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...beach just about anywhere. Vermeule suggests Collected Stories, by Eric Ambler, or Late Innings, by Roger Angell...
...precautions are to protect the health and safety of the people," David Ambler, vice chancellor of student affairs, said, adding that they were designed to avoid another fight...
...CARE OF TIME by Eric Ambler Farrar Straus Giroux 277 pages...
After 45 years in thriller country, Eric Ambler is still the master of murk. Ironic, cerebral, smooth as vintage port, he has created an all-too-familiar world of doublecross and blackmail where the heroes are unheroic and the villains almost likable. The Care of Time is quintessential Ambler from the very first sentence: "The warning message arrived on Monday, the bomb itself on Wednesday. It became a busy week...
From his debut in the 1930s, with The Dark Frontier, Ambler set the course for the likes of John le Carre" and Robert Ludlum, who have yet to show that they can match the maestro for consistency and endurance. In The Care of Time, as in Ambler's 17 other novels, it is finally not so much the plot that grips the attention, superbly handled though it is, but the characters, all of them human and vulnerable: the flawed journalist, the fearful broker, his not quite ice-cool daughter, the sick sheik, even the attendant thugs, brass hats, cops...