Mike,
Re your questions below:
> i made my weekly pilgrimage to the local
bookstore
> last
> night. i saw a couple authors who looked
> interesting
> but i don't know anything about them. they are
eric
> ambler and michael dibdin. anybody know
anything
> about
> or read these authors? one of the dibdin
titles,
> _rat-
> king_, appealed to me. sounds
hardboiled/noir.
Eric Ambler was a titan of the espioange novel. In fact, he
could almost be called the Father of the Modern Spy Novel.
Typically, his heroes were not professional agents, but
ordinary types who got mixed up in spy plots through a series
of unexpected circumstances. I wouldn't call them
hard-boiled, but they're usually damned good. He won one
Edgar for a non-espionage caper novel, THE LIGHT OF DAY,
which became the movie TOPKAPI, and two Golden Daggers for
STATE OF SIEGE and THE LEVANTER.
Dibidin writes cop novels set in Italy. His series character
is a Roman detective named Arelio Zen. RATKING won a Golden
Dagger for Best Novel. I found it a bit dry for my taste and
haven't been moved to seek out other Zen books, but you may
like him.
JIM DOHERTY
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