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...ERIC AMBLER 275 pages. Random House...
After 40 years, Novelist Eric Ambler, 68, has traded in the cloak and dagger for a trust fund and pocket calculator. Ambler's 15 earlier tales of espionage and intrigue created a shadow world of border crossings and doublecrosses that was both distinctly his own and widely (and successfully) imitated. Such younger writers as John Le Carré and Len Deighton are firmly in the Ambler tradition. The Siege of the Villa Lipp tries a new route. The most imaginative shady deals, it says, are no longer concocted by world-weary agents and conniving government bureaucrats...
...This gives us a bit of confidence," said seventh-place finisher Karla Ambler...
...novel of all time by the readers of Locust, a New York City-based "fanzine," ahead of classics like Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. It is good popular fiction; by which I mean it rates with the best of Eric Ambler...
What's more, Ambler has something that I've never encountered in a one-author marathon. Most prolific scribes have annoying catch-phrases that they use over and over, or favorite weird words. You get to feel you're on to them. But Ambler has the effortless writing skill of a British education. His style is sure and undistracting--it goes down easier than lemonade in August. By the gallon...