The Tenth Man
by:
Graham Greene (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780816139606 (0816139601)
Publish date: April 1st 1986
Publisher: G. K. Hall & Company
Pages no: 188
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
War,
Modern,
World War II,
Suspense
"He envied Jules: to have been able to remain ‘correct’: to have saved his self-respect by small doses of rudeness or inattention. But for him— to have remained correct would have meant death." The Tenth Man is not just a story but a moral experiment: A group of prisoners of war are told that as p...
This book you have to read for yourself. It has a great underlying suspense throughout the story that makes it a good thriller. The plot is well thought of and is even better worked out. Nothing unnecessary about things being told, but every detail in the story has his place for a reason. ...
Kind of a lost Greene novella written as a film treatment. A rich man bribes a poor man to take his place for execution and then must live with his guilt and the consequences of his cowardice.
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