5 books
Graham Greene
In 1935, Greene, thirty and with no relevant experience whatsoever, walked across the interior of Liberia with his twenty-three-year-old cousin Barbara, a cook, and a line of carriers, on a route where the map said nothing but “Cannibals.” They spent…
Graham Greene
Wormold sells vacuum cleaners in Havana, has a teenage daughter with expensive tastes, and no money. The British intelligence service recruits him to spy, but having nothing to report, and no spying experience, he invents a network of agents out…
Graham Greene
It’s Saigon in the early fifties, the French war going badly. Fowler is a British reporter, middle-aged, opium in the afternoons, living with a young Vietnamese woman named Phuong and determined to have no opinions about anything. Pyle is a…
Graham Greene
It’s set in a German prison in occupied France, with thirty hostages, three to be shot, lots drawn to see who goes. Chavel, a wealthy lawyer, draws one of the marked slips and offers everything he owns — house, money,…
Graham Greene
Vienna after the war, the city carved into four occupation zones and half of it rubble. Rollo Martins, a broke writer of pulp westerns, arrives to take a job from his old friend Harry Lime and finds Lime’s funeral instead.…
