by Eric Ambler · ISBN 9782020069731
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«Épitaphe pour un espion» is Eric Ambler's spy novel published by Seuil in the Points collection, in paperback.
On the eve of World War II, Josef Vadassy hopes to rest at a hotel on the Riviera before returning to Paris. When he develops the roll of film dropped off at a pharmacy in St. Gatien, photos appear that he did not take; suspected of espionage, he discovers that the other guests are also hiding something.
French translation by François Rivière of the English original Epitaph for a Spy (1938). Paperback edition in the Points collection. Roman, R169.
For readers of classic spy novels and interwar thrillers, with mounting tension and a French Riviera setting.
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).
