Eric Ambler
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Emerging from a South-East London family of puppeteers and music-hall performers, he first pursued engineering at what is now City, University of London before turning to advertising copy and eventually playwriting. His breakthrough came with a series of espionage thrillers that placed ordinary men in dangerous conspiracies, most famously a 1939 novel that was filmed in 1944 and a 1962 work that e…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources