A celebrity playwright is caught up in a game of intrigue in this novel from Master of Spy Fiction Eric Ambler.

Foster is the toast of London’s West End theatres, so it’s no surprise when the playwright is hired by an American newspaper to cover the high-profile trial of Yordan Deltchev for treason. But all is not as it seems and he is soon drawn into a bewildering web of plots and counter-plots. Foster knows he is a pawn…but in whose game?

Accused of membership in the sinister Officer Corps Brotherhood and of masterminding an assassination plot, Deltchev’s trial is clearly for show. But when Foster meets Madame Deltchev, the accused’s powerful wife, he becomes enmeshed in more life-threatening intrigue than he could have imagined.

Judgement on Deltchev was originally published in 1952.

PRAISE FOR ERIC AMBLER & JUDGEMENT ON DELTCHEV

‘The maestro is back again, with all his sinister magic intact.’ —The New York Times Book Review

‘Genuine excitement . . . neat, brisk and altogether admirable.’ —The New Yorker

‘Judgment on Deltchev is a haunted manse–and you’ll venture in at your peril. Once you’re there, you’ll stay till the end.’ —The New York Times

‘Vintage Ambler . . . readers of intrigue can settle under their reading lamps with a contented sigh.’ —Chicago Tribune

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