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Title: The Schirmer Inheritance by ERIC AMBLER ISBN: 0-375-72676-4 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not Ambler's Best
Comment: I am a huge fan of Eric Ambler. I have read all of the recent Ambler re-issues put out by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard and I think this is his weakest book. I would recommend it to an Ambler fan but it is not the best book to start with.
Although the story is good, it has none of the over the top flair of A Coffin for Dimitrios or Journey into Fear nor any of the weirdness of Judgement on Deltchev. In style, this book reminds me more of Epitaph for a Spy. It is a good procedural type story but the ultimate pay off just was not there for me.
Eric Ambler is a master of espionage genre. Even his weaker efforts are a lot better than most of the books coming out today.
Rating: 5
Summary: Realistic and best Ambler
Comment: As one with guerrilla warfare experience,this story rings a bell. The descriptions of professionals and others in the disintegrating Greek Communist Vafiades-led ELAS Guerrillas of the late 1940s is striking. The plot twists are excellent, a are the brilliant thumbnail descrriptions of chaaracters, an Ambler forte. As a longtime Ambler devote, I feel this is his best mystery novel. Ringokid6
Rating: 5
Summary: want to write an adventure story? Read Schirmer first.
Comment: Ambler had developed the modern spy novel in the 1930s, then took time off from novel writing for army service in WWII. During the war, several of his early novels were made into Hollywood films he detested. When he resumed his output of novels in the early 50s, it would seem he had determined to exercise a degree of control over the eventual movies his stories might become by writing with a simple, vivid, forcefulness that no movie adapter could misinterpret or screw up. The prologue to Schirmer Inheritance is breathtaking in the speed and skill in which you are swept up into the story of the wounded Prussian cavalry sergeant, Franz Schirmer, who deserts during a retreat from a battle against Napolean. Fast forward 140 years to a Philadelphia law firm which is attempting to find heirs to the considerable estate of an elderly, childless woman, who turns out to be a descendant of the Prussian sergeant. A young associate at the firm is sent off to Germany to look for relatives and discovers that the only possible relative was last seen alive in 1945 in a Wehrmacht truck convey which was attacked on a Greek mountain road by partisans. No survivors were ever found including the NCO in charge of the convoy, Sgt. Franz Schirmer. The lawyer travels to Greece and Yugoslavia to try to get more definite proof of death which will satisfy the Pennsylvania Probate Court. The plot twists are ingenious without seeming contrived. The writing, as I said, is vivid. Schirmer Inheritance should be read in every college course on the modern English novel as a model of excitement with economy.
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Title: State of Siege by ERIC AMBLER ISBN: 0375726772 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Judgment on Deltchev by Eric Ambler ISBN: 0375726756 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler ISBN: 0375713247 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Journey Into Fear by Eric Ambler ISBN: 0375726721 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler ISBN: 0375726748 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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