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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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A Coffin for Dimitrios (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Eric Ambler

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A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads Charles Latimer, himself the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers throughout the Balkans in the years between the world wars. At first merely curious to reconstruct the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780375726712
Author:
Ambler, Eric
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York
Subject:
Espionage/Intrigue
Subject:
Smuggling
Subject:
Europe
Subject:
British
Subject:
Suspense fiction
Subject:
Railroad travel
Subject:
Orient Express
Subject:
Novelists
Subject:
Spy stories
Copyright:
2001
Edition Description:
Reissue ed.
Series:
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Publication Date:
October 9, 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
802x522x67 51
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