Category: Eric Ambler

Broken Covers – Eric Ambler

On By JeffIn Art, Eric Ambler, spy, Spy art, spy fiction, spy image7 Comments

Publishers are always looking to refresh the backlist of authors and sell more copies. In the 70's the beautiful painted book covers went out of fashion and photo covers came into vogue. The UK publisher Fontana had paperback rights to many of the well known thriller writers of the time like Desmond Bagley, Alastair Maclean, …

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Spy Writers Club

On By JeffIn Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, John Le Carré, Len Deighton, Lionel Davidson, spy, spy fiction, Spy nonfiction9 Comments

The first rule of Spy Club. Don't talk about Spy Club. 12 men received the invitation. On an unseasonably cool afternoon at the end of June they made their way across England to a back room of the Savoy Hotel. They came singly or in pairs, pushing through the wooden revolving doors and strolling anonymously …

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John le Carré’s Post-Cold War Fiction – Robert Lance Snyder Interview Part Three

On By JeffIn Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming, Interview, James Bond, John Le Carré, Robert Lance Snyder, spy, spy fiction, Spy nonfiction, The Pigeon Tunnel, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Uncategorized2 Comments

We finish our discussion with Robert Lance Snyder in advance of the release of his new book, John le Carré's Post-Cold War Fiction. Read part one here. Read part two here. Jeff Quest: I’ve been working on a list of books recommended by le Carré and as a result reading many of the introductions he …

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John le Carré’s Post-Cold War Fiction – Robert Lance Snyder Interview Part Two

On By JeffIn Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, Interview, John Le Carré, Len Deighton, Lionel Davidson, Robert Lance Snyder, spy, spy fiction, spy news, Spy nonfiction, The Pigeon Tunnel, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Uncategorized3 Comments

We continue our discussion with Robert Lance Snyder in advance of the release of his new book, John le Carré's Post-Cold War Fiction.  Read part one here. Jeff Quest: Le Carré has managed to stay relevant in a way that his other contemporaries still writing, like Frederick Forsyth or Charles McCarry, haven’t. McCarry in particular released a book …

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John le Carré’s Post-Cold War Fiction – Robert Lance Snyder Interview Part One

On By JeffIn Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, Interview, John Le Carré, Robert Lance Snyder, spy fiction, Spy nonfiction, The Pigeon Tunnel, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Uncategorized4 Comments

I am pleased to welcome to the blog Dr. Robert Lance Snyder. Dr. Snyder has written the upcoming book John le Carré's Post-Cold War Fiction. I haven't read his book yet, but he has previously written The Art of Indirection in British Espionage Fiction and edited the spy fiction of Paradoxa, both of which I've …

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Favorite Things in 2016

On By JeffIn collecting, Eric Ambler, spy fiction, spy news, spy website1 Comment

Here are some of my favorite things I did or discovered in 2016 in no particular order- Slough House series - Mick Herron blew me away with his spy series. I burned through all 5 books in the series in a matter of weeks. I read an advance copy of Spook Street, out early next year …

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