The dark frontier
By: Eric Ambler
Edition: 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black LIzard/Vintage Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780345802651
Subjects: Physicists; Fiction
Description: "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"--P. [4] of cover.