The Night-Comers
A mining engineer in a collapsing Southeast Asian republic finds himself holding the wrong secret.
Eric Ambler’s thriller, published in the United States as State of Siege, strands an ordinary professional in the middle of a coup he does not understand and cannot escape. Ambler wrote the reluctant civilian caught in political violence long before it was a convention, and he is a direct precursor of le Carre.
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Tyler Cowen
Eric Ambler, The Night-Comers. (U.S. editions are sometimes titled State of Siege.) Think of Ambler as a precursor of Le Carré. I used to think he had one or two excellent works, now I am realizing his ouevre is much deeper than I had imagined. He was a favorite of Graham Greene’s, and I will read yet more by him.
Source · October 2023
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