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Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul boîte, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with plans for a Turkish defense system, the seductive cabaret dancer and her manager husband, and a number of surprising allies. Thrilling, intense, and masterfully plotted, Journey Into Fear is a classic suspense tale from one of the founders of the genre.

La croisière de l'angoisse: roman

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1939. Charles Latimer est un auteur anglais de romans policiers. En voyage en Turquie, il fait la connaissance du colonel Haki qui, discutant des différences entre fiction et réalité, lui parle de Dimitrios, un criminel recherché dans plusieurs états, dont la police vient d'apporter le cadavre à la morgue.Fasciné par son histoire, Latimer se met en quête du passé trouble de Dimitrios, qui ferait un personnage tout désigné pour un futur roman. Dans le train qui le conduit à Sofia, Latimer est accosté par un homme antipathique, M. Peters.Le lendemain, Peters le menace d'une arme dans sa chambre d'hôtel, car il s'intéresse aussi à Dimitrios...

Le Masque de Dimitrios

English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when he makes the acquaintance of police inspector Colonel Haki. It is from him that he first hears of the mysterious Dimitrios - an infamous master criminal, long wanted by the law, whose body has just been fished out of the Bosphorus. Fascinated by the story, Latimer decides to retrace Dimitrios's steps across Europe to gather material for a new book. But, as he gradually discovers more about his subject's shadowy history, fascination tips over into obsession. And, in entering Dimitrios's criminal underworld, Latimer realizes that his own life may be on the line.

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