3 books
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…
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Cherry-Garrard was twenty-four, half blind without his glasses, and paid to join Scott’s last expedition. The title journey isn’t the pole. It’s the winter trip he made with two others to Cape Crozier to collect emperor penguin eggs, five weeks…
