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Eric Ambler - CL01 A Coffin for Dimitrios.nfo
General Information
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Title: A Coffin for Dimitrios CL01
Author: Eric Ambler
Read By: Alexander Spencer
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 12 plus PARS and info
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Bit Rate: 40 KB/s
Sample Rate: 32 KHz mono
Run Time: 08:02 h:m
Story
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Through a chance acquaintance with a senior Turkish police officer in Istanbul, Charles Latimer, a detective story writer and former university lecturer, gets to see the body of a dead man and decides (after being treated to one or two juicy excerpts from the man's dossier) to investigate his history. And so begins a journey that takes him out of his milieu and into a 'real' and dangerous underworld.
I rarely get sucked into reading novels more than once, but this was an exception. Why? Well, I've thought of two reasons.
The first is that, as a story, it's totally spellbinding. Like all good stories, it tells itself. Once Latimer is hooked on his investigation, so are you. We follow him every step of the way. We get to sense all his anxieties, his self-justifications, his decisions that aren't really decisions. And like him, all we can really do is wait for the whole adventure to unreel, which it does at a nicely tense and unhurried pace.
The second reason is that despite having all the tension and excitement of a thriller, that isn't really, or isn't only, what the book is. It's in fact (rather like a 'proper' novel) a study of people, who they really are, who they think they are, and what it is that really motivates them. The characters are deliciously unheroic. They're people who get themselves into messes, which they may or may not be able to get out of. They're intellectually and morally flawed. They're real.
Ambler was young when he wrote this book and you get the sense that in it he is confronting the issue that the world (and everyone in it)is uglier than we are deceived into believing. Latimer, out of his world, becomes a dreamy idealist suddenly scrambling around in the dirt. The conflict is wonderfully perceived and comes with a final 'ironic suggestion' - that the only way to survive such ugliness is to pretend that it doesn't exist. It is this conflict, I feel, that gives the novel the electricity and charm which is absent from Ambler's later work.
There are other early Ambler novels with wonderful sequences but the novels themselves, although in their way just as intriguing, are not so well structured and are not driven by such a powerful narrative. This one, for me, is his masterpiece. It is staggering (and slightly disturbing)to think that until recently in the UK it was out of print.
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