Topkapi Palace's unexpected visitors

Con man Arthur Abdel Simpson approaches Harper at the airport in Athens, thinking she fits his usual victim profile. But Harper turns out to be much more than a naive victim. Soon Simpson finds himself first trying to get a suspicious car across the Turkish border, and then faced with two options presented by the police: He must cooperate with the police and betray his former colleagues, or risk going to prison. Harper and her gang of jewel thieves have other plans in Istanbul...

Considered a pioneer of contemporary suspense and espionage novels, Eric Ambler is best known for his novels about the adventures of ordinary people caught up in sinister conspiracies. Full of colorful characters, Daylight is not only one of Ambler's most entertaining novels, but also the starting point for Jules Dassin's classic 1964 film Topkapi.

"Ambler towers like a pinnacle above the imitators that followed."-Los Angeles Times

"There is not a dull paragraph in Ambler's writing." -Sunday Times

"Mr. Ambler is an extraordinary writer." -Alfred Hitchcock