The Light of DayBy: Eric Ambler Series: Penguin Modern Classics 'He took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul, where it all really happened' Frederick Forsyth Small time hustler Arthur Abdel Simpson ekes out a living in Athens by robbing gullible tourists. But when an attempted theft backfires, he finds himself out smarted and blackmailed into driving a highly suspicious car across the border to Istanbul.