A Kind of Anger by Eric Ambler Paperback Book 9780241606179

A thriller of the highest quality ironic witty literate ingenious understated and unflaggingly suspenseful The New York Times Book ReviewThe last time anyone saw Lucia Bernardi she was driving at top speed away from a Swiss villa leaving the body of her murdered Iraqi lover behind Now she has vanished along with a potentially explosive set of papers and disgraced journalist Piet Maas has been sent to follow her trail to the South of France But finding her is just the start of his problems Soon amid a cast of con men secret agents and revolutionaries he must decide whether to land the scoop of his lifetime or follow Lucia into ever more dangerous waters