
Passage of Arms
#1300 of 8,085 books · #387 in Crime & Thriller
Won the Gold Dagger Award (CWA Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year) (1959).
An Indian clerk, Girija Krishnan, sees the opportunity of his lifetime when he stumbles on an abandoned cache of arms hidden in the Malayan jungle. If he can sell the weapons, he will be able to achieve his lifelong dream of owning a bus company - although the penalty for gun-running is death. Soon his decision becomes the catalyst for a chain of events involving an entrepreneurial Chinese family, a corrupt Colonel and, finally, a naïve couple of American tourists who find themselves horribly out of their depth.
- Publisher
- Random House
- ISBN-13
- 9781802061239
- Topics
Awards
Other awarded books from Eric Ambler
- The Light of Day (2023)1 win · 11 score
- The Levanter (2012)1 win · 8 score
- Dirty Story (2023)0 wins · 3 score
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