Word: amblerian
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These are only the bare bones of the plot. The author, who has also been one of the most felicitous movie scenarists of his generation (A Night to Remember, The Cruel Sea), may have developed his unerring tempo from that medium. His labyrinthine plots, however, are uniquely Amblerian. Hero Halliday, who is forced into acting as intermediary between the Ruler, the Pike and NATO intelligence, finally meets the sheik in a house above an abandoned silver mine in Austria. Though the mine is supposed to be a potential treatment center for respiratory diseases, Halliday discovers that the potentate...
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