280 pages
English language
Published Jan. 8, 2001 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.
Background to danger
by Eric Ambler
4 stars
(6 reviews)
When the stranger offered 600 marks to do a little job, Kenyon accepted. The guy was a lying rat, but Kenyon needed the money. That little job got him involved in a deadly game of Soviets vs. Nazis, with Soviet military secrets the prize. All set in motion by a cynical force seeking a piece of the Roumanian oil fields, source of the black blood of war.
Subjects
- Orient Express (Express train) -- Fiction.
- British -- Europe -- Fiction.
- Railroad travel -- Fiction.
- Smuggling -- Fiction.
- Europe -- Fiction.