The Light Of Day
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage — edges frayed and creasing visible, particularly at the top corners and spine; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: No visible markings noted. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A masterwork of suspense fiction, The Light of Day follows Arthur Abdel Simpson, a small-time crook and reluctant spy who finds himself coerced into working for British intelligence after being caught smuggling in Istanbul. What begins as a simple job quickly spirals into a high-stakes heist plot involving a gang of international criminals with their sights set on the Topkapi Palace treasury. Eric Ambler crafts a tightly wound thriller with darkly comic undertones, narrated by one of crime fiction's most wonderfully unreliable and self-serving protagonists. The novel captures the seedy glamour of Cold War-era Turkey with atmospheric precision, earning Ambler the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and later inspiring the classic 1964 film Topkapi.
Author: Eric Ambler
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, Heinemann
Genre: Thriller
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage — edges frayed and creasing visible, particularly at the top corners and spine; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: No visible markings noted. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A masterwork of suspense fiction, The Light of Day follows Arthur Abdel Simpson, a small-time crook and reluctant spy who finds himself coerced into working for British intelligence after being caught smuggling in Istanbul. What begins as a simple job quickly spirals into a high-stakes heist plot involving a gang of international criminals with their sights set on the Topkapi Palace treasury. Eric Ambler crafts a tightly wound thriller with darkly comic undertones, narrated by one of crime fiction's most wonderfully unreliable and self-serving protagonists. The novel captures the seedy glamour of Cold War-era Turkey with atmospheric precision, earning Ambler the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and later inspiring the classic 1964 film Topkapi.