Dirty Story (Ambler)

This article is about the thriller. For the play, see Dirty Story.

Dirty Story is a 1967 novel by Eric Ambler. The book continues the story of Ambler's anti-hero, the half-caste petty criminal Arthur Abdel Simpson who took part in a daring Istanbul robbery in Ambler's earlier The Light of Day. In this book, Simpson takes up a career as a mercenary for a cynical mining company in Central Africa. Simpson is a misfit unsuited for the role of mercenary, yet he manages to outwit his far tougher professional colleagues, and to keep the reader's sympathy as an engaging rogue.