The Intercom Conspiracy (1969), also published as The Quiet Conspiracy / [ASIN: B00A1P2E1W ]. Academic and novelist Charles Latimer, the unlikely hero of The Mask of Dimitrios, returns thirty years later in The Intercom Conspiracy. Now a successful, bestselling author on the trail of a new book, Latimer steps in to help Theodore Carter, the hapless, hard-drinking editor of Intercom, a small, international political newspaper, investigate his bosses and the sources of the secrets he's publishing. As Latimer and Carter get closer to the truth, they realise they're jeopardising more than just their careers. ==== https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intercom_Conspiracy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Ambler ==== 'Effortless narrative... informed with a sense of how things actually work. The Intercom Conspiracy might fairly be described as a conscienceless send-up of the whole idea of secret intelligence.' - The Sunday Times. 'Much wry humour and a great knowledge of the spy racket. To be read slowly, enjoyably.' - Evening Standard. “Ambler is, quite simply, the best.” —The New Yorker. “Although the Old Master of Intrigue had been writing for more than 35 years when [The Levanter was] first published, he most certainly had not lost his touch.”—The New York Times Book Review. “The foremost thriller writer of our time.” —Time. “Brilliant. . . . To see [this] ordinary man thrust into an extraordinarily difficult situation and rising to the challenge is one of the most snugly satisfying scenes in fiction.” —The New York Times. “Mr. Ambler is a phenomenon!” —Alfred Hitchcock. [About the Author]: ERIC AMBLER (1909-1998) is widely regarded as the greatest writer of suspense stories in the English language, and as the inventor of the modern political thriller. His first novel was published in 1936 and he rapidly established a reputation as a thriller writer of extraordinary depth and originality. Ambler was described by John Le Carre as 'the source on which we all draw'. He was also an Oscar-nominated Hollywood scriptwriter.
