by Graham Greene
" ‘I get the impression that neither of you trusts the other. Why are you friends?’ ‘I told you – not friends. It’s a game. A serious game – like chess or backgammon. We swap pieces – unimportant pieces – though of course everything in a sense can lead to something important. For his friends or mine...
bookshelves: published-1988, spies, autumn-2014, tbr-busting-2014, under-1000-ratings, lit-richer, cults-societies-brotherhoods, mystery-thriller Read on September 01, 2014 Description: Victor Baxter is a young boy when a secretive stranger known simply as “the Captain” takes him from his boardin...
I know that this is Greene’s last published novel, and that many literary critics tend to ignore it, considering it as not really being a good example of the kind of writing Greene was capable of. Having read The Quiet American and The Ministry of Fear: An Entertainment, I can understand that reaso...
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