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The Light of Day
- Author
- Eric Ambler
- Narrator
- Oliver Dimsdale
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 10 August 2023
- Run Time
- 7 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Espionage and spy thriller, Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic crime and mystery fiction
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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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.
'He took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul, where it all really happened' Frederick Forsyth
©2023 Eric Ambler (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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The source on which we all draw
John le Carré
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Unquestionably our best thriller writer
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Mr. Ambler is phenomenal
Alfred Hitchcock
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Ambler is, quite simply, the best
The New Yorker
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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5.0 5.0
Enthralling from start to finish.. keeps you engaged. The characters are really well developed. Believable failings of human characters. The plot unpredictable.
A great read.
Well read.hallwiton 2024-01-06
Details
- Author
- Eric Ambler
- Narrator
- Oliver Dimsdale
- Duration
- 7 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 August 2023
- ISBN
- 9781802062960
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Espionage and spy thriller, Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic crime and mystery fiction
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.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.'He took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul, where it all really happened' Frederick Forsyth©2023 Eric Ambler (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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