Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat is an episodic World War I novel written by E. Phillips Oppenheim that was first published as a serial in 1916, before the United States had joined the conflict, and then as a book in 1920. The plot of the novel revolves around World War One, Mr. Ambrose Lavendale, a young English-American ambassador, quits the embassy to act as a secret agent in London. He runs into Mlle. The French employee Suzanne de Frayne is observing a scientist who has created the formula for a deadly gas bomb. The two discover German spies, thwart schemes to steal ammunition from the Allies, steal secret weaponry, and fall in love in a series of interconnected episodes. The protagonist of the next-to-last story experiences the repercussions of submarine warfare on American ships. To know the ending of this story readers should go through the book that will generate interest to read it!
E. Phillips Oppenheim was born on October 22, 1866, in Tohhenham, London, England, to Henrietta Susannah Temperley Budd and Edward John Oppenheim, a leather retailer. After leaving school at age 17, he helped his father in his leather business and used to write in his extra time. His first novel, Expiration (1886), and subsequent thrillers piqued the interest of a wealthy New York businessman who eventually bought out the leather business and made Oppenheim a high-paid director.He is more focused on dedicating most of his time to writing. The novels, volumes of short stories, and plays that followed, numbering more than 150, were about humans with modern heroes, fearless spies, and stylish noblemen. The Long Arm of Mannister (1910), The Moving Finger (1911), and The Great Impersonation (1920) are three of his most famous essays.
