Of his short stories, Eric Ambler says 'Collected together they seemed to me to have a beginning, middle, end pattern of their own Each belonged to one of three periods of my working life' The sections are each introduced by an account of his life at that time 'Beginning' is about the nineteen thirties, as he tried to switch from advertising to writing 'middle' concerns his work in 1960s Hollywood and 'to be continued' tells of his time in Switzerland before his return to England An insight into the life and work of a master thriller writer