The Lives of Carruthers

Image created using Canva’s AI tool PART I PART II PART III Intermission: Carruthers Ex Machina Eric Ambler had fun parodying the spy thriller in The Dark Frontier , but he was also making a point about its constraints: geopolitics in 1936 were much more complex than were usually considered in the genre. Ambler illustrated this by creating a meta-thriller in which a physicist takes on the identity…