A Good Spy novel

Finding this novel on the shelf was a serendipitous moment. Since I like to read Alan Furst, the modern novelist who writes about World War II Europe, I checked into Eric Ambler, one of the best novelist of World War II who wrote during the war. A prolific writer from England, he was well traveled. He wrote this book, Journey Into Fear in the winter of 1939 at the age of thirty. In Jouney into Fear, an engineer gets caught up in espionage, but is not a professional. His experience as a screenwriter helped with this novel, as I could see the story being a good one for a film. And it was made into a film in 1943 with Joseph Cotton.