"A picture of Southeast Asia, in all its color and the savagery of its current turmoil” – New York Times Passage of Arms is a tale of ‘innocents abroad’, featuring American tourists in the Far East who learn at first hand about the intrigue of the post-colonial world. Greg and Dorothy Nilsen find themselves in great danger after getting mixed up with Chinese gun smugglers and Muslim revolutionaries seeking to benefit from a cache of arms abandoned by Communist insurgents in the Malayan jungle. Taking in locations from Singapore to Indonesia, Passage of Arms is a fast-paced thriller by English author and screenwriter Eric Clifford Ambler (1909 – 1998). Published by The Reprint Society in 1960. Good condition. Dust jacket sunned on spine.