by Eric Ambler · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141190310
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«Epitaph for a Spy» is Eric Ambler's spy thriller, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian professor taking refuge in France, is enjoying a holiday on the Riviera when, developing his photos at a drugstore, he is mistaken for a Gestapo agent and accused of espionage. To prove his innocence, he must discover which of the pension's guests is the real spy, risking his job and his safety.
Originally published in 1938, it is part of the anti-fascist spy thrillers Eric Ambler wrote between 1937 and 1940. This edition belongs to the Penguin Modern Classics collection.
For spy thriller readers who want to discover a reference author, recognized by Graham Greene and John le Carré.
Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels. Also working as a screenwriter, Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books written with Charles Rodda. Ambler is notable for his novel The Light of Day (1962), which won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 1964 and which was adapted into film as Topkapi (1964).
