The Care of Time by Eric Ambler (1981, Hardcover)

The Care of Time
by Eric Ambler
Publisher:  Farrar Straus Giroux
Copyright 1981
Book Club Edition

Eric Ambler is, for all intents and purposes, the inventor of the modern spy thriller.  With The Care of Time, Ambler once again demonstrates his preeminence.  From its superb beginning ("The warning message arrived on Monday, the bomb itself on Wednesday.  It became a busy week") to its explosive, violent finale, the tension never lets up.  The book is a gripping, assured performance and one of the finest works of Ambler's career.

The narrator is Robert Halliday, an American ghostwriter with good reason to dislike both the CIA and the Iraqis.  He is blackmailed by Zander, a shadowy international middleman, into helping broker a delicate negotiation between NATO and the "Ruler," a Persian Gulf sheik of great power and questionable sanity.  But if time is running out for the "Ruler," it is also taking care of Zander, who, as the novel unfolds, turns out to have more than one interest at stake.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages are tanned and darkening from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  Dust cover and flaps are tanned from age.  Dust cover shows a bit of edge wear and tear and creasing.

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