Eric Ambler: Cause for Alarm (USA 2011)

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Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market is pretty slim in Britain in 1937. So when his fiancé points out the Spartacus Machine Tool notice, he jumps at the chance. After all, he speaks Italian and he figures he'll be able to endure Milan for a year, long enough to save some money. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth of his predecessor's death and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas. In the process, Marlow realizes it's not so simple to just do the job he's paid to do in fascist Italy on the eve of a world war.

Eric Ambler: Cause for Alarm. Vintage Crime / Black Lizard eBook, ISBN: 9780307949943 (October, 2011), $9.99.

Eric Ambler: Cause for Alarm (UK 2009)

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Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market in Britain in 1937 is pretty slim. So when his fiancée points out the position with an English armaments manufacturer in Italy, he jumps at the chance. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth about his predecessor's departure and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas. In the process, Marlow realizes that it's not so simple just to do the job he's paid for - not in fascist Italy, on the eve of a world war.

Eric Ambler: Cause for Alarm. With an introduction by John Preston. Penguin Modern Classics, ISBN: 9780141190327 (May, 2009), 269 p., £8.99, eBook £4.99.

Eric Ambler: Cause for Alarm (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market is pretty slim in Britain in 1937. So when his fiancé points out the Spartacus Machine Tool notice, he jumps at the chance. After all, he speaks Italian and he figures he'll be able to endure Milan for a year, long enough to save some money. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth of his predecessor's death and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas. In the process, Marlow realizes it's not so simple to just do the job he's paid to do in fascist Italy on the eve of a world war.

Eric Ambler: Cause for Alarm. Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, ISBN: 9780375726743 (February, 2002), 284 p., $12.95 (?).

Eric Ambler: Cause for Alarm (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
Nicholas Marlow travelled to Milan for work at a time when political consciousness was raw and uncompromising. He left much sooner than he had intended. Marlow was no politician, merely an engineer. But the firm he worked for produced shell cases, and the shells were the instruments of war. In the circumstances disengagement was an impossibility and Marlow rapidly found himself a pawn in a subtle, ferocious power struggle.

Eric Ambler: Cause for Alarm. With an Introduction by Robert Goddard. Pan Classic Crime, ISBN: 0330396196 (April, 2000), 337 p., £5.99.