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Waiting for Orders

(1991)
(The Story So Far)
A collection of stories by

 
 
WAITING FOR ORDERS is a collection of the author's shorter works, written in 1929-1940 as Ambler, already a successful suspense novelist, waited for his call to military duty.

Included in WAITING FOR ORDERS are "The Army of Shadows," his earliest published short story; "The Intrusions of Dr. Czissar," a collection of detective stories; and "The Blood Bargain," a short story that the author abandoned and then came back to in 1970.

"Quite simply the best." (The New Yorker)


Genre: Mystery

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