Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 - 22 October 1998) was an influential English writer of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda
"The worstthing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the samething can be said of the most weak."