The Dark Frontier

The Dark FrontierBy: Eric Ambler The Dark Frontier launched Eric Amblers five decade career as one of the most influential thriller writers of our time. England, 1935. Physicist Henry Barstow is on holiday when he meets the mysterious Simon Groom, a representative for an armaments manufacturer. Groom invites the professor to Ixania, a small nation state in Eastern Europe whose growing weapons program threatens to destabilize the region. Only after suffering a blow to

By: Eric Ambler    

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The Dark Frontier launched Eric Ambler’s five-decade career as one of the most influential thriller writers of our time.
 
England, 1935. Physicist Henry Barstow is on holiday when he meets the mysterious Simon Groom, a representative for an armaments manufacturer. Groom invites the professor to Ixania, a small nation-state in Eastern Europe whose growing weapons program threatens to destabilize the region. Only after suffering a blow to the head—which muddles his brain into believing he is Conway Carruthers, international spy—does the mild-mannered physicist agree to visit Ixania. But he quickly recognizes that Groom has a more sinister agenda, and Carruthers is the only man who can stop him.