизни пистолета в руках не державший, но ухитрившийся ввязаться в опасный поединок европейских разведок. Или такие, как любопытный английский писатель Чарльз Латимер, на собственный страх и…

Почему романы Эрика Эмблера так популярны? Почему они неподвластны времени и даже сейчас, спустя более полувека после написания, читаются с неослабевающим интересом? Дело не столько в стиле этих произведений, сколько в необычности их героев. Они - не "Джеймсы Бонды", не супермены, не супершпионы и зачастую даже не профессиональные разведчики, а самые обычные люди, которым довелось жить в эпоху предвоенного десятилетия. Одни действительно работают на спецслужбы, другие - просто оказываются случайными участниками Большой игры. Они не лишены человеческих слабостей и способны как на ошибки и просчеты, так и на незаурядные проявления ума и…

Winner of the Edgar Award, Eric Ambler’s autobiography Here Lies is an intriguing look inside the mind of one of our greatest thriller writers. Here the famously recalcitrant Ambler peels back the layers of experience that affected his life with the same skill he uses to unfold the plots of his novels. His South London childhood; his brief engineering career, which he gave up to work in theater; his time as an advertising copywriter; the publication of his revolutionary spy novels in the 1930s and ’40s, including such early classics as A Coffin for Dimitrios and Journey into Fear; his service in the film division of the British War Office during World War II, which allowed him to write his first screenplays; and his postwar renown as the leading writer in the genre on both sides of the Atlantic. In these pages this masterful spy novelist has composed a compelling and insightful examination of his life.

English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when he makes the acquaintance of Turkish police inspector Colonel Haki. It is from him that he first hears of the mysterious Dimitrios - an infamous master criminal, long wanted by the law, whose body has just been fished out of the Bosphorus. Fascinated by the story, Latimer decides to retrace Dimitrios' steps across Europe to gather material for a new book. But, as he gradually discovers more about his subject's shadowy history, fascination tips over into obsession. And, in entering Dimitrios' criminal underworld, Latimer realizes that his own life may be on the line.

A coup d'etat in a Caribbean state causes a political storm in the region and even the seemingly impassive and impersonal Doctor Castillo, nicknamed Doctor Frigo, cannot escape the consequences. As things heat up, Frigo finds that both his profession and life are horribly at risk.

It is Syria in 1970, three years after the Six Days War. Michael Howell was utterly apolitical and genetically programmed for survival, a Levantine of mixed origin who possessed profitable business enterprises throughout the Middle East and an Italian mistress as his office manager. Life was sweet for Michael Howell until, one night in Damascus, he discovered that his factories had become the clandestine operations base of the Palestine Action Force, a fanatical terrorist organization dead-set on destroying Israel. Suddenly, Howell is caught in the middle with nowhere to run. Eric Ambler is the recipient of four Gold Dagger Awards and one…

In this classic thriller, two American tourists find more adventure than they bargained for when they get involved with Chinese gun smugglers and Muslim revolutionaries, learning first hand about the intrigue of the post-colonial world. Greg and Dorothy Nilsen had wanted to go on an adventurous trip, see some of the more out-of-the-way places. But the cruise they were on was turning out to be a bore. So when the gracious Mr. Tan requests that Greg take a side trip to Singapore to resolve a bureaucratic detail involving a consignment of small arms, Greg is surprisingly receptive. All he has to do is sign some papers, he’s told, and he’ll…

Герой известного английского мастера остросюжетной прозы Артур Абдель Симпсон, журналист без гражданства и постоянной работы, от безысходности совершает необдуманные и рискованные поступки, и только изрядное везение спасает его от тюрьмы, когда он перевозит оружие через турецкую границу (`Свет дня`), а также помогает избежать ареста по обвинению в совращении девушек (`Грязная история`).

Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul boîte, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with plans for a Turkish defense system, the seductive cabaret dancer and her manager husband, and a number of surprising allies. Thrilling, intense, and masterfully plotted, Journey Into Fear is a classic suspense tale from one of the founders of the genre.

Nicky Marlow needs a job. He s engaged to be married and the employment market is pretty slim in Britain in 1937. So when his fiance points out the Spartacus Machine Tool notice, he jumps at the chance. After all, he speaks Italian and he figures he ll be able to endure Milan for a year, long enough to save some money. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth of his predecessor s death and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas. In the process, Marlow realizes it s not so simple to just do the job he s paid to do in fascist Italy on the eve of a world war."

В сборник включены детективные романы «Тридцать девять ступенек» шотландского писателя Джона Бёкана (1875—1940) и «Маска Димитриоса» англичанина Эрика Амблера (р.1909). В каждом из них раскрываются шпионские заговоры, направленные на физическое устранение политических деятелей перед началом мировой войны 1914—1918 гг. и в 20—30-е годы нашего века. Повествование ведется от лица авторов — не просто наблюдателей событий, но и невольных их участников.

Герой обвиненный в шпионаже, доказывая свою непричастность, разоблачает настоящего шпиона (Э. Амблер "Эпитафия для шпиона"); необычные приключения "благородных Шахраев" (Р. Айрт "Похищение!"); офицер полиции, обвинен в убийстве, распутывает заговор мафии (М. Спиллейн "Сладкий запах смерти") - таковы темы детективов, вошедших в этот сборник.

В девятнадцатый выпуск серии "Зарубежный детектив" вошли романы Э.Эмблера "Необычная опасность" и Д.X.Чейза "Я буду смеяться последним".

Предлагаем вашему вниманию романы известных авторов "Наследники" и "Эпитафия шпиону".

В серии "Зарубежный детектив" выходит остросюжетный детективный роман Эрика Эмблера «Яркий свет дня».

В издание также вошла пьеса А.Безика «Институт невозможных изобретений».