"[A] complex exploration of power, responsibility, and identity in the modern high-tech world. . . . [Ambler's works are] political novels of a high order." --The Washington Post

"A rarity . . . a thriller which compels belief." --The Guardian (London)

"The best book he has written since the war. . . . It's got everything the reader can possibly want . . . beautifully done." --The Observer (London)

"Ambler is, quite simply, the best." --The New Yorker

"Although the Old Master of Intrigue had been writing for more than 35 years when [The Levanter was] first published, he most certainly had not lost his touch."--The New York Times Book Review

"The foremost thriller writer of our time." --Time

"Brilliant. . . . To see [this] ordinary man thrust into an extraordinarily difficult situation and rising to the challenge is one of the most snugly satisfying scenes in fiction." --The New York Times

"Mr. Ambler is a phenomenon!" --Alfred Hitchcock